Category Archives: ORACLE

Error unable to allocate 4160 bytes of shared memory

This note apply to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition – Version 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 Symptoms: The system appears to be running very slowly and defunct processes can appear. Errors are seen in the alert log or Trace log : 1. ORA-04031 ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4160 bytes of shared memory (“shared pool”,”unknown object”,”sga heap(1,0)”,”modification “) Incident […]

How to create textual index with phoneme

  First of all you need create one user (schema to test), in this example the user is scott and the language example is PORTUGUESE. 1. Grant permissions to scott with sys user : GRANT EXECUTE ON CTXSYS.CTX_ADM TO SCOTT; GRANT EXECUTE ON CTXSYS.CTX_CLS TO SCOTT; GRANT EXECUTE ON CTXSYS.CTX_DDL TO SCOTT; GRANT EXECUTE ON […]

How To Setup ASM & ASMLIB On Native Linux Multipath Mapper disks

This note apply to Oracle Database using ASM and linux S.O.   After installed and configured the Multipath, follow bellow: 1. Download and Install ASMLIB : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linux/asmlib/index-101839.html   2. Check the disks : ls -l /dev/mapper brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 46 Jul 27 17:19 Prod_Orcl01 brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 67 Jul 27 17:59 […]

Be careful when migrating – Difference between oracle 10g and 11g

All of DBAs know about new features of Oracle Database 11g, but here will expose of the possible problems to migrate. This note apply to Oracle Database 11g Release 2. New Features: ASM Fast Mirror Resync, a snapshot standby database is a fully updatable standby, Data Recover Advisor automatically diagnoses data failures, Improved Block Corruption […]

Error Messages ORA-29250 to ORA-32775

ORA-29250 to ORA-32775   ORA-29250: Invalid index specifed in call to dbms_sql.bind_array Cause: An invalid index was specified in a call to bind_array of dbms_sql. The index may have been null or of an improper value. Action: Correct the index value by modifying your PL/SQL program and try the bind_array call again. ORA-29251: Index1 is […]

Error Messages ORA-24280 to ORA-28674

ORA-24280 to ORA-28674   ORA-24280: invalid input value for parameter string Cause: The parameter has been provided a negative, out of range, or NULL input value. Action: Correct the input value such that it is valid, and is within the range as specified in the documentation. ORA-24281: invalid access past the maximum size of LOB […]

Error Messages ORA-19400 to ORA-24276

ORA-19400 to ORA-24276   ORA-19400: System type conflict with object SYS.string Cause: The user had an object with the same name as one of the system types. The system types were not initialized properly. Action: Remove the conflicting object and rerun migration. ORA-19500: device block size string is invalid Cause: the device block size returned […]

Error Messages ORA-12700 to ORA-19380

ORA-12700 to ORA-19380   ORA-12700: invalid NLS parameter value (string) Cause: An invalid or unknown NLS configuration parameter was specified. Action: none ORA-12701: CREATE DATABASE character set is not known Cause: The character set specified when creating the database is unknown. Action: none ORA-12702: invalid NLS parameter string used in SQL function Cause: An unknown […]

Error Messages ORA-00000 to ORA-00832

ORA-00000 to ORA-00832   ORA-00000: normal, successful completion Cause: Normal exit. Action: None. ORA-00001: unique constraint (string.string) violated Cause: An UPDATE or INSERT statement attempted to insert a duplicate key. For Trusted Oracle configured in DBMS MAC mode, you may see this message if a duplicate entry exists at a different level. Action: Either remove […]