I hit this issue while cloning a vision instance I had setup on my laptop under VirtualBox to a new VM on my new ESXi host 🙂 If you search metalink for this, you will get a direct hit. Oracle Note ID: 1431581.1. The note explains that the issue is caused due to “high […]
Well, it so happens that I started a recently upgraded 11.2.0.4 DB and got this error. It also meant that the DB wouldn’t mount. It turns out that the default ORA_NLS10 variable to set to a wrong value (I am suspecting EBS autoconfig, but this research is still pending). Setting […]
Often, as a DBA you get dragged into the mess that a developer has brought upon themselves. It so happened that a critical project deliverable was dependent on the ability to fetch data using URL.HTTP_REQUEST, and the target URL was a secure one (HTTPS). Now, HTTP and HTTPS is all […]
