Database Locking

How to identify lockers This article will explain about locks on rows and on objects in ORACLE. Locks on rows can cause performance problems or even impede a transaction from finishing, when there are processes running for long time we need to validate that they are not waiting on a row(s). When there is a … Read more

RMAN Backup with Python

I want to start using Python to perform my backups. Here is a simple script to perform it. Insde both the Incremental_backup.cmd and Full_backup.cmd, you can put any rman commands you like. Archive log backup archivelog all delete all input; backup current controlfile; delete noprompt expired archivelog all; delete noprompt obsolete; Incremental level 0 backup … Read more

Automatic Shrink

The company I work for would rebuild their tables and indexes every quarter, this did cause some concern for me and they were adamant that this needed to be done. I compromised and came up with this script.