1. How do you kill a session from the database?

Ans: alter system kill 'sid,serial#' Usage : alter system kill '9,8' Get the info from v$session 2. How do you know whether the process is Server Side Process? Ans. By seeing the process in ps-ef as oracle+sid eg: suppose the sid is prod, then the server process is refered as server side process and local=no 3. Daily Activities of a Oracle DBA? Ans: 1. Check the Databse availability 2. Check the Listerner availability 3. check the alert log filie for errors 4. monitoring space availablilty in tablespaces 5. monitoring mount point (see capacity planning document) 6. Validate Database backup or Archive backup 7. Find objects which is going to reach max extents 8. Database Health check 9. CPU, Processor, Memory usage 4. Where do you get all hidden parameters ? Ans: In the table x$ksppi 5. How do you see the names from that table? Ans:select ksppinm,ksppdesc from x$ksppi where substr(ksppinm,1,1)='_' 6. How do increase the count of datafiles? Ans: Generate the control file syntax from the existing control file and recrea te the control file by changing the parameter MAXDATAFILES = yourdesired size Procedure: 1. open the database 2. Generate the control file change the maxdatafiles 3. open the db in nomount 4. execute the syntax with noresetlogs 5. alter databse open 7. What is the init parameter to make use of profile? Ans: resource_limits=true 8. How do you know whether the parameter is dynamic or static Ans: By going v$parameter and check the fields isses_modifiable and issys_modifi ble 9. What is the package and procedure name to conver dmt to lmt and vice versa? Ans: exec dbms_space_admin.tablespace_migrate_from_local("gtb") exec dbms_space_admin.tablespace_migrate_to_local("gtb1") 10. What is the use of nohup? Ans: The execution of a specific task is performed in the server side with out a ny interupting Usage : nohup cp -r * /tmp/. & 11. Where alert log is stored? What is the parameter? Ans: in bdump. parameter is background_dump_dest 11. Where trace file are stored? What is the parameter? Ans: in udump. parameter is user_dump_dest

12. Common Oracle Errors 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) ORA-01555 : Snapshot Too Old ORA-01109 : Database Not Mounted ORA-01507 : Database Not Open ORA-01801 : Database already In startup mode. ORA-600 : Internal error code for oracle program Usage : oerr ORA 600

13. How do you enable traceing while you are in the database? Ans : alter session set sql_trace=true; 14. If you want to enable tracing in remote system? what will u do? Ans: exec dbms_system.SET_SQL_TRACE_IN_SESSION(9,3,TRUE); 15. Which role you grant to rman user while configuring rman user Ans: recover_catalog_owner 16. Where do you get to know the version of your oracle software and what is you r version? Ans: from v$version(field is banner) and the version is 9.2.0.1.0 17. What is the parameters to set in the init.ora if you create db using omf? Ans: db_create_file_dest= db_create_online_log_dest_1= 18. What is a runaway session? Ans: you killed a session in the database but it still remains in the os level and vice versa. Its called runaway session. If runaway session is there cpu cons umes more usage. 19. How do you know whether the specific tablespace is in begin backup mode? Ans: select status from v$backup. if it is active it means it is in begin backup mode 20. If you want to maintain one more archive destination which parameter you ha ve to set Ans:Its a dynamic parameter you have to set log_archive_duplex_dest= Usage : alter system set log_archive_duplex_dest= 21. How do you know the create syntax of your function/procedure/index/synonym Ans: using function dbms_metadata.get_ddl(object type,object name,owner) 22. What is the password you have to set in the init.ora to enable remote login ? Ans: remote_login_password_file=exclusive 23.How do u set crontab to delete 5 days old trace files at daily 10'0 clock? Ans: crontab -e 0 10 * * * /usr/bin/find /u001/admin/udump -name "*.trc" -mtime +5 -exec rm -rf {} \; save and exit (wq!) 24.How do u know when system was last booted? Ans: 3 ways 1.uptime cmd 2.top 3.who -b 4.w 24.How do u know load on system?

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25. How do you when the process is started Ans : Using ps -ef grep process name 26. Tell me the location of Unix log messages stored? Ans:/var/log/messages /var/adm/messages (solaris) 27.How do you take backup of a controlfile? Ans: alter database backup controlfille to destination (Database should be open) file will be save in the your destination 28. What is the parameter to set the user trace enabiling? Ans: sql_trace = true 29. How do you know whether archive log mode is enable or not Ans: issue command 'archive log list' in the sqlplus 30. Where do you get the information of quotas? Ans: dba_ts_quotas view 31. How do you know how much archives are generated ? Ans: using the view v$log_history 32. What is a stale? Ans: The redolog file which has not been used yet 33. How do you read the binary file? Ans: using strings -a usage : strings -a filename 34.How do you read control file? Ans: using command tkprof Usage: tkprof contrl.ctl ctrol2.txt 35. How do you send the data to tape? Ans: using 1. tar -cvf 2. cpio 36. How do you connect to db and startup and shutdown the db without having dba group? Ans: using remote_login_passwordfile 37. When will you take Cold back up especially? Ans: during upgradation and migration 38. How do you enable/disable debugging mode in unix? Ans: set -x and set +x 39. How do you get the create syntax of a table or index or function or procedur e? Ans: select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE','EMP','SCOTT') from dual; 40. How do you replace a string in vi editor? Ans: %/name/newname 41. When ckpt occurs? Ans: 1. for every 3 second

2. when 1/3rd of DB buffer fills 3. when log swtich occurs 4. when databse shuts down 42. In which file oracle inventory information is available? Ans : /etc/oraInst.loc 42. Where all oracle homes and oracle sid information available? Ans: /etc/oratab 43. What is the environment variable to set the location of the listener.ora Ans: TNS_ADMIN 44. How do you know whether listener is running or not Ans: ps -ef grep tns 45. What are the two steps involved in instace recovery? Ans: 1. Roll forward (redofiles data to datafiles) 2. Roll backward (undo files to datafiles). 46. If you delete the alert log fle what will happen? Ans: New alert log will be created automatically 57. How do you create a table in another tablespace name? Ans: create table xyz (a number) tablespace system 58. What are the modes/options in incomplete recovery? Ans: cancel based, change based, time based 59. How do you create an alias? Ans: alias bdump='cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin' 60. Types of trace files? Ans: 1. trace files generated by database (bdump) 2. trace files generated by user(udump) 61. How do you find the files whose are more than 500k? Ans : fnd . -name "*" -size +500k 62. Where do you configure your hostname in linux? Ans: vi /etc/hosts 63. What are the types of segments? Ans: Data Segment,Undo Segment,Temporary segment,Index Segment 64. What is a synonym and different types of synonyms? Ans: A synonym is an alias for a table,view, sequence or program unit. 1. Public synonym 2. private synonym 65. What are mandatory background processes in Oracle Database? Ans: smon,pmon,ckpt, 63. what is the utility to change the password of a dba schema in oracle apps? Ans: fndcpass 64. what are mandatory users in oracle apps? Ans: applsys,applsyspub,apps

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