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This wait event is connected to heterogeneous services. Whenever we do something on a HS system from our Oracle session, we need to wait for remote system to do it’s work and produce a response. For Oracle it is an idle event as it’s not Oracle who does the work. However it should be remembered … Read more
When buying a bicycle it is extremely important to choose right geometry. It may not be felt at first but in the long rides when parts of the body are subjected to constant stress, seven small maladjustments can appear in really painful form. Most common of these is the back pain that can be felt … Read more
There is a simple way in linux to convert text files from one characterset to another. A command named iconv: iconv –to-code=ISO-8859-2 –from-code=UTF-8 my_utf8.txt > my_iso.txt
If your laptop’s overheating and it’s fan is producing more noise then usual then perhaps it’s time to clean it’s insides. Over the time dust tends to accumulate on the inside layer of the heatsink preventing the fan to fan out all the hot air from the inside of the laptop. And thus all the … Read more
Few days ago we noticed one of our jobs in the database was not executing regularly. Job was defined through dbms_scheduler, and should be running each day. However it did not. Looking on the Enterprise Manager we could see that the job was still running from it’s last run (few days ago). That would explain … Read more