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Shell: How to time a script running in SQLPlus and kill it after x amount of minutes?

I have a little tool which automatically runs a series of SQL scripts when and outputs to .XLS when an appropriate request is made. However, some SQL scripts need to be ran on a live database, and I ...
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script to startup oracle database [closed]

I found out below script that helps me to start up a Oracle database: set serveroutput on; WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "MY_DB" NORESETLOGS ...
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Delete shared memory segments left over by an Oracle instance

We're using Oracle Enterprise 11rR2 running on Solaris. How can I delete/remove allocated shared memory segments using ipcrm? I'm getting this error: ORA-01041: internal error. hostdef extension ...
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How to check if Oracle DB process is running in Unix and where Oracle DB is installed

I am new to Unix and trying to find out a command that checks if Oracle DB is installed in my Unix box. I came across commands ps -ef|grep smon and ps -ef|grep pmon in net. But which is the correct ...
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DBA group in Linux

When we need to install Oracle database in Linux then the user should be in dba group. What is this group and why the user should be in this group for installing Oracle database. What happens if the ...
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which process has created a load spike on my server last week?

O.S.:Linux MYSQL server we got a load spike last week. how can I find the process that has created the load spike on my server last week.
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Question about Oracle's interpretation of “host cpu utilization” in v$sysmetric view

I am studying the v$sysmetric view from Oracle and trying to understand what is Oracle's interpretation of "Host CPU Utilization" It says in the metric_unit as % busy/(idle + busy), but what is busy? ...
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how to install zabbix agent in agent host which we are adding from server to monitor

following this site i have intsalled zabbix server and agent in centos 6.0 zabbix version :1.8.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfYm-3thRM but i am unable to add agent that is how to add other ...
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Perl vs Ksh for Unix Database Administration

I realize this is a somewhat more subjective question, but I am looking to the community for guidance. Our company is fairly new to having DBAs. We used to use DB2 for i on the IBM's iSeries servers, ...