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How to write to a CSV file using Oracle SQL*Plus

  SPOOL command  The  SPOOL  command is  unavailable  in the browser-based SQL*Plus version,  iSQL*Plus . To generate files while using iSQL*Plus, change the necessary preference settings to directly output to a file. This is accomplished using the  SPOOL  statement. While  SPOOL  is  active , SQL*PLus will store the output of any query to the specified file. Therefore, the next command to enter is  spool : spool filepath Skipping ahead slightly,  after  your query is inserted, you also need to halt  spool  so the file output is closed by using the  spool off  command: spool off Insert the query  The last step after the settings are modified and  spool  is running is to insert your query. For our simple example, we’re outputting all books from our  books  table. SELECT   title,   author FROM   authors; Don’t forget the semi-colon to close out your query statement, then enter the aforementioned  spool off  command. That’s it, you’ve generated a new text file with the results of your qu
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How To Use Patch Wizard Without Setting Up Internet Connection

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 Below  document describes the process for using Patch Wizard without setting up an Internet connection Follow the steps below to run Patch Wizard without an internet connection to generate the latest EBS Patch Recommendation Analysis or to analyze any EBS patch(es) against your current EBS Application. The infobundle is updated daily and should be refreshed/downloaded each time/day you wish to analyze patches on your EBS Environment using Patch Wizard. If you want to get the latest Oracle E-Business Suite patch recommendations: Download the Patch Information Bundle (InfoBundle) on to a system that has Internet access. The InfoBundle is generated daily, and can be downloaded from the following locations: https://updates.oracle.com/download/InfoBundleR12.zip  (for R12) or https://updates.oracle.com/download/InfoBundle11i.zip  (for 11i) From  Patch Wizard > Preferences , set up a staging directory if not already done so. Make sure the Patch Wizard can read from and write to the stagin
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CPU Patch Analysis

 Oracle CPU patch analysis Identifying the Latest Critical Patch Update for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Doc ID 2484000.1) Database Quick-Link If you only care about the database patches, this MOS note steps you through really easily. Assistant: Download Reference for Oracle Database/GI Update, Revision, PSU, SPU(CPU), Bundle Patches, Patch sets and Base Releases (Doc ID 2118136.2) https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/ Critical Patch Updates Critical Patch Updates provide security patches for supported Oracle on-premises products. They are available to customers with valid support contracts. Starting in April 2022, Critical Patch Updates are released on the third Tuesday of January, April, July, and October (They were previously published on the Tuesday closest to the 17th day of January, April, July, and October). The next four dates are: 16 April 2024 16 July 2024 15 October 2024 21 January 2025 A pre-release announcement will be published on the Thursday preceding each Cr
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How To Manage Space of The FRA in the Oracle DB

  Delete Old files connect with the target database using RMAN RMAN target / Delete the old files RMAN> delete obsolete; Remove Restore Points SQL> SELECT name, storage_size FROM gv$restore_point; Drop the restore point SQL> DROP restore point RP; Delete the archive logs RMAN> DELETE archivelog ALL Increase the Space SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET db_recovery_file_dest_size = 20G scope=both; Disable the Flashback ALTER DATABASE flashback off;
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How to autopopulate user_guid in fnd_user table ( EBS Blank Page)

  Issue:  EBS Local Login url is working fine. When accessing sso url, users are getting error as below appended to the url. And login page will be blank. One of the reason could be : OAM Authentication is fine but during authorization process, OAM is unable to map guid from oid to user_guid in fnd_user. This can be due to user_guid being null in fnd_user table. As per the process, when user logins for the first time, user_guid need to be populated automatically (from oid) Query guid from oid and update fnd_user table with that. ldapsearch -h oidhost.appsolworld.com -p 3060 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w orcladmpwd -b "cn=Users,dc=dc,dc=online,dc=org" -s sub "(uid=$1)" orclsamaccountname krbprincipalname mail orcluserprincipalname orclguid Pass userid to this command which gives guid along with other details. Update fnd_user table with above guid : update fnd_user  set user_guid=' ' where user_name like ' '; Solution:  As per the process,  when user
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How to Collect Standard Diagnostic Information Using SQLT for SQL Issues

  Gather Diagnostics with SQLT In order to gather SQLT output for the query, you will need to download and install SQLT. Download SQLT To do this, download and run the SQLT tool. You can  download SQLT here .  Install SQLT Install SQL by executing the installation script sqlt/install/sqcreate.sql connected as SYS: # cd sqlt/install # sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> START sqcreate.sql During the installation you will be asked to enter values for these parameters: Optional Connect Identifier  - In some restricted-access systems you may need to specify a connect identifier like @PROD. If a connect identifier is not needed, enter nothing and just hit the "Enter" key. SQLTXPLAIN password  - Case sensitive in most systems. SQLTXPLAIN Default Tablespace  - Select from a list of available permanent tablespaces which one should be used by SQLTXPLAIN for the SQLT repository. It must have more than 50MB of free space. SQLTXPLAIN Temporary Tablespace  - Select from a list of available tempor
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How to Disable Auto-Login Keystore

 Disable Auto-Login At times, It is required to perform some operations directly using an open password-protected keystore without auto-login keystore. To close AUTOLOGIN temporarily, we can use OPEN FORCE KEYSTORE to make password-protected open and implicitly close AUTOLOGIN keystore. SQL> administer key management set keystore open force keystore identified by "welcome1" container=all; keystore altered. Except to disable it temporarily, we can remove the auto-login keystore permanently. First of all, Let's see the location of WALLET_ROOT. SQL> show parameter wallet_root NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ wallet_root                          string      /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0                                                  /db_1/admin/ORCLCDB/wallet We should go to the location of WALLET_ROOT and check  Remove Auto-Login from Wallet [oracle@node01 ~]$ cd /u
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