Oracle Apps DBA Realtime Interview Questions

Hey DBA-mates,

When we prepared for the oracle dba interviews, we all need guidance for preparing interviews especially when we are fresher and going for any MNC companies such as ORACLE, CISCO, IBM, TCS, WIPRO etc...

That time we need to prepare the important questions and answers which we do in our college life hheheh and we start to search in Google for important dba interviews Questions and Answers. We read that and go for interviews.

But if you are fresher then you will not understand the stuffs correctly and you will not able to answers of the questions. And in MNC they will ask as per their working experiences.

Even I also used to do same things during my struggling time. Hey these words may hurt you but it is true. It is very hard to get chance without any experiences. We have to struggle and win it. We everyone do it. Only some lucky people get chance easily.

If you really want to test yourself, Please try these below questions which are very important for especially for MNC companies. Even these questions are for experienced DBAs also.

1). Let me know the flow of application when user login?

2). What is the purpose of authentication to connect todatabase?

3). Why u need GUEST/ORACLE to connect to database?

4). What is the purpose of JSERV?

5). How to increase the performance of Apache?

6). Tell me some issues with Apache?

7). Why you need httpd.pid? Why you need to clear that?

8). How do you increase the jvm size?

9). What is JVM?

10). If One of our dba can launch the forms and another unable to launch the forms? What will be the issue?

11). How to set trace at forms level?

12). If u have Concurrent request with pending–standby how do you troubleshoot?

13). If you have long pending requests and system become slow what you do?

14). How autoconfig works?

15). What Concurrent Tables that will cleanup when u run cmclean.sql?

16). What is PCP configuration? What is the use behind it? How to you configured?

17). What is diff between distributed AD and Shared APPL_TOP? What happens when u apply patch and distributed AD and Shared APPL_TOP?

18). What happens if you Miss Pre-Req patch and apply main patch and how to do continue?

19). How to do you skip a worker?

Hope this may useful and helpful. We have some more which we will post very soon as per real time experiences very important Questions and Answers. Please let us know for any concerns or suggestions through either comments box or Contact Us +ORA-DATA All the BEST DBA-mates.

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ora-data Team.

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel Fixed and Troubleshooting

Hi Friends,

Recently we faced this issue which was very critical. It is very general ora alert which almost time we can ignore but sometimes it is very critical which I have mentioned below the criticality.

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

This error can occur at the time such as:

1. While we are starting the oracle database.

2. While making any connection with database.

3. While running any SQL/PLSQL queries.

4. While mounting the database.

5. While recovering the database.

6. While opening database through Alter command.

7. While connecting as SYSDBA.

This error ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel occurs while a client process trying to connect a oracle database.

Above alert can be because of Network issue also.

Or may be server process was killed by some other users at OS level.

This can cause other ora alerts also such as: ora-1041, ora-3114, ora-1012 etc.

These all are like disconnection of the client from oracle database.

Here, I will show you as example while startup the oracle database we faced this below issue:

SQL> startup

ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 2147483648 bytes

Fixed Size 2926472 bytes

Variable Size 1224738936 bytes

Database Buffers 905969664 bytes

Redo Buffers 13848576 bytes

Database mounted.

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

Process ID: 1919

Session ID: 326 Serial number: 62214

There may be many reasons as below:

1. May be redo log file system has full; and there is 0% space free.

Solution: 

For this, we can clean up the old redo log file system and again startup the database.

OR

We can move the old redo logs file system to new location file system by which there space can available and we can try to startup the database.

If above check is fine then we can check the alert log, from there we can check the exact error. And will be helpful for future investigations.

In case, If getting error during the connecting as SYSDBA then need to check below points such as:

1. Check for environments file properly.

2. Check for LD_LIBRARY_PATH entries and setting should be properly.

3. Check for correct ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME path.

4. And may be needed to check some more as per alert log error and details.

And others many more may also reason... for more info: Doc ID 1506805.1

Hope these above points clear and helpful. Please let us know for any concerns and suggestions.

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Regards,

ora-data Team.

Oracle DBA Troubleshooting Tips and Guide

Hey DBA-Mates, hope you all are doing well!!!

Oracle DBA troubleshooting is very important and advance for DBA’s life. We all should know and understand the troubleshooting ways. Here we have some points and the ways which can be helpful in troubleshooting.

One thing I would like to share here that troubleshooting is not a rocket science but people make it like a rocket science hehehh. Even if rocket science also we can do it friends.

Friends, please just try once and follows these below points. I am sure it will be very useful. There are many more points technical but I tried to explain in very simple ways to kick start.

As per my experiences I have seen some people feel as troubleshooting is either hard or they afraid.

WHY TROUBLESHOOTING IS HARD:

1. You feel as you can’t do it even without any try. Already they have mindset.

2. You think it will take time but it takes time for everyone.

You know one SECRET, no one know everything, even seniors also check in metalink or google. Only one thing is different i.e. Observations as per experiences. Otherwise everything is same. Whatever we/they do, you can also do.

3. You afraid about mistakes but we need to try on test server which everyone does it.

Never give up. Today if you try for 1 hr and got solution, tomorrow you will be king of it. If you do not get solution in 1 hr, take it as challenge and try till get the solution. Every one learns like this only.

Simple Steps to START TROUBLESHOOTING:

1. You must Read error carefully.

2. Must check alert logs accordingly.

3. Check for related error either in Metalink or Google.

4. Understand or observe the error 100%. Do not be hurry in investigations.

After checking Metalink or Google, never do hurry to execute solution. First understand the solution 100% thoroughly. Check what is required in the given solution.

Some Important Suggestions:

For Example: Suppose, there is given any “rm” command in solution. As per my DBA experiences never ever use “rm or rm –rf” command. If required check 7 times before using this command.

Actually I forget this command; I don’t know “rm or rm-rf” command hehehh.

If it is very necessary, then take the backup of file and then remove.

Before executing solution check for any SQL DDL command or any other SQL SCRIPTS statements which can impact like DDL or any Transactional etc…

And if you are not sure then check on test servers and check with your seniors.

I guarantee that just follow these simple above steps. You will see yourself changes. If any more suggestions, I will keep update here.

And also if you have any more points please let us know which will be helpful for all of us.

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