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Nowadays DBAs face requirements for migrating databases across different platforms like from Windows to Linux or Solaris or vice versa. While doing this we would require to use transportable tablespaces or cross-platform transportable tablespaces. In order to decide whether the migration would be simple or will involve file conversion, following command is used to identify […]

On older Solaris or other Unix systems we quite often see following error while opening log files etc in vi or view terminal root> vi abc Terminal too wide : This is because the terminal is not wide enough to display more characters in one line. Solution: Execute following command on shell prompt. This will […]

Many a times we face a problem wherein mistakenly some files get created in a directory which are hard to rename or remove especially when working with putty terminal, by mistake if you paste come content on command prompt then it will create junk files with hyphen, tilde or any junk character in beginning. For […]