If you are using drivers and libraries that need access to Oracle databases (e.g. perl-DBD-Oracle), you will need the Oracle Instantclient. Oracle offers this software for free after registration. Unfortunately creating correct provides tags was missed when creating the RPM packages. Even though Instantclient is …

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If you haven't used an Oracle database for some time you might stumble upon the issue I just had: all internal user accounts were locked and I also didn't know the passwords. By default login information of internal users are invalid after 180 days. The following accounts are important to me on my Oracle 11gR2 Database …

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Recently I had problems with installing Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on CentOS 6.4. The installation of the RPM package worked but the database configuration crash with the following error: 1# service oracle-xe configure 2... 3"Database Configuration failed. Look into /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/config/log …

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