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Disable vi Autoindent Before Pasting SQL Scripts on Oracle Hosts Purpose Pasting a SQL script copied from email, a Confluence page, or a ticket comment into a vi buffer over SSH — and watching every line shift one indent right of the previous one — is the most common and most frustrating vi failure mode an Oracle DBA …

Oracle RMAN Unregister Database from Recovery Catalog Purpose Unregistering a database from an Oracle RMAN (Recovery Manager) recovery catalog removes all backup metadata and database information from the catalog repository. This process is essential when a database is decommissioned, no longer needs catalog-based …