Unix

vi Editor Commands Reference for Oracle DBAs Every Oracle DBA on Unix or Linux ends up in vi whether they planned to or not. It opens by default when you crontab -e, it is what visudo drops you into, and it is the editor on most Oracle Linux and AIX hosts before anyone has installed nano or configured EDITOR. Knowing …

Oracle Database Export and Import to Gzip Through a Named Pipe When you need to export a large Oracle database but do not have enough disk space for a full uncompressed dump file, piping the export directly through gzip using a Unix named pipe is a proven technique. This method compresses data on the fly, producing a …