ORA- Errors

This category contains posts about oracle errors I have encountered and some of the steps I have taken to resolve them

The ORA-01017 invalid username/password; logon denied

BACKGROUND Working in IT is one of those things, you love it but sometimes it can annoy the hell out of you and this is extremely frustrating. You wake up in the morning, come to work, have plans of what you’re going to do and then… All hell breaks loose. It can be exciting and […]

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The Shifty ORA-03113 Error

Leave a Comment / Backup and Recovery, Daily DBA Stuff, ORA- Errors / Harris / March 6, 2026

I was attempting to do some work on one of the databases on a sandbox environment that had been shutdown for a few weeks; so I log on to the server, set my environment, connect as sys, issue the startup command and… I get the ORA-03113: end of file on communication channel! This was somewhat

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