Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How to run the Oracle Data Pump Command as sysdba

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you have access to the Oracle DB server OS and user (e.g. via ssh or telnet), then you don’t need to have credentials for any DB user to be able to run the data pump commands, all you have … Continue reading →

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Oracle TimesTen In-memory Database Quick Commands & Tips

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

Commands to Start TimesTen Service: ./ttdaemonadmin -start ./ttdaemonadmin -startserver Commands to Stop TimesTen Service: ./ttdaemonadmin -stopserver ./ttdaemonadmin -stop Command to get status of TimesTen DB: ./ttstatus Note: Important to notice is whether the Data is loaded into RAM or not … Continue reading →

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Frequently-used VirtualBox Commands

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

You might be surprised that VirtualBox can be perfectly managed from the command line, you can create VMs, modify VM settings, startup/shutdown VMs, take snapshots …etc Here is the collection of commands I commonly use for my VirtualBox VMs: “VBoxManage … Continue reading →

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How to edit network settings manually in Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Precise)

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

Changing network settings in new versions of Ubuntu (don’t know when exactly this new methodology started) like Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Server Edition, has a major difference from the old methodology. The major change is that you no longer need to … Continue reading →

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How to get port number for SCBroker via srvrmgr

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

srvrmgr> list advanced param p% for comp scbroker server bla_bla_bla PA_ALIAS PA_VALUE PA_DATATYPE PA_SCOPE PA_SUBSYSTEM PA_SETLEVEL PA_DISP_SETLEVEL PA_EFF_NEXT_TASK PA_EFF_CMP_RSTRT PA_EFF_SRVR_RSTRT PA_REQ_COMP_RCFG PA_NAME ———- ——– ———– ——— ———— ———– ——————- —————- —————- —————– —————- —————— PortNumber 31530 Integer Subsystem Networking Comp … Continue reading →

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