Comments on: Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Guide, Part 3: More adventures in process stack

By: Tanel Poder

Tanel Poder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:38:44 +0000

There’s that magic metalink note 175982.1 which documents the function name prefixes pretty well. I’ll speak about few techniques for identifying actual function names at my seminar (make sure you ask for it as sometimes I will skip through that section due lack of time)

By: John Ospino

John Ospino — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:06:18 +0000

Hi Tanel, I already paid for the seminar in Madrid, so I gonna meet this May 11 .).
First all, I’m really impressed about the way you treat the problems, and second I have a lot of questions to you, sorry in advance if I don’t let you breath.
:)
But, Where did you find defintions like “opidrv”, “ttcpip”, etc.?
It’s really impresive if you just conclude by yourself witout Oracle support.
Anyway thank you for share your knowlegde for free :), at least a part.

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