To create a unix tar file supply the path to the directory which you want to tar in the 'directoryname' below: $ tar cvf filename.ta...

Use this script to monitor how long the import into a table takes and how many rows have already been imported. Log in as sysdba to do that....

To delete files older than certain days you use -mtime argument of the find command like this. The following example deletes files which s...

See what's in you db_cache buffer at that time, log on as SYSDBA and run the following query. You will see what occupies the db_cache bu...

Use this command on Solaris with bash, to get your files sorted from the smallest to the largest and quickly list large files. $ ls -lhs | s...