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Remove components from Oracle’s kernel with chopt

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I’ve had an interesting discussion today. Somebody removed OLAP with chopt – and got issues afterwards. My guess: chopt will only remove the binary option and is meant to be used before a database got created. But if you use it afterwards you’ll have to make sure to remove the dictionary components as well.

A while back a blogged about chopt already:

And there are some helpful Support Notes out there:

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What or who is JOX? And what happens if …

Are you worried because of the title of this blog post? Don’t worry … it will be about the Oracle database and not about miraculous additives.

Months back I wrote about how to remove options from the Oracle database’s kernel by either using chopt or linking options off:

Recently a very interesting case was logged in relation to a bug:
A customer had linked off the JOX option from the database kernel.
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What is JOX? 

Well, do a quick search for “JOX” in the Oracle Documentation and …

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