Infrastructure at your Service
Few weeks ago, during a audit, I have a lot of error 777970008 in the errorlog file from the SCOM instance. All 5 minutes, we had 4 lines more in the ErrorLog and the file growth a lot. After using google to find a cause of this message and resolve it, I finally find a good blog from Kevin Holman. I downloaded the script here and executed the part for the error 777970008 only: DECLARE…
You might know that since ODA 19.10, the ODA metadata database is now stored in a MySQL database and not in the apache derby database any more. During a patching to 19.10 or 19.11 from a release earlier than 19.10, the apache derby database will be migrated to a mysql database. This is performed during the odacli update-dcscomponent command. Starting 19.10, DCS Agent will then use MySQL server to display any metadata information, as for…
During all my ODA projects where I need to perform patching operation, I’m using odabr tool. This tool is really easy to use and well designed. It offers the possibility to create snapshot on the /, /u01 and /opt LVM file systems as well as a physical copy (rsync) of the files to an external destination storage as NFS. This is powerful in case you would like to get just one file back. The tool,…
Introduction Building an Oracle infrastructure today without thinking about a Disaster Recovery solution (DR) is quite rare. This became obvious that a backup or a dump will not help if you do not know where to restore or import once your production server is down. And restoring a backup is definitely not the fastest way to bring back your database to life. As a consequence, Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby, depending on which edition you’re…
Creating a snapshopt copy Pluggable Database (PDB) on top of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is not possible, because you need to have a filesystem which supports sparse files. According the following MOS-Note sparse files are supported on Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS) since 12.2.: 12.2 Oracle ACFS Sparse Files Enhancements (Doc ID 2200264.1) However, I thought it is more fun to create a PDB Snapshot Copy on a XFS-filesystem, which I wanted to…
As promised during my last Rubrik blog post I’m writing a second one to explain how to: log your different steps in a file add an integrity check after the restore and also improve my first scripting I will start by the end and improve my first scripts by creating functions for each step of the process. With Rubrik you can have multiple appliances (servers), it means that each server/instance of you SQL Server environment…
Doing some performance troubleshooting for one of my customers I identified some issues with very large table variables inside Stored procedures. Table variables limitations are not well understood by developers although they are now well documented. Table variable rows estimation Let’s have a look at an example with my customer context which is SQL Server 2016, so compatibility level 130 at the database level. You can reproduce this demo with the Wide World Importers database….
This script provides functionality to setup passwordless authentication in PostgreSQL for defined Server Names. This is very helpful by using replication via repmgr and is not Linux Distribution specific, it was used till now with SLES 12, SLES 15 and RHEL 8 Clones. As all of my scripts it provides help how the usage is with -h parameter: $ [[[email protected] ~]$ sh pgpass.sh -h $ [[[email protected] ~]$ Usage: $ [[[email protected] ~]$ pgpass.sh [OPTION] $ [[[email protected]…
SQL Server 2019 added three new options in sp_configure and sys.configurations. First, how can we find the difference between these SQL Server Versions. This simple query will give us the number of options and the SQL Server Version: select count(*) as number_of_configurations, @@version FROM sys.database_scoped_configurations In SQL server 2016, we have 4 parameters for the database configuration: In SQL server 2017, we have 5 parameters for the database configuration: In SQL server 2019, we have…
When you are using PostgreSQL you should already know that PostgreSQL comes with a set of extensions by default. It might be that you need to install an additional package if you installed PostgreSQL with a package manager to get those extensions. Usually it is called something with “contrib” in its name. There is also the PostgreSQL Extension Network which list a lot of external extensions that might be useful for you. If you can’t…
When you run PostgreSQL workloads in production you must have a backup and restore implementation. Even for development instances, which are like production for the developers, a well-tested backup and restore procedure sometimes must be in place. Community PostgreSQL comes with pg_basebackup to help you with creating a full consistent backup of your PostgreSQL cluster. If you want to be able to do point in time recovery (PITR) you need to archive the WAL segments…
I have blogged several times about unusually large MSDB databases like here. Most of the time the problem comes from the backup history which is never purged. This time it’s different. Try to guess, if not the backup history, what can cause MSDB to increase abnormally in size? Let’s start by looking at the total size of the database: It’s huge. The database size is almost 90GB. The 10% configuration on data files causes large…
