Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . I have written about some NoSQL myths in previous posts (<a href="https://blog.dbi-services.com/rdbms-scales-the-algorithm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"4here and here) and I got some feedback from people mentioning that the test case was on relatively small data. This is true. In order to understand how it works, we need to explain and trace the execution, and that is easier on a small test case. Once the algorithm is understood it is easy to infer…
In this previous blog , we deal with Oracle Restart and ACFS. We saw that using ACFS with Oracle Restart will require some manual tasks. The solution is to install a Grid Infrastructure for a cluster, even if we are only using one node. I am using the same configuration -Oracle 19c -Oracle Linux Server 7.6 -Kernel 4.14.35-1902.2.0.el7uek.x86_64 As we are going to install a GI for a cluster, we will need -Public IP: 192.168.2.21…
Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the 19.9 release will be the same for all ODAs, as usual. Like 19.6, the oldest ODA compatible with this release will be the X5-2. Don’t expect to install 19c on older models. X4-2 is stuck to 18.8, X3-2 is stuck to 18.5 and V1…
In this blog we are going to install an Oracle Restart 19c with ASM Filter Driver (AFD). I am using following configuration -Oracle 19c -Oracle Linux Server 7.6 -Kernel 4.14.35-1902.2.0.el7uek.x86_64 Once the Oracle Restart installed, I will create an ACFS filesystem We will have to configure following disks for AFD -/dev/sdc -/dev/sdd The Oracle downloaded software was unzipped to the GRID_HOME [[email protected] u01]$ unzip -d /u01/app/19.0.0.0/grid LINUX.X64_193000_grid_home.zip After setting the variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE, we…
Introduction Oracle Database Appliances rely on ASM to manage disk redundancy. And ASM is brilliant. Compared to RAID, redundancy is managed at the block level. For NORMAL redundancy, which is similar to RAID1, you need at least 2 disks, but it can also work with 3 disks, 4 disks, 5 disks and so on. There is no need for parity at the disk level. HIGH redundancy, which does not exist in RAID technology, is basically…
Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the solution is good enough and probably better than anything else. But now, public clouds are a real alternative to on-premise servers, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a solid competitor vs Amazon and Azure public clouds….
In this blog I want to introduce you to a workaround for a performance issue which randomly appeared during the upgrades of several Oracle 12c databases to 19c I performed for a financial services provider. During the upgrades we ran into a severe performance issue after the upgrades of more than 40 databases had worked just fine. While most of them finished in less than one hour, we run into one which would have taken…
I have been recently deploying some new ODA X8-2-HA. After reimaging and creating the appliance, I had to patch the ODA. The day after, checking status, I could realize that my node 0 was not working as expected. I did some interesting troubleshooting that I wanted to share hoping it might be helpful for someone.
By Franck Pachot . Statistically, my blog posts starting with a single SQL keyword (like COMMIT and ROLLBACK) in the title are not fully technical ones, but about moves. Same here. It is more about community engagement, people sharing. And about a friend. And clusters of course… In 2020 because of this COVID virus, we try to avoid clusters of people. And everybody suffers from that in the community because we have no, or very…
Column formatting was always a pain in sqlplus when writing queries on the prompt. Most people use tools like SQL Developer or Quest TOAD which can scroll horizontally when running queries against a database, but as a consultant you are often still forced to use sqlplus. Here’s the issue: When running e.g. a query on a table T1 (which is a copy of ALL_OBJECTS) it looks by default as follows and is hard to read:…
