Infrastructure at your Service
Introduction In this blog post, I’ll do an introduction to the PowerShell module dbachecks. dbachecks uses Pester and dbatools to validate your SQL Server infrastructure. With very minimal configuration you can check that your infrastructure is configured following standard best practices or your own policy. We will see the following topics – Prerequisites for dbachecks Installation – Introduction to Pester – Perform a Check – Manage the Configuration items – Import & Export – Output…
I have recently been working on a customer project where I had been challenged adding a dbvisit standby database on an ODA X7-2M, named ODA03. The existing customer environment was composed of Oracle Standard 12.2 version database. The primary database, myDB, is running on server named srv02 and using a non-OMF configuration. On the ODA side we are working with OMF configuration. The dbvisit version available at that time was version 8. You need to…
Since Oracle 11g files created by the database belong by default to the Linux group oinstall. Changing the default group after creating the central inventory is difficult. In this Blog I want to show how locally created archived redo can be in group dba instead of oinstall. One of my customers had the requirement to provide read-access on archived redo to an application for logmining. To ensure the application can access the archived redo, we…
Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago). Both windows databases and target ODA databases are running PSU 11.2.0.4.190115. But this would definitively also be working for oracle 12c and oracle 18c databases. The databases are licensed with Standard Edition, so migrating through…
Moving database to new ORACLE_HOME is a common dba task. Performing this task on an ODA will need an additional step knowing ODA Lite is using an internal Derby database for the metadata. ODA HA will not be a problem here, knowing we do not have any Derby database. Through this blog I would like to give you some guidance and work around to move database to a new home (of same major release). In…
Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool since a long time. watch can repeat a command indefinitely until you stop it with Ctrl+C. And it’s even more useful with the – -diff parameter. All the differences since last run are highlighted. For…
The scope of this blog will be to show how to create a primary role database based on a backup of a standby database on 12cR2. Step1: We are assuming that an auxiliary instance has been created and started in nomount mode. rman target / restore primary controlfile from ‘backup_location_directory/control_.bkp’; exit; By specifying “restore primary” , will modify the flag into the controlfile, and will mount a primary role instance instead of a standby one….
On a DG environment, a datafile needs to be recovered on the STANDBY site, in two situations : when is deleted or corrupted. Below, I will explain how to recover a corrupted datafile, in order to be able to repair the Standby database, without to be necessary to restore entire database. Initial situation : DGMGRL> connect / Connected to “PROD_SITE2” Connected as SYSDG. DGMGRL> show configuration; Configuration – CONFIG1 Protection Mode: MaxPerformance Members: PROD_SITE2 -…
The following blog will provide the necessary steps to upgrade the Grid Infrastructure from 12.1 to 12.2, for a Standalone Server. One of the new features of GI 12.2 is the usage of the AFD (Oracle ASMFD Filter Driver). Assumptions : You have installed Oracle GI 12.1 as grid user You have installed Oracle Database 12.1 as oracle user You have configured the groups asmadmin,asmoper,asmdba You installed oracle-rdbms-server-12cr2-preinstall rpm You patched your Oracle GI to…
Oracle Database 12c has new enhancements and additions in Recovery Manager (RMAN). The RMAN tool continues to enhance and extend the reliability, efficiency, and availability of Oracle Database Backup and Recovery. Below, I will mention couple of new features for the RMAN duplicate command, but also how to avoid issues that can happen on the creation of the temporary files. FEATURES: <INFO>Using BACKUPSET clause : In previous releases, active duplicates were performed using implicit image…
