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Oct 12 2018
Petre Radut

How to migrate Grid Infrastructure from release 12c to release 18c

By | Application integration & Middleware, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle | No Comments

Oracle Clusterware 18c builds on this innovative technology by further enhancing support for larger multi-cluster environments and improving the overall ease of use. Oracle Clusterware is leveraged in the cloud in order to provide enterprise-class resiliency where required and dynamic as well as online allocation of compute resources where needed, when needed. Oracle Grid Infrastructure provides the necessary components to manage high availability (HA) for any business critical application. HA in consolidated environments is no…

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Sep 24 2018
Petre Radut

SQL Plan stability in 11G using stored outlines

By | Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Development & Performance, Oracle | No Comments

Plan stability preserves execution plans in stored outlines. An outline is implemented as a set of optimizer hints that are associated with the SQL statement. If the use of the outline is enabled for the statement, then Oracle Database automatically considers the stored hints and tries to generate an execution plan in accordance with those hints (Oracle documentation). Oracle Database can create a public or private stored outline for one or all SQL statements. The…

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Jul 18 2018
Petre Radut

Control File issues on duplicating with non patched Oracle version.

By | Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle | No Comments

Introduction : RMAN has the ability to duplicate, or clone, a database from a backup or from an active database. It is possible to create a duplicate database on a remote server with the same file structure, or on a remote server with a different file structure or on the local server with a different file structure. For some old and  non patched Oracle versions such as that earlier than 11.2.0.4 , the duplicate (from…

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Apr 30 2018
Pierre Sicot

Oracle 18c clone PDB and Transparent Data Encryption

By | Database Administration & Monitoring | No Comments

Let’s do some tests with the Oracle 18c new feature in creating PDB clone with DBCA. Unfortunately, this feature does not work when you have TDE enabled. Just to remember, with Oracle 12.2 we had the possibility to create PDBs with dbca just from PDBseed to from unplugged PDBs: Now in version 18c we can create PDBs from existing PDBs as follows (for this test TDE is disabled): You can choose the Pluggable Database you want…

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Feb 27 2018
David Hueber

ODA migration challenges: Non-OMF to OMF + 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4

By | Database Administration & Monitoring | One Comment

To do some application and performances tests, I had to copy a database from a third party Linux server to an ODA X7-2M. Looks pretty simple on the paper, but 2 small challenges came into the game. The first was that of course the source database was in Non-OMF while ODA works fully in OMF. The second was that the source database is running 11.2.0.3 which is not supported and cannot be installed on the…

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Jan 12 2018
Marc Wagner

ORACLE 11g to 12c RMAN catalog migration

By | Database management, Oracle | 2 Comments

This is a small migration demo of a 11g catalog (RCAT11G) to a new 12c catalog (RCAT12c). Demo databases environments have been easily managed thanks to DBI DMK tool. oracle@vmreforadg01:/home/oracle/ [RCAT11G] sqh SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.4.0 oracle@vmtestoradg1:/home/oracle/ [RCAT12C] sqh SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0   Current configuration Displaying the list of databases registered in the RCAT11g catalog. SQL> select instance_name from v$instance; INSTANCE_NAME —————- RCAT11G SQL> select * from rcat.rc_database;     DB_KEY  DBINC_KEY       DBID NAME     RESETLOGS_CHANGE# RESETLOGS ———-…

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Jul 08 2017
Mouhamadou Diaw

Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.3 PSU: My Opatch version check is failing

By | Database Administration & Monitoring | No Comments

Last day I was configuring grid infrastructure 11.2.0.3 for a standlone server. After the installation, I decided to apply the Patch Set Update 11.2.0.3.7 (Includes Database PSU 11.2.0.3.7) – 16742216 In the documentation it is marked You must use the OPatch utility version 11.2.0.3.4 or later to apply this patch. Verifying my opatch version, I see that I have to update it [root@ ]# ./OPatch/opatch version Invoking OPatch 11.2.0.1.7 OPatch Version: 11.2.0.1.7 So I download…

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Feb 05 2016
Clemens Bleile

Enable 10046 Tracing for a specific SQL

By | Development & Performance | 10 Comments

Available methods to enable 10046 trace are described in My Oracle Support Note 376442.1. You can enable 10046-tracing – on session level (alter session) – for other sessions (e.g. with oradebug, the package DBMS_MONITOR or DBMS_SYSTEM) What is not covered with the methods above is the possibility to trace a specific SQL-statement, which runs “somewhen” in the future on the database. E.g. a SQL, which runs during a next batch job. With the introduction of…

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Nov 10 2015

Oracle DBA Essentials Workshop – Patchset 11.2.0.4 Available

By | Database Administration & Monitoring | No Comments

We have Upgrade our Environment Oracle DBA Essentials Workshop of release 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4. From now on, you can operates the various subjects on the new release. In this article, I present you the procedure to be followed for the upgrade of your database: Update DMK to the version 14-10 Upgrade database Install Oracle Patchset 11.2.0.4 and PSU Update DMK 14-10 The first step it’s update Data Management Kit, included dmk_sql. We need to Download,…

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Aug 25 2015
Joël Cattin

“FRA full” alerts flood the Alert Log

By | Database Administration & Monitoring | 5 Comments

We discovered a strange behavior in the Alert Log when the Fast Recovery Area (FRA) is full and the database wants to write something inside it (for example an archivelog). This case concern Oracle 11.2.0.3 databases and higher. Here is a demo with a 12c database (12.1.0.2) : First, to reproduce the behavior, I set a very small size to the FRA : SQL> alter system set db_recovery_file_dest_size = 1M; System altered. SQL> As you can see, the…

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