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During one of my last consulting missions, I had to install Oracle Database Vault on an existing Oracle environment. It clearly was not a straigthforward process, since I experienced some weird errors such as: ORA-28003: password verification for the specified password failed, ORA-20001: Password length less than 8, and ORA-01917: user or role ‘LBACSYS’ does not exist. After having a look at several log files, I found the root causes of this error. Below, you…
Gone are the days where you had to put a tablespace or your complete database offline in order to move or rename a datafile. Oracle 12c features a new command that allows to move datafiles when both database and datafile are online! Up to Oracle 11.2.0.3, you had three ways to relocate a datafile: Put the tablespace offline Put the datafile offline Shutdown and mount the database Oracle 11g: Tablespace offline Renaming a datafile by…
Oracle Database 12c was published in June and among the new features of this release are multiple improvements of the Flashback Data Archive (FDA), an option also known as Oracle Total Recall. In this post, I will present the new features coming with Oracle 12c. Overview Before speaking about these improvements, let me point out the main concept of Oracle FDA. Flashback Data Archive appeared with Oracle 11g and improved the flashback technology introduced with…
In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model. Without entering in details, the customer had a VMware cluster with three nodes and had…
Last February, I performed an operating system rolling upgrade on a four-nodes RAC cluster (11.2.0.2). I then faced a strange problem when restarting the operating system… The first step of the procedure was to stop all Grid Infrastructure and Database services running on the first node as well as to disable Cluster and ASM autostart. The following command is supposed to prevent Oracle High Availability Service (OHAS) to be run at operating system startup: #…
In January, I promised to show you the next step of a procedure to manage templates with Virtual Box. Don’t worry, I have not forgotten but I was very busy! This step, the final one, consists on customizing of a virtual machine configuration at the start. VMware does it with Templates on ESX, using for example Sysprep for MS Windows guests. I am going to show you how to do it with one simple text file….
Diese Frage habe ich in den letzten Jahren öfters gehört. Zumindest seitdem die DBAs Oracle Datapump verwenden anstatt des alten Export/Import Tools. Angeblich war es früher mit dem Import-Parameter-Tool „INDEXFILE“ viel einfacher. Tja, die Wahrheit ist: Mit Datapump geht es noch leichter! Dies möchte ich anhand eines ganz normalen Datapump-Export–Files verdeutlichen. In folgendem Beispiel handelt es sich um einen einfachen Schema-Export, der wie folgt erzeugt wurde: [email protected]:/u00/app/oracle/admin/DB112/etc/ [DB112] cat expdp_SalesApp.par SCHEMAS=sh DIRECTORY=data_pump_dir DUMPFILE=expdp_SH_2013-02-17.dmp LOGFILE=expdp_SH_2013-02-17.log PARALLEL=4 [email protected]:/u00/app/oracle/admin/DB112/etc/…
In march 2011, my colleague Gregory Steulet published an article about Simulating and testing I/O performances with Orion. In this article, he wrote about a bug concerning Orion on Oracle 11.2, reported in Oracle bug number 9104898: “ORION FAILS WITH ORA-27061: WAITING FOR ASYNC I/OS FAILED”. Trying to compare performances of storage devices on a virtual machine between a classical and a paravirtual storage adapter, I experienced the same error when using large IOs. I…
La configuration des options sous Entreprise Edition avant Oracle 11g pouvait être un véritable parcours du combattant. Donc, une attention particulière devait avoir lieu avant l’installation des binaires Oracle; à savoir quelles options devaient être installées! Depuis la version 11g, les choses ont bien changé, grâce à l’utilitaire “chopt” se trouvant sous $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Voici la syntaxe d’utilisation de “chopt”: chopt [enable |disable] db_option db_option: dm = Oracle Data Mining dv = Oracle Database Vault lbac…
When using Automatic Memory Management for Oracle, it is sometimes difficult to monitor the memory usage and in particular to find the right tools to get the right information about currently allocated structures. The instance which will be analyzed has been configured with AMM (Automatic Memory Management) on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1. The current memory_target is set to 1 GB: SQL> show parameter memory_target NAME TYPE VALUE ———————————— ———– ———— memory_target big integer 1G …
