Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . AWS has just added the possibility to create your oracle Database as as CDB (Container Database), the “new” architecture of Oracle where an instance can manage multiple databases, adding a new level between the heavy instance and lightweight schema: At the time I’m writing this, I see it only in the “old” console (“original interface”) not in “new database creation flow”. It is displayed as a different Edition, however it is…
By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud, Open Source and Oracle Databases… what seems to be a paradox is possible, thanks to cloud providers who contribute to open infrastructure. The idea is to use Operators (custom resource controllers on Kubernetes) to automate the Oracle Database operations in a standard, open and portable way. If you ever attempted to run Oracle Database on containers, trying to keep up with the DevOps approach, you know that it requires…
By Franck Pachot . Delphix is a tool for easy cloning of databases. The idea is that all is automated: the user can create a clone, rewind or refresh it with one click. However, I was suprised that the following common scenario is not managed by the Delphix engine: You clone from production, say Oracle 12c You upgrade the clone, say Oracle 19c You test there You refresh the clone from production, obviously being back…
By Franck Pachot . Oracle Error: ORA-01547: warning: RECOVER succeeded but OPEN RESETLOGS would get error below ORA-01152: file … was not restored from a sufficiently old backup ORA-01110: data file … This error is one of the most misunderstood recovery error. It can happen in different case but I have here a simple example to reproduce it, with some comments and queries to see the state. I run an example to avoid long theory…
Introduction Have you ever renamed your database? When you cloned a DB, you probably started it with a new name and cloning (duplicating) with RMAN provided a new DBID, right? So why should we need to rename a DB? There may be several reasons: due to changed company rules, you need to rename all your DBs After a restore you need to run the DB with another name After a snapshot clone, (see my recent…
By Franck Pachot . This post is something I discovered by chance when writing about tagging SQL statement with recognizable comments. We know that Oracle is introducing more and more artificial intelligence and machine learning in the database engine, but here is the first time I see something where random or hash values seems to bring some meaning. There are two common ways to run a query and find it in V$SQL: add some tag…
By Franck Pachot . I never remember that in order to use instance caging you need to set a Resource Manager Plan but don’t need to set CPU_COUNT explicitly (was it the case in previous versions?). Here is how to test it quickly in a lab. SQL> startup force ORACLE instance started. SQL> show spparameter resource_manager_plan SID NAME TYPE VALUE ——– —————————– ———– —————————- * resource_manager_plan string SQL> show spparameter cpu_count SID NAME TYPE VALUE…
By Franck Pachot . dbi-services is partner of Delphix – a data virtualization platform for easy cloning of databases. I’m sharing a little glossary to get started if you are not familiar with the terms you see in doc, console or logs. Setup console The setup console is the first interface you will access when installing Delphix engine (“Dynamic Data Platform”). You import the .ova and start it. If you are on a network with…
Oracle Blockchain Tables are available now with Oracle 19.10. (see Connor’s Blog on it), they are part of all editions and do not need any specific license. I.e. whenever we need to store data in a table, which should never be updated anymore and we have to ensure data cannot be tampererd, then blockchain tables should be considered as an option. As Oracle writes in the documentation that blockchain tables could e.g. be used for…
By Franck Pachot . This extends a previous post (Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded) where, in summary, the ideas were: When you gather statistics, you want the new executions to take into account the new statistics, which means that the old execution plans (child cursors) should be invalidated You don’t want all child cursors to be immediately invalidated, to avoid an hard parse storm, and this is why this invalidation is rolling: a 5 hour window…
