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By Franck Pachot . Did you ever encounter unexplained Oracle lock issues? They may be coming from unindexed foreign keys (which is worse in 11g). It’s not easy to monitor. Of course you can check Oracle locks from V$LOCKED_OBJECT, but that is a solution only for locks that remain. Some Oracle locks are there only for a short duration. How do you check which lock is acquired by a statement? Event 10704 is the solution. I’ll show…
Recently, I worked on an Oracle database migration for a customer and I faced a strange behavior when accessing a file stored on the file system of the Oracle database. The database has been migrated on a new server, and consolidated with existing databases. Several jobs are running into the database and need to access the file system to read or write some files. A particular file is received daily from a remote job over…
By Franck Pachot . sqlplus / as sysdba oradebug setmypid oradebug unlimit oradebug hanganalyze 3 oradebug dump ashdumpseconds 30 oradebug dump systemstate 266 oradebug tracefile_name Your Oracle database – production DB, of course – is hanging. All users are blocked. You quickly check the obvious suspects (archivelog destination full, system swapping, etc.) but it’s something else. Even you, the Oracle DBA, cannot do anything: any select is hanging. And maybe you’re even not able to…
Among the Oracle 12c new features there is the addition of an uninstall tool encapsulated in the Oracle database binaries. There is no more the necessity to download the deinstallation tool for Oracle products (deinstall utility). In this blog I propose an overview of this tool and its functionnalities.
Some days ago, Microsoft published the sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one, two months after the fifth one. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly – otherwise, do not install it and just have a look at it. Which issues are covered by this CU6? It is a small CU, it contains only 23 Hotfixes, mainly for the Engine and Analysis…
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…
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…
Three weeks ago, Microsoft published the third Cumulative Update (CU3) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly – otherwise, do not install it. Which issues are covered by this CU3? It contains 38 Hotfixes: 27 for the Engine 8 for SSAS 3 for SSRS To have more details or information about these hotfixes, click here. Historic of SQL Server 2012…
During one of my last MySQL mission, I encountered a “security error” with mysqldump. The mission was about migrating a MySQL database from one box to another MySQL version and from Windows to Linux with different users. In order to do that, I used mysqldump. During the import of the data, I got the following warning: ERROR 1449 (HY000) at line 1860: The user specified as a definer (‘cdadmin’@’%’) does not exist Following the migration,…
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…
