Marc Wagner

Moving oracle database to new home on ODA

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(…)

How workload policies is making your life easy

Working as a control-M administrator, we are often requested to hold jobs or stop jobs during a period of time. Holding jobs and updating the job configuration might not be the most efficient way to do this. Workload policies is(…)

Walking through the Zürich ZOUG Event – September the 18th

What a nice and an interesting new experience... My first ZOUG Event... Interesting opportunities to meet some great persons and hear to some great sessions. I had the chance to participate to Markus Michalewicz sessions. Markus is Senior Director, Database(…)

RMAN catalog upgrade, why, when and how

One of our customer has been initially creating a RMAN catalog on an Oracle database release 12.1.0.2.0 and was now intending to register new Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 databases. Registering the databases will be failing with errors : PL/SQL package RCAT.DBMS_RCVCAT version 12.01.00.02(…)

ODA database been stuck in deleting status

Facing an internal inconsistency in the ODA derby database is very painful (see https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oda-lite-what-is-this-odacli-repository/ for more info about the derby database). I have recently faced a case where the database deletion was failing and the database remained then in "Deleting"(…)

ODA, network interface and configure-firstnet

Deploying new Bare Metal ODA X7-2S or 2M, I have been curious how configure-firstnet would interact with the fiber and copper ethernet network interfaces. Reading documentation on the web, I could not clearly understand if it is mandatory to have(…)

ODA fiber interface link detection issue

Configuring fiber interfaces during an ODA installation can sometime been challenging. The configuration can depend on the kind of gigabit interface converter (GBIC) and switch been used. In this blog, I would like to show a real case faced during(…)

Dbvisit Standby Archive Log Daemon

Dbvisit Standby version 8 comes with a nice feature, a daemon, which gives the benefit to send and apply the archive log automatically in the background. Bypassing the system scheduling, the daemon will facilitate customer RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and(…)

ODA – Reducing number of cores : Getting error DCS-10045

To perform some tests in order to determine the accurate number of cores to be used by the database application, I had to increase and decrease the number of CPU cores on an ODA using the DCS stack.  When increasing(…)

RMAN debugging during catalog import

In this post I would like to share how I have been able to troubleshoot and solve a catalog import issue using RMAN debug function. As we can see, the error message provided by RMAN is not very helpful. oracle@vmtestoradg1:/home/oracle/(…)