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When applying archive logs on the standby, dbvctl process can terminate abnormally with Error Code: 2044. This can happen in case there are several archive logs with huge size to be applied. Problem description With dbvisit there is 2 ways to recover the archive log on the standby, either using sqlplus or rman. By default the configuration is set to…
Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is by default configured with software raid for Operating System and Oracle Database software file system (2 internal SSD disks). 2 raid devices are configured : md0 and md1.ODA are configured to run raid-check every Sunday at 1am. Analysing the problem In case the ODA is having some load during raid-check, it can happen that the…
Introduction I’m not that excited with all these events arround Oracle technologies (and beyond) but it’s always a good place to learn new things, and maybe the most important, discover new ways of thinking. And regarding this point, I was not disappointed. Franck Pachot: serverless and distributed database Franck talked about scaling out, it means avoid monoliths. Most of the…
As the elapsed time (time it takes for a task from start to end, often called wall-clock time) per execution of parallel queries are not shown correctly in AWR-reports, I thought I setup a testcase to find a way to get an elapsed time closer to reality. REMARK: To use AWR (Automatic Workload Repository) and ASH (Active Session History) as…
Today I participate to SOUG Day which takes place in Lausanne at the “Centre Pluriculturel et social d’Ouchy”. After a coffee and a welcome speech by Yann Neushaus, Ludovico Caldara and Flora Barriele, the event starts with 2 global sessions: A l’heure du serverless, le futur va-t-il aller aux bases de données distribuées? Franck Pachot makes a comparison between Oracle…
Introduction I was reimaging an X6-2M ODA after various patching troubles, and everything was fine. After several databases created, the next ones could no more be created. DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database. Expected free space (MB): {1}, available space (MB): {2} I’ve spent some time on it, and finally found the cause of the problem. And the…
I have recently been working on a customer project where I had been challenged adding a dbvisit standby database on an ODA X7-2M, named ODA03. The existing customer environment was composed of Oracle Standard 12.2 version database. The primary database, myDB, is running on server named srv02 and using a non-OMF configuration. On the ODA side we are working with…
Dbvisit standy is a disaster recovery solution that you will be able to use with Oracle standard edition. I have been working on a customer project where I had to setup a system having one primary and two standby databases. One of the standby database had to run with a gap of 24 hours. Knowing that flashback possibilities are very…
ODA light (ODA X7-2S, X7-2M, X8-2S, X8-2M) come with an internal derby database to manage ODA metadata. From time to time, there is a need to check or update some information within it, as for example when facing database deletion issue. I would like to strongly advise that updating manually the ODA repository should only be done after getting Oracle…
Since Oracle 11g files created by the database belong by default to the Linux group oinstall. Changing the default group after creating the central inventory is difficult. In this Blog I want to show how locally created archived redo can be in group dba instead of oinstall. One of my customers had the requirement to provide read-access on archived redo…
Oracle 19c has been released quite a while ago already and some customers already run it in Production. However, as it is the long term supported release, I thought I blog about some interesting information and features around 19c to encourage people to migrate to it. Download Oracle 19c: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads or https://edelivery.oracle.com (search e.g. for “Database Enterprise Edition”) Docker-Images: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDatabase…
Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago). Both windows databases and target ODA databases are running PSU 11.2.0.4.190115. But this would definitively also be working for oracle…
