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On logical standby you have to switch off data guard at least on session level to make modifications on objects which are maintained by data guard. This is done by command alter session disable guard; Dataguard can be reenabled for this session by issuing alter session enable guard; For executing these commands “alter database” privilege is at least needed, which…
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 the ODA connected to the LAN when performing an ODA reimage and/or running the configure-firstnet in additionnal of having ILOM…
Usually it is not possible to shrink tables which are used by on commit materialized views. The result is an ORA-10652 “Object has on-commit materialized views” error, for which in action section nothing is suggested. There is a workaround for this error: Convert all materialized views which rely on your table to be shrinked from on-commit to on-demand views. Application…
The release of Docker for Windows Stable version 18.06..0-ce-win70 comes with some great new features I looked for a while including the K8s support! That’s a pretty good news because this support has existed on Edge channel since the beginning of this year but no chance to install a beta version on my laptop from my side. So, we get…
Let’s start the story from the beginning with some funny testing I tried to perform with SQL Server on Linux a couple of months ago. At that time, I wanted to get some pictures of syscalls from SQL Server as I already did in a past on Windows side with sysinternal tools as procmon and stack traces. On Linux strace…
By Franck Pachot . Good news, the latest Patchset for Oracle 12cR2 (which is not named patchset anymore, is actually called release 18c and numbered 18.0.0.0.0) is available for download on OTN. It is great because OTN download does not require access to Support and Software Updates. It is available to anybody under the Free Developer License Terms (basically development,…
A lot of companies use Active Directory to manage their users and groups. What most of this companies also want to do is to manage their database users and groups in Active Directory. PostgreSQL comes with ldap/kerberos authentication by default but does not provide anything that helps with managing users and groups in an external directory. And even for the…
Oracle Database 12c has new enhancements and additions in Recovery Manager (RMAN). The RMAN tool continues to enhance and extend the reliability, efficiency, and availability of Oracle Database Backup and Recovery. Below, I will mention couple of new features for the RMAN duplicate command, but also how to avoid issues that can happen on the creation of the temporary files.…
By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database is fully supported on Docker according that Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 with Unbreakable Enterprise 4. This is documented in MOS Note 2216342.1. Given the size of the Oracle database in GigaBytes even empty, the way it is installed at build with many file updates, and…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve created a Google Cloud Spanner database and inserted a few rows from the GUI. This is definitely not a solution fo many rows and here is a post about using the command line. If I start the Google Shell from the icon on the Spanner page for my project, everything is…
Introduction : RMAN has the ability to duplicate, or clone, a database from a backup or from an active database. It is possible to create a duplicate database on a remote server with the same file structure, or on a remote server with a different file structure or on the local server with a different file structure. For some old…
I’m currently working in a project to migrate a Datawarehouse-database from Solaris to Linux Intel (Endian-change). We do use the cross platform incremental backups method as described in My Oracle Support Note 1389592.1 for that. I.e. incremental backups are applied to database files and during the migration the recovered datafiles are attached to the target database via the transportable tablespace…
