Oracle

Data Guard: always set db_create_file_dest on the standby

By Franck Pachot . The file name convert parameters are not dynamic and require a restart of the instance. An enhancement request was filled in 2011. I mentioned recently on Twitter that it can be annoying with Active Data Guard(…)

My tmux scripts to script demos

By Franck Pachot . When I did my first demo using tmux, I have written the following blog post to explain it: https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/using-tmux-for-semi-interactive-demos/. Since then I've done all my demos with this technique. My scripts and(…)

18c: Order by in WITH clause is not preserved

By Franck Pachot . For a previous post I’ve run on 18c a script of mine to get the V$MYSTAT delta values between two queries. This script (new version available on(…)

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(…)

18c: some optimization about redo size

By Franck Pachot . Some years ago, at the time of 12.1 release, I published in the SOUG newsletter some tests to show the amount of redo generated by different operations on a 10000 rows(…)

Event Sourcing: CQN is not a replacement for CDC

By Franck Pachot . We are in an era where software architects want to stream the transactions out of the database and distribute them, as events, to multiple microservices. Don't ask why, but that's the trend: store inconsistent eventually consistent(…)

Statspack installation scripts

By Franck Pachot . When Diagnostic Pack is disabled, either because you don't have Diagnostic Pack or you are in Standard Edition, I highly recommend to install Statspack. When you will need it, to investigate on an issue that occured(…)

DataGuard and Transparent Data Encryption

By Mouhamadou Diaw Setting up a DatagGard environment for a database with Transparent Data Encryption requires some tasks concerning the encryption keys. Otherwise the steps are the same than for an environment without TDE. In this blog we will(…)

PGIO, PG_STAT_ACTIVITY and PG_STAT_STATEMENTS

By Franck Pachot . For an Oracle DBA, we are used to join active sessions (from V$SESSION where status='ACTIVE) with active statements (from V$SQL where users_executing>0) on the SQL_ID. V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY also displays the TOP_LEVEL_SQL_ID to get the entrypoint of the(…)

Kernel panic – not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes

By Franck Pachot . This is a quick post to give a solution (maybe not the best one as this was just quick troubleshooting) if, at boot, you see something like: Trying to allocate 1041 pages for VMLINUZ [Linux=EFI, setup=0x111f,(…)