By William Sescu I have setup a DataGuard environment and followed the instructions from Oracle to create the Standby Redo Logs. The Standby Redo Logs have to be the same size as the Online Redo Logs. If not, the RFS process won’t attach Standby Redo Logs, and you should have at least one more of the Standby Redo Log Group…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, tribute to transportable tablespaces (TTS), I said that TTS is also used to move data quickly from operational database to a datawarehouse ODS. For sure, you don’t transport directly from the production database because TTS requires that the tablespace is read only. But you can transport from a snapshot standby. Both features…
By Franck Pachot . On the Oracle Database Appliance, like on the Oracle public Cloud, you define the CPU capacity with ‘shapes’. On the latest ODA, the X6, we have a new interface to provision a database. Let’s look at the different shapes available. ODACLI You can provision a new database with the command line ODACLI which replaces the OAKCLI…
By Franck Pachot . DB_FLASHBACK_RETENTION_TARGET is set to keep enough flashback logs to be able to flashback database within the specified retention window. But it’s supposed to be a target only, meaning that on space pressure some files can be deleted. But be careful, there are cases where they are not and then the database hangs until you set a…
By Franck Pachot . When you create a DBaaS on the Oracle Cloud services you have to provide an administration password in the database configuration form. You do not need a password to connect to the VM. You use SSH key for it: on creation you provide the public key that will allow you to connect as the oracle user…
By Franck Pachot . A ‘Data Guard’ checkbox is available for a long time on the Oracle Public Cloud Database as a Service, but it’s only for a few days that it does something: create a service with an database in Data Guard. I’ve created a database service as usual and the only additional thing I did is to check…
By Franck Pachot . When you create a DBaaS on the Oracle Cloud Service you have only one way to access to your database: ssh with the public rsa key you provide. Then you can open some ports to access the VM. However, from the VM you can’t access your own network. You need it to move data between from…
By Franck Pachot . In multitenant, the spfile parameters at pluggable database level are not stored in the spfile but in the CDB$ROOT table SYS.PDB_SPFILE$ If you open the standby database in read only for reporting, which is one reason to get Active Data Guard option, you may want different optimizer settings suited for reporting. In non-CDB it’s easy: the…
By Franck Pachot . How do you manage your continuous integration tests on the database? You need to restart at the same state for probably a hundred of tests. Recreating the schema and test data takes too long. Oracle is not optimized for DDL. Restoring the database takes too long. Even if you data is small, there is those SYSTEM,…
By Franck Pachot . I never create a Data Guard configuration from Enterprise Manager. It’s not that I don’t like GUI, but it is a lot easier to document it when doing from command line: copy paste the commands (actually I write the commands in the documentation and then copy to execute them so that I’m sure about the documentation).…
By Franck Pachot . The OCM exam advice says: Be prepared to use the non-searchable documentation during the exam, to help you with correct syntax. I’ve checked that I can find quickly the documentation related with each topic listed. Here it is As in the previous posts, I write that before taking the exam, from only the list of topics,…
By Franck Pachot . In 12c the manual switchover to physical standby requires only one command (ALTER DATABASE SWITCHOVER) instead of two (ALTER DATABASE COMMIT TO SWITCHOVER on each database). We usually recommend to use the broker and I wanted to see if the broker uses that new command or not. Let’s compare the alert.log for both manual and broker…
