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What’s the consequence of NOLOGGING loads?

By Franck Pachot . When you load data in direct-path and have the NOLOGGING attribute set, you minimize redo generation, but you take the risk, in case of media recovery, to loose the data in the blocks that you’ve loaded. So you probably run a backup as soon as the load is done. But what happens if you have a… 

Beyond In-Memory, what’s new in 12.1.0.2 ?

By Franck Pachot . It’s just a patchset. The delivery that is there to stabilize a release with all the bug fixes. But it comes with a lot of new features as well. And not only the one that has been advertised as the future of the database. It’s a huge release. Let’s have a look at what’s new. First,… 

Drilling down V$RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I used X$KCCAGF to get more information about reclaimable archived logs in FRA, because there is a bug in standby (not opened) databases where archivelog deletion policy is ignored. I explained that the view V$RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE has only aggregated information about space reclaimable without the details about which files are reclaimable or not.… 

Archivelog deletion policy for Standby Database in Oracle Data Guard

By Franck Pachot . Do you use ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO APPLIED ON ALL STANDBY for your Oracle databases in Data Guard? Maybe you also use the Fast Recovery Area as archive log destination. That’s good practice! But did you ever check that it works as expected? What I mean is this: The archived logs that you don’t need are… 

“ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file”: what can I do?

You have certainly also received this error once in you Oracle DBA career: “ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file” while trying to create a standby database with RMAN through a full database backup. In fact, the feature itself is not very new. It exists since at least RMAN 10g, it is called the “Restore Failover”. In order… 

Pourquoi mettre une base de données Oracle en force logging ?

Certaines requêtes DDL offrent la possibilité de ne pas générer des enregistrements dans les redo log via la clause NOLOGGING. Le mode nologging permet donc dans certains cas d’accélérer des traitements, ceux-ci pouvant facilement être récupérables à travers des mécanismes externes à la base de données. Ce mode peut cependant avoir des conséquences fâcheuses comme nous allons le constater et

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A test database in one click – with Oracle Data Guard 11g

Are you confronted with  Developper or Application Owner wich want to have very soon a test database available,  to test the new developped code or to validate some code change before to  implement it ? With Data Guard 11g you can offer this possibility with one click or command line.