DB2 SQL1598N licensing error when upgrading GoldenGate 13.08.2026 by Julien Delattre While upgrading GoldenGate to 26ai for a DB2 z/OS source, I had to update the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI (CLI Driver, in short) alongside it. Since I realized that DB2 driver(…)
Oracle GoldenGate extract abending on NFS trail: OGG-02897 / OGG-01668 Input/Output Error 10.08.2026 by Julien Delattre While working on a client’s GoldenGate 26ai environment, I ran into a NFS-related replication issue that could have been serious, had it happened in production. Here is what happened and how the issue was fixed. The client’s GoldenGate(…)
Oracle GoldenGate trail purge task fails with “OGG-12111: JSON element ‘/csn’ does not match any schemas” 24.06.2026 by Julien Delattre Since the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to upgrade many GoldenGate setups to 26ai. On two of them, I was facing an issue regarding purge tasks that I could not solve. Since it took quite some(…)
Oracle OGG-08502 Path not found error from OGG Receiver Service 21.05.2026 by Julien Delattre Update: this bug seems to be corrected with the latest GoldenGate patch (23.26.2.0.1). If you face this error, try to patch your GoldenGate deployments. Recently, after a successful migration to GoldenGate 26ai, a customer complained that he was(…)
Oracle GoldenGate 26ai logs explained 20.04.2026 by Julien Delattre GoldenGate logs are a powerful source of information when troubleshooting or analyzing your deployments. However, there is at least one log file per service in the Microservices Architecture. This means that for a GoldenGate setup with multiple deployments, you(…)
Oracle Credential errors (OGG-15409) with GoldenGate Migration Utility 19.03.2026 by Julien Delattre The GoldenGate migration utility provided by Oracle allows you to quickly upgrade your classic architecture into GoldenGate 26ai with Microservices Architecture. But even after some updates, it still has a few bugs, as I explained(…)
Oracle OGG-12020 payload error in GoldenGate Migration Utility 16.03.2026 by Julien Delattre While migrating a GoldenGate classic architecture setup with the migration utility, I recently had the following OGG-12020 error: [ERROR] OGG-12020 - The request payload for 'POST /services/v2/config/files/ext.prm' is not defined as an object It(…)
Oracle OGG-08048 after patching GoldenGate: explanations and solutions 09.03.2026 by Julien Delattre When patching GoldenGate Classic Architecture, you might encounter an OGG-08048 error when restarting your extracts and replicats. OGG-08048: Failed to initialize timezone information. Check location of ORACLE_HOME. What should you do exactly, and how do you avoid this(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring How to Fix the etcd Error: “etcdserver: mvcc: database space exceeded” in a Patroni cluster 14.05.2024 by Joan Frey If you’re encountering the etcd error “etcdserver: mvcc: database space exceeded,” it means your etcd database has exceeded its storage limit. This can occur due to a variety of reasons, such as a large number of revisions or excessive(…)
Application integration & Middleware, Oracle ORDS with TNS 02.02.2022 by Alain Lacour The aim of that blog is to look into Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) DB connection with TNS. This is following some experience at a customer who wanted to move to latest version of ORDS with APEX(…)