GoldenGate

Extend session timeout in GoldenGate Microservices Web UI

If you start using the GoldenGate web UI after installing it, you might end up thinking that extending the session timeout would be nice. Since there is no clear Oracle documentation on that matter, here are multiple ways(…)

OGG-00423 when performing initial load with GoldenGate 23ai

Very quick piece of blog today to tackle the OGG-00423 error. There is not much information online on the matter, and the official Oracle documentation doesn’t help. If you ever stumble upon an OGG-00423 error(…)

ORA-44001 when setting up GoldenGate privileges on a CDB

I was recently setting up GoldenGate for a client when I was struck by a ORA-44001 error. I definitely wasn’t the first one to come across this while playing with grants on GoldenGate users, but nowhere could I find(…)

Securing an Existing Unsecure GoldenGate Installation

You might have an existing unsecure GoldenGate installation that you would like to secure, whether it’s for security reasons or because you would like to dissociate the installation and its securing process. After searching everywhere in the Oracle documentation(…)

GoldenGate 26ai Installation: Graphic and Silent Mode Comparison for Automation

26ai update: This article was originally written for 23ai. But not much changes when setting up GoldenGate 26ai. Just adapt the responseFileVersion when doing the silent installation, and that’s it ! As instructed in this(…)

Oracle OGG JAGENT 12.2 installation for GoldenGate monitoring using the Cloud Control plugin

This post is mainly for self documentation as I have to search my old notes every time I want to do this (I am faster by searching on our blog :) ): If you want to monitor GoldenGate with Cloud(…)

A new OGG challenge: Migrate an Oracle 8.1.7.4 instance to 10.2.0.5

Yes, these beasts still exist in production: [/u01/appl/ora817]$ sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Thu Apr 27 09:54:20 2017 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL> connect / as sysdba Connected. SQL> select * from v$version;(…)

OGG: Patch 17030189 is required on your Oracle mining database for trail format RELEASE 12.2

Another GoldenGate 12.2 one: Some days ago I had this in the GoldenGate error log: 2017-04-12 14:56:08 WARNING OGG-02901 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, extimch.prm: Replication of UDT and ANYDATA from redo logs is not supported with the(…)

Failed to set logmining server parameter MAX_SGA_SIZE to value XX

When you see something like this in your GoldenGate error log when you try to start an extract: 2017-04-12 14:51:38 ERROR OGG-02039 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, extxxx.prm: Failed to set logmining server parameter MAX_SGA_SIZE to value 24. 2017-04-12 14:51:38(…)

GoldenGate 12.2: ERROR: Unable to create a new wallet

Today I had a very strange issue when setting up a brand new GoldenGate 12.2 installation. Installation went fine, patch went fine (PSU 170221) and then I started to configure GoldenGate. One of the first commands we usually do is:(…)