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Temporary tablespace and ODA 19.31.

I recently patched Oracle Database Appliances (ODAs) to 19.31. For DBs with more than 1 tempfile in the temporary tablespace I got an error during the “odacli update-dbhome” : # odacli describe-job -i 2ff3fd5d-f611-4ae6-aae0-63df7c08ec71 Job details ---------------------------------------------------------------- ID: 2ff3fd5d-f611-4ae6-aae0-63df7c08ec71(…)

Not enough space for using ODABR? Reduce /u01 and /opt size on your ODA

Introduction The patching of an Oracle Database Appliance needs to be secured. This is because it won’t limit to patching the databases: there is plenty of other components embedded with the patch, the goal being to keep everything updated.

Loosing java remote console full control during ODA Reimage

Recently I had to patch an ODA at one of our customer from 19.20 to 19.26, going through 19.24. As you are aware of, knowing we go from Oracle Linux 7 (19.20) to Oracle Linux 8 (19.24), we need to(…)

MySQL Metadata Store service not able to start on an ODA

I was recently doing some consulting on some ODA at one of our customers, and I faced an issue with the DCS Agent and the MySQL Metadata Store. In this blog, I will show you the problem and how I(…)

Starting ODA 19.29 – Old grid version cleanup

We know that during the ODA patching, a new grid version will be installed. To avoid the /u01 file system to fill up, we need to cleanup the old version. In this blog, I will show you how you(…)

ODA 19.30 prepatch report failing on OS patches

I had to recently patch several ODAs from 19.28 to 19.30, and one ODA patching failed running the prepatch report which is mandatory and helpful before going to patch the ODA. For each step (server, grid or storage) a prepatch(…)

How to patch your ODA to 19.30?

Introduction Patch 19.30 is now available for Oracle Database Appliance series. Let’s find out what’s new and how to apply this patch. What’s new? The real new feature is the possibility to rollback a server component patch done(…)

Migrate your database to 26ai on ODA

Introduction Oracle 26ai is not yet available on Bare Metal ODA, but it will probably be in a few weeks. For now, 26ai is available as a DB System on Oracle Database Appliance, meaning that it’s already possible to(…)

How to patch your ODA to 19.29?

How to patch your Oracle Database Appliance to 19.29(…)

Reimage your ODA from scratch

Reimage your ODA from scratch: is it a good alternative to patching?(…)