Gone are the days where you had to put a tablespace or your complete database offline in order to move or rename a datafile. Oracle 12c features a new command that allows to move datafiles when both database and datafile are online! Up to Oracle 11.2.0.3, you had three ways to relocate a datafile: Put the tablespace offline Put the…
Oracle Database 12c was published in June and among the new features of this release are multiple improvements of the Flashback Data Archive (FDA), an option also known as Oracle Total Recall. In this post, I will present the new features coming with Oracle 12c. Overview Before speaking about these improvements, let me point out the main concept of Oracle…
In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model.…
Last February, I performed an operating system rolling upgrade on a four-nodes RAC cluster (11.2.0.2). I then faced a strange problem when restarting the operating system… The first step of the procedure was to stop all Grid Infrastructure and Database services running on the first node as well as to disable Cluster and ASM autostart. The following command is supposed…
In January, I promised to show you the next step of a procedure to manage templates with Virtual Box. Don’t worry, I have not forgotten but I was very busy! This step, the final one, consists on customizing of a virtual machine configuration at the start. VMware does it with Templates on ESX, using for example Sysprep for MS Windows guests.…
Diese Frage habe ich in den letzten Jahren öfters gehört. Zumindest seitdem die DBAs Oracle Datapump verwenden anstatt des alten Export/Import Tools. Angeblich war es früher mit dem Import-Parameter-Tool „INDEXFILE“ viel einfacher. Tja, die Wahrheit ist: Mit Datapump geht es noch leichter! Dies möchte ich anhand eines ganz normalen Datapump-Export–Files verdeutlichen. In folgendem Beispiel handelt es sich um einen einfachen Schema-Export,…
In march 2011, my colleague Gregory Steulet published an article about Simulating and testing I/O performances with Orion. In this article, he wrote about a bug concerning Orion on Oracle 11.2, reported in Oracle bug number 9104898: “ORION FAILS WITH ORA-27061: WAITING FOR ASYNC I/OS FAILED”. Trying to compare performances of storage devices on a virtual machine between a classical…
La configuration des options sous Entreprise Edition avant Oracle 11g pouvait être un véritable parcours du combattant. Donc, une attention particulière devait avoir lieu avant l’installation des binaires Oracle; à savoir quelles options devaient être installées! Depuis la version 11g, les choses ont bien changé, grâce à l’utilitaire “chopt” se trouvant sous $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Voici la syntaxe d’utilisation de “chopt”: chopt…
When using Automatic Memory Management for Oracle, it is sometimes difficult to monitor the memory usage and in particular to find the right tools to get the right information about currently allocated structures. The instance which will be analyzed has been configured with AMM (Automatic Memory Management) on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1. The current memory_target is set to 1 GB:…
Dans le cadre d’un cluster Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 utilisé pour gérer des bases de données en mode FAILOVER, j’ai été amené à me pencher sur l’algorithme de basculement d’une ressource et des paramètres le régissant. On trouve dans la documentation Oracle des informations sur les cinq paramètres intervenant dans la prise de décision, à savoir: CHECK_INTERVAL: L’Intervalle de…
In my last posting of November 9, 2012, Manage templates manually with Oracle Virtual Box, I have presented a solution to duplicate virtual machines using Oracle/ Virtual Box. I did not show the scripts in this first publication, but I promised to tell you more about it… Let me present the case. In September 2012, I was asked to create…
I recently helped to create a lab dedicated to a training about Oracle backup and recovery, with Oracle 11g databases. While creating several databases on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1, I wanted to resize the tmpfs to allocate more memory to the databases for AMM (Automatic Memory Management). That was a small challenge 🙂 … By default, the value of…
