By Franck Pachot . Since 12cR2 is out, we give our 12c new feature workshop with hands-on exercises on 12.1 and 12.2 releases. When I gave it last month, I had a small problem when doing demos: sometimes the connections as sysdba failed with “ORA-01017: invalid username/password”. It was at random, about one every 5 login attempts and I was…
By Franck Pachot . Multitenant has been introduced in 12.1.0.1 with the goal to share resources but isolate data. However, having all PDBs in the same root may be convenient to manipulate data in multiple PDBs. In the first patchset, 12.1.0.2, a way to query cross-container has been introduced for the CDB administrator to see data in other containers. In…
By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 12.2 is released and we will have to upgrade. And in this blog we are going to talk about upgrading to oracle 12.2 using the dbupgrade utility. Of course the dbua tool is still available and can be also used. Oracle Database 12.1 introduced the Parallel Upgrade Utility, catctl.pl. This utility reduces the total amount of…
The Optimizer Statistics Advisor is a new Advisor in Oracle 12.2. The goal of this Advisor is to check the way you gather the statistics on your database, and depending on what is found, it will makes some recommendations on how you can improve the statistics gathering strategy in order to provide more efficient statistics to the CBO. This Advisor…
By Franck Pachot . If you are in multitenant, you probably already felt the desire to open the PDB$SEED in READ WRITE mode. Can you open PDB$SEED read write yourseld? Yes and No. Should you open PDB$SEED read write yourself? Yes and No. How to run upgrade scripts that need to write to PDB$SEED? catcon.pl In 12.1 you have no…
By Franck Pachot . I had a recent question about the following mention from the 12cR2 Multitenant book, about Partial PDB backups: . Here is an example in 12.2 with local undo to illustrate the answer, which may help to understand what is a partial PDB backup. Of course, since 12cR1 you can backup PDB individually, without the CDB$ROOT, in…
By Franck Pachot . Do you know the RMAN Recovery advisor? It detects the problems, and then you: RMAN> list failure; RMAN> advise failure; RMAN> repair failure; You need to have a failure detected. You can run Health Check if it was not detected automatically (see https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oracle-12c-rman-list-failure-does-not-show-any-failure-even-if-there-is-one/). In 12.2 you can run the repair directly, by specifying what you want…
By William Sescu Crosschecking in RMAN is quite cool stuff. With the RMAN crosscheck you can update an outdated RMAN repository about backups or archivelogs whose repository records do not match their physical status. For example, if a user removes archived logs from disk with an operating system command, the repository (RMAN controlfile or RMAN catalog) still indicates that the…
By Franck Pachot . Monitoring DML to get an idea of the activity on our tables is not new. The number of insert/delete/update/truncate since last stats gathering is tracked automatically. The statistics gathering job use it to list and prioritize tables that need fresh statistics. This is for slow changes on tables. In 12.2 we have the statistics advisor that…
By Franck Pachot . A good thing from 12.2 is that the implementation of Unified Audit Trail has changed a little. It was stored in a weird CLI_SWP$ table but now we have a normal partitioned table named AUD$UNIFIED. In a previous post I traced the two purge method: purge all before a timestamp, or purge all. Here is the…
By Franck Pachot . Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 is released for Windows, just 2 weeks after the Linux release, and this is a very good news. Let’s see something new you will encounter in the first screens of Oracle 12.2 installer. Don’t worry, the default choice is the right one. But better understand it. SYSTEM On Linux, you don’t install Oracle…
By Franck Pachot . The network files (sqlnet.ora, tnsnames.ora, lsnrctl.ora) are read by default from ORACLE_HOME/network/admin but you may have several Oracle installations, and want only one place for those files. Then you can use TNS_ADMIN environment variable. But are you sure that it is always set when starting the database? the listener? the client? They must be consistent (see…
