During the Frankfurter IT Tage I provided a presentation about SQL Plan Directives and how to reproduce a testcase in a test environment for a plan with used SQL Plan Directives (SPD). In that context I did a couple of tests with 12cR2 (12.2.0.1) and wanted to blog about the change in behavior in that release. Here is my testcase…
By William Sescu Security is a quite important topic, especially when running Oracle in the cloud. To make your DataGuard a little bit more secure, you can enable the TCP.VALIDNODE_CHECKING feature. I call it SQL*Net Firewall. Enabling the SQL*Net Firewall is quite straight forward. There are only 3 sqlnet.ora parameters which are involved: TCP.VALIDNODE_CHECKING TCP.INVITED_NODES TCP.EXCLUDED_NODES The parameter TCP.VALIDNODE_CHECKING turns…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I explained how the AWR views have changed between 12.1.0.1 and 12.1.0.2 and now in 12.2.0.1 they have changed again. This is a good illustration of multitenant object link usage. What’s new in 12cR2 is the ability to run AWR snapshots at CDB or PDB level. I really think that it makes…
In my last blog post I presented auto-list partitioning, a new partitioning functionality coming with 12cR2. In this one I will introduce two others : multi-column list partitioning and read-only partitions. Multi-column list partitioning Image : “Oracle Partitioning in Oracle Database 12c Release 2” – Hermann Bär With the first release of 12c it wasn’t possible to create list partitioned…
By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog, we talked about Fast-Start Failover with the MaxProtection mode. With Oracle 12.2 Oracle Data Guard now supports multiple failover targets in a fast-start failover configuration. Previous functionality allowed for only a single fast-start failover target. If the failover target was unable to meet the requirements for fast-start failover at the time of primary…
By William Sescu Temporary Tablespaces Groups exist for quite a while now (since 10gR2), but they are, for whatever reason not so often used. Personally, I think they are quite cool. Very easy to setup, and especially in big environments with a lot of parallel processing very useful. But this blog will not be about Temporary Tablespace Groups. They are…
By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 12.1 the one requirement to configure Fast-start Failover is to ensure the broker configuration is operating in either Maximum Availability mode or Maximum Performance mode. With 12.2 Fast-Start Failover can be now configured with the Maximum Protection Below our broker configuration DGMGRL> show configuration; Configuration – ORCL_DR Protection Mode: MaxPerformance Members: ORCL_SITE – Primary database…
By William Sescu For security reasons, you may want that your DataGuard operations are done with a different UNIX user and with a different Oracle user which is not so highly privileged like the SYSDBA. This is exactly where the SYSDG Administrative Privilege for Oracle Data Guard Operations comes into play. The SYSDG privilege is quite powerful and allows you…
By William Sescu In a DataGuard environment, by default, the password of the SYS user is used to authenticate redo transport sessions when a password file is used. But for security reasons you might not want to use such a high privileged user only for the redo transmission. To overcome this issue, Oracle has implemented the REDO_TRANSPORT_USER initialization parameter. The…
By Franck Pachot . Today at #ukoug_tech16 12:30 in hall 11A I’ll talk about Statistics Gathering Best Practice & 12cR2 Statistics Advisor Rather than taking the Optimizer Statistics Advisor rules one by one I’ll show the things to take care (some people may call it best practices) when gathering statistics and they mention the Statistics Advisor Rule. If you need…
By Franck Pachot . Upgrading from 12.1 to 12.2 is easy in Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS because you are in multitenant. Here is how to clone a 12.1 PDB to 12.2 service. I’ve a service HP121 in 12.1.0.2 with one pluggable database PDB1 and a service HP122 in 12.2.0.1 with an empty CDB (only CDB$ROOT and PDB$SEED containers). Export TDE…
By Franck Pachot . Easier than unplug/plug, you can move pluggable databases with remote cloning. It’s the same idea but you don’t have to manage the files yourself: the are shipped through database link. However, this uses the ‘remote file protocol’ and it fails with version mismatch: ORA-17628: Oracle error 17630 returned by remote Oracle server ORA-17630: Mismatch in the…
