Oracle 18c
Statspack with Oracle Database 19c and Multitenant
Introduction When it comes to performance analysis on Oracle databases, everybody think about Diagnostic Pack. This is a very complete tool and it brings much more metrics than a DBA can analyze. But there is a big drawback with this tool: it’s not included in Standard Edition and it’s an option with Enterprise Edition. If you don’t have this tool,…
Move a PDB from a server to another one using NFS
Introduction Multitenant brings new possibilities regarding Oracle databases, and one of them is to move a database from a container to another quite easily. When containers are on the same server, it’s very easy, but when the containers are on different servers, you will need to use a database link or an RMAN restore. But there is also another solution…
5 things that aren’t true about RMAN
Introduction RMAN backups are not a hot topic today. This is because it didn’t evolve that much in 12c/18c/19c, and most of the databases are now protected by a good backup strategy since years, and no changes are needed. Furthermore, Disaster Recovery solutions are more and more deployed, and all the flashback technologies embeded in the database are well known.…
Is it possible to switch a service between 2 pluggable databases?
Introduction In an Oracle database, services have multiple purposes: identifying group of users prior authenticating them enabling/disabling access to a database for particular groups managing preferred nodes on a RAC configuration redirecting users to the primary after a switchover/failover when using Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby redirecting read only connections to Standby database with Active Guard option A customer asked…
Oracle 18c – select from a flat file
By Franck Pachot . This post is the first one from a series of small examples on recent Oracle features. My goal is to present them to people outside of Oracle and relational databases usage, maybe some NoSQL players. And this is why the title is “select from a flat-file” rather than “Inline External Tables”. In my opinion, the names…
Speed up datapump export for migrating big databases
Introduction Big Oracle databases (several TB) are still tough to migrate to another version on a new server. For most of them, you’ll probably use RMAN restore or Data Guard, but datapump is always a cleaner way to migrate. With datapump, you can easily migrate to a new filesystem (ASM for example), rethink your tablespace organization, reorganize all the segments,…
Focus on 19c NOW!
Introduction For years, Oracle used the same mechanism for database versioning. A major version, represented by the first number. And then a release number, 1 for the very first edition, and a mature and reliable release 2 for production databases. Both of them having patchsets (the last number) and regular patchset updates (the date optionally displayed at the end) to…
Migrating Oracle database from windows to ODA
Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago). Both windows databases and target ODA databases are running PSU 11.2.0.4.190115. But this would definitively also be working for oracle…
Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure on Windows Server
By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle Grid Infrastucture can be installed on Windows platform. The steps are the same that on other platforms. In this blog we are going to install Oracle GI 18c on Windows 2016.I have two disks on my server Disk 0 : for the system Disk 1 : for the ASM I am using a VirtualBox virtual machine.…
When you change the UNDO_RETENTION parameter, the LOB segment’s retention value is not modified
Below, I will try to explain, a particular case for the general error : ORA-01555 snapshot too old error.. Normally, when we have this error, we are trying to adapt the retention parameters or to tune our queries. SQL> show parameter undo; NAME TYPE VALUE ———————————— ———– —————————— temp_undo_enabled boolean FALSE undo_management string AUTO undo_retention integer 3600 –extended from 900,…
How to patch your ODA lite to 18.3.0.0.0
Even you don’t need 18c, or you’re not ready for this release, this patch will also update your 11gR2, 12cR1 and 12cR2 databases to the latest PSU available on ODA, it means for example the patchset from last July if you’re using 12cR1. Here is how to apply this latest patch for your ODA lite. In this example, the patch…