trail

Deleting GoldenGate trail files via the REST API (OGG-30375)

When automating your GoldenGate deployments, or tearing down a test environment, handling trail files is important. In fact, deleting an extract or a replicat does not delete the trail files it was writing to or reading from. It leaves(…)

GoldenGate extract abending on NFS trail: OGG-02897 / OGG-01668 Input/Output Error

While working on a client’s GoldenGate 26ai environment, I ran into a NFS-related replication issue that could have been serious, had it happened in production. Here is what happened and how the issue was fixed. The client’s GoldenGate(…)

GoldenGate trail purge task fails with “OGG-12111: JSON element ‘/csn’ does not match any schemas”

Since the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to upgrade many GoldenGate setups to 26ai. On two of them, I was facing an issue regarding purge tasks that I could not solve. Since it took quite some(…)

Relocate trail files with convchk when migrating GoldenGate to the Microservices Architecture

Depending on the location of your GoldenGate trail files, you might have to use the convchk utility to relocate them before migrating to the Microservices Architecture. Oracle has the following restrictions for using the(…)