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RMAN Backup from Standby w Recovery Catalog
Apologies as this is not a very clean post as there is too much info to disseminate. Hopefully, the info may be useful at some point. Try connect using connect target sys/password@tns vs connect...
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RMAN Backup from Standby w Recovery Catalog Part 2
RMAN Backup from Standby w Recovery Catalog What! There’s a part 2? FRA from primary was getting full since archivelog deletion was not working. Why is there a need to delete archivelog since FRA...
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Bad Practice from Oracle – datapatch
Not too long ago, I discovered: dbca does hard coding Now it gets even worse. Create TEST environment. SOURCE ORACLE_HOME:/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_1 TARGET...
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Grid Infrastructure 12.2.0.1 CRS_SWONLY Silent Install
Configuring Software Binaries for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server CREATE DIRECTORIES AND oraInst.loc: [root@arrow1 ~]# id oracle uid=54321(oracle) gid=54321(oinstall)...
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Dedicated Network for DataGuard
Just some notes. Using a separate network for DataGuard in 12c RAC https://dbamarco.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/using-a-separate-network-for-dataguard-in-12c-rac/ PUTTING DATA GUARD TRAFFIC ON DEDICATED...
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Scheduler Jobs Do Not Run Automatically
After you have followed – IF: Jobs Do Not Run Automatically (Doc ID 2084527.1) – without any success, then check to see if services have been created and are running. RAC DB is 12.1.0.2.0 and was...
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Mining Goldgate ggserr.log
Can you imagine me running in circles shouting, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling?” Replicat Lag at Chkpt: 03:21:45 Here are the trail files at target – look at how fast it is being created. ls...
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SQLcl comes default with all DB/Client installs 12.2
I had tweeted, “Wouldn’t it be nice for SQL*Plus have auto size for columns vs having to manually configure each? Larry must have not used Excel before?” I learned, SQL*Plus does not have this...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Build Virtual 11.2.0.4 Oracle Restart
I am using oravirt vagrant boxes. https://github.com/oravirt/vagrantfile https://github.com/oravirt/vagrant-vbox-si-asm...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Update Opatch
[oracle@db-asm-1 ~]$ ps -ef|grep pmon oracle 1413 1 0 17:18 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_orclcdb oracle 10752 10731 0 17:52 pts/1 00:00:00 grep pmon oracle 24615 1 0 16:47 ? 00:00:00 asm_pmon_+ASM...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Why Upgrade Failed
I already know upgrade will fail and will reproduce to show how to resolve the issue. Curious how did it happened. Without the benefit of knowing what will happened, is there any way this could have...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Apply July 2017 PSU
Patches to apply before upgrading Oracle GI and DB to 12.2.0.1 (Doc ID 2180188.1) GI PSU 22646198 11.2.0.4.160419 (Apr 2016) Grid Infrastructure Patch Set Update (GI PSU) Recommended to install latest*...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Preparation for 12.2 Upgrade
This is exactly what I did last time and upgrade will fail due to compatible.asm=11.2.0.0.0 Goal now is to now to detect and prevent the failure. Let’s see if ORAchk – Health Checks for the Oracle...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – ORAchk Failed To Detect compatible.asm=11.2.0.0.0 Issue
Ran orachk and it did not detect compatibility issues. ./orachk -u -o pre WARNING OS Check Package cvuqdisk-1.0.9-1-x86_64 is recommended but NOT installed All Database Servers WARNING OS Check Package...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Failed GRID Upgrade from 11.2.0.4 to 12.2.0.1
Oracle Restart Upgrade Failed simply because CRS diskgroup is OFFLINE. ora.CRS.dg OFFLINE OFFLINE db-asm-1 STABLE Resolution coming up. Upgrade Log [oracle@db-asm-1 ~]$ crsctl query has releaseversion...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Troubleshooting FAILED GRID Upgrade from 11.2.0.4 to...
First, I am very thankful to all the bloggers out there. It would have been nearly impossible to find resolution on one’s own. ASM not starting with ORA-00845 – how to fix ASM parameter file One issue...
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Upgrade 12.2 Journey – Fixing MEMORY_TARGET
As it turns out, root cause for MEMORY_TARGET is due to configuration. Setting SQL> alter system set memory_target=0 scope=spfile; was the initial work around, the better solution is to fix root...
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No Guarantees with opatch -report or CheckConflict
I have performed the following checks. # $GRID_HOME/OPatch/opatch auto /media/swrepo/JUL2017PSU/26030799 -report -ocmrf /tmp/ocm.rsp $ $GRID_HOME/OPatch/opatch prereq CheckConflictAgainstOHWithDetail...
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Cloning Goldengate Integrated Capture and DB
Using DBMS_STREAMS_ADM To Cleanup GoldenGate Let’s say you want to clone DB and Goldengate implementation from PROD to DEV, then you need to drop the capture that was registered with PROD database....
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