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Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Good listening I thought about sharing with you. RSS Feed: Choiceology with Katy Milkman – Exposing the psychological traps that lead to expensive mistakes You can listen and subscribe to Choiceology...

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Local Install rlwrap for OEL 7.6

Installing rlwrap 7.6, requires python34 local install yum install rlwrap [root@SLC02PNY ~]# yum install rlwrap Loaded plugins: ulninfo Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check --->...

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RAC Installation Logs

Note to self for 2 Nodes RAC installation and DB creation logs location. Oracle Universal Installer logs for GI/DB: [oracle@racnode-dc1-1 logs]$ pwd; ls -lhrt /u01/app/oraInventory/logs total 2.3M...

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Shell Scripting Using set -v

set -v : Print shell input lines as they are read. show_gds_status.sh #!/bin/sh ############################## # GDSCTL> configure -width 132 # GDSCTL> configure -save_config...

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DGMGRL Using Help To Learn About New Validate Features

Wouldn’t be nicer and much better if Oracle would add (NF) for new features to help syntax? DGMGRL for Linux: Release 12.2.0.1.0 [oracle@db-fs-1 bin]$ ./dgmgrl / DGMGRL for Linux: Release 12.2.0.1.0 -...

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Delete MGMTDB and MGMTLSNR from OEM using emcli

Doc ID 1933649.1, MGMTDB and MGMTLSNR should not be monitored. $ grep oms /etc/oratab oms:/u01/middleware/13.2.0:N $ . oraenv <<< oms $ emcli login -username=SYSMAN Enter password : Login...

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Resize ACFS Volume

Current Filesystem for ACFS is 299G. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/asm/acfs_vol-177 299G 2.6G 248G 2% /ggdata02 Free_MB is 872 which causes paging due to insufficient FREE space from...

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Check Cluster Resources Where Target != State

Current version. [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 patch]$ cat /etc/oratab #Backup file is /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/srvm/admin/oratab.bak.racnode-dc2-1 line added by Agent -MGMTDB:/u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid:N...

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Rsync DBFS To ACFS For GoldenGate Trail Migration

Planning to move GoldenGate trail files from DBFS to ACFS. This is pre-work before actual migration to stress IO for ACFS. Learned some cron along the way. # Run every 2 hours at even hours 0 */2 * * *...

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Too Old To Remember

Is it required to run datapatch after creating database? Why bother trying to remember versus running datapatch -prereq to find out? Test case for 12.2. Database July 2019 Release Update 12.2 applied:...

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19c Grid Dry-Run Upgrade

First test using GUI. [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 grid]$ /u01/app/19.3.0.0/grid/gridSetup.sh -dryRunForUpgrade Launching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup Wizard... The response file for this session can be...

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Obvious But Not For Oracle Obviously

While dropping RAC database, I found error ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE – shut it down first from dbca log. Looking up error: Cause is obvious $ oerr ora 01081 01081, 00000, "cannot...

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Duplicate OMF DB Using Backupset To New Host And Directories

Database 12.1.0.2.0 is created using OMF. At SOURCE: db_create_file_dest=/u01/app/oracle/oradata db_recovery_file_dest=/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area At DESTINATION:...

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Be Careful When Subscribing To Oracle Learning Subscription

Subscribing to Oracle Learning Subscription seems good in theory but bad in reality. Oracle support informed. “Oracle University’s policy regarding Learning Subscription courseware materials is that...

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srvctl config all

Learned something new today and not sure if it’s new feature. Seems a lot easier to gather clusterware configuration using one command. Works with srvctl version: 18.0.0.0.0 or higher. 19c...

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Cloning Oracle Homes in 19c

You may find conflicting information from Oracle’s documentation where Cloning an Oracle Database Home shows to use clone.pl and Database Upgrade Guide 19c shows Deprecation of clone.pl Script To clone...

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Cloning Oracle Homes in 19c Part 2

You didn’t think there was going to be a part 2 did you? $ORACLE_HOME/log is not included in creategoldimage which makes perfect sense as I was discussing on twitter for having garbage in a gold image...

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What’s Taking So Long For Autoupgrade

Directory for autoupgrade/log: $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_UNQNAME/autoupgrade/log, where $ORACLE_UNQNAME=db_unique_name Create upgrade.config as shown:...

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Oracle Database 18c: New Features asmcmd

============================================================ NEW: ============================================================ [oracle@ol7-19-rac1 ~]$ asmcmd showversion ASM version : 19.4.0.0.0...

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The Many Ways To Sign-In To Oracle Cloud

When signing up for Oracle Cloud, Cloud Account Name must be provided. Login to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic using Cloud Account Name https://myservices-CloudAccountName.console.oraclecloud.com...

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