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RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile # found to restore
There’s a great note from MOS – Checklist for an RMAN Restore (Doc ID 1554636.1) but how many of you review this before performing a restore? If you don’t then you are as guilty as I am. RMAN>...
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restore validate archivelog
A common mistake I see in backup validation is not validating archivelog or Level 1 backup. Here I will demonstrate various methods to validate achivelog. Validate archivelog and does not list details...
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Be Careful when using FRA with Streams
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 – 64bit Production select state from gv$streams_capture; STATE...
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Find Users with DBA Roles
This sounds like a simple request doesn’t it? Simple if there are no roles which are granted DBA role and allow me to show what can go wrong. Create ROLE “secret”, Grant DBA to “secret”, Grant “secret”...
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In Search of Standing Desk
I came across Evodesk Standing Desk Review http://www.workwhilewalking.com/evodesk-standing-desk-review Could not resist the temptation but reach out to @TreadmillDesker You bark loud but how is...
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Backup file using copy with date append
How many ways are there to backup a file? Copy and append .bak, .sav, .orig, etc … I was looking for a simple, consistent, yet elegant way to do this. Good thing for Google (disclaimer I do own the...
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Find Contents of RMAN backuppiece
RMAN backuppiece listings from OS oracle@arrow:hawklas:/home/oracle $ ll /oradata/backup/ total 216088 -rw-r-----. 1 oracle oinstall 1212416 May 5 11:06 DBF_HAWK_3130551611_20150505_hjq65thu_1_1_KEEP...
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First Impression for Evodesk Desktop Unboxing
Disclaimer: I am not being paid by anyone to write positive or negative review. Opinions are my own based on my limited engineering background. First, packaging is somewhat poor and could be much...
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Part1 Configuration Evodesk
Installation was not bad. Evodesk is the 2nd company I am aware of for using recesss nuts for desktop installation. This makes much more sense than using wood screws. However, pondering if Evodeskk...
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Warning: standby redo logs not configured for thread – BUG
Surprise to find the following error for single instance Data Guard environment: Warning: standby redo logs not configured for thread 3 on boston This will be fixed with an upcoming patch for the...
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Not Another dbms_redefinition Post
If you follow me on twitter at all, then you will realize I often rant about how demos are too simplistic and do not represent real world issues. Please allow me to demonstrate how to partitioning an...
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Linux Locking using flock
I am faced with a situation on how to creating locking mechanism for RMAN backup. Script dbf.sh backups database and can be run simutaneously if it’s not for the same database. Hence dbf.sh sh running...
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X-Window Fun
When ssh -X to another host, I am able to use X-Windows. [dinh@ca01ts~]$ ssh -X dinh@192.168.1.137 dinh@192.168.1.137's password: Last login: Fri Aug 21 11:55:47 2015 from 10.237.102.38 /usr/bin/xauth:...
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Monitoring RMAN Operations
Just a reference to source and my version of the script. This is for restore since there are OUTPUTS. Script to monitor RMAN Backup and Restore Operations (Doc ID 1487262.1) $ sqlplus / as sysdba...
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Scaling Export and Import Tables Residing in Different Schemas 10gR2
Our team was tasked to unpartion all partition tables. Import: Release 11.2.0.4.0 has PARTITION_OPTIONS=DEPARTITION but we are on Release 10.2.0.4.0 The first step was to find all schemas with...
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SQL Profile and Plan Baseline Notes
Optimizer with Oracle Database 12c Oracle White Paper – June 2013 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bi-datawarehousing/twp-optimizer-with-oracledb-12c-1963236.pdf What is the difference...
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Using sed to format controlfile trace
Do you find it cumbersome having to format controlfile trace? For the most part, it’s a manual and tedious process. Using sed, it may be possible to automate task. RESUSE overwrites existing...
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Using dynamic variables for shell scripting
So you may ask, why go through all the trouble? Have you ever had to move scripts from one directory to another to find out the script is now broken? This is due to the hard coding of the location for...
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Learning opatch
For most of you, this is probably trivial. Needed to get a list of patches for 4-nodes Exadata. I saw co-worker ssh to each node, source ASM, database environment, run opatch command. Thinking out...
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Not Another dbms_redefinition Post
If you follow me on twitter at all, then you will realize I often rant about how demos are too simplistic and do not represent real world issues. Please allow me to demonstrate how to partitioning an...
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