Cloud tools are not known to provide huge amount of details when you have an error.In this case we were running patching prechecks which were failing with: Checking log, se can see error was given while trying to execute “select status from pdb_plug_in_violations where type = ‘ERROR’ and status = ‘PENDING’ order by name, time;”... » read more
Starting from 12c, RMAN allows to perform a Table Point In Time Recovery (PITR).On earlier releases, this was only possible by manually creating a point in time clone of the database and extracting the data via datapump.With this “new” feature, life gets easier. SETUP:For this task we are assuming you have your DB/ARCHIVE log backups... » read more
This is a weird case we had for a Customer where DB/PDB’s were running fine and after a restart, one of the PDB’s went to restricted YES.We don’t know why it went to restricted mode because there hasn’t been a patching activity for a while and DB had few restarts in the past with no... » read more
This wait can have an impact to production and deteriorate performance on a DB, so lets investigate… Lets see the output from a AWR report where this event is 23% of the total wait time: As per “Analyzing ‘enq: HW – contention’ Wait Event (Doc ID 740075.1)”, this can be generated by multiple sessions fighting... » read more
This is an easy one that will save you going through alert logs.
Sometimes you might get an incident for high usage on a filesystem. You check and yes, filesystem usage is high, but ‘du’ (disk usage) if different. why? Some explanations might say: they don’t use the same methods or metrics to calculate what they are reporting.Yes, that’s true, but pretty much outputs should be the same.If... » read more
This error usually is because of password file mismatch: someone updated in primary and forgot to pass across to standby nodes, missed a node… but what if password file in primary and standby is the same? In this case, password files are correct so PRIMARY should not have issues sending logs,right? But no, instead it... » read more
Lets suppose you have been requested to refresh a TEST/DEV Database and you don’t have access to the source DB, just access to the backups someone created. In this case, this is a Windows environment and we are going to assume the following information: DB and Archive log backups located under: “D:\RMAN\Backup\”Control file backup to... » read more
If you have set use_large_pages=ONLY, server need to have enough huge pages to allocate the SGA in the number of pages available, if not, you might get this error while trying to start instance: In this system you have only enough pages to allocate 17G and you require 28G, not good.How do you fix? You... » read more
Here an easy script to run a backup an in this case with a 30 day retention: