In this blog post, I am going to describe a strange error with OPatch while I was trying to deploy a new Oracle Home to one of our VM clusters.
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Datapatch fails with ORA-27476
Today I stumbled about a very strange error while applying a release update to a 19c database. Datapatch fails with an ORA-27476 error. In this blog post, I want to show how to get rid of this error and how to identify objects in the database which may cause it.
Continue readingAnalyze raw trace files with SQL Developer
Since version 1.5 the Oracle SQL Developer has the capability to view and analyze raw trace files in an interactive way. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to use this very unknown feature.
Continue readingCleanup of TEMPORARY segments
In this short blog post, I will explain how to get rid of TEMPORARY segments in a permanent tablespace.
Continue readingKeep RMAN Auxiliary Instance after failure
In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to keep an automatically created RMAN Auxiliary Instance after a failure occurred.
Continue readingORA-65118 during RESTORE FOREIGN DATAFILE/TABLESPACE
Starting with 12c Transportable Tablespaces can be combined with incremental backups to reduce the amount of time required to copy the Datafiles from the source to the target location. To do this RESTORE FOREIGN DATAFILE resp. TABLESPACE commands were introduced for RMAN. In this blog post, I will show an issue when a backup of an 11.2.0.4 database is used as a source and a 19c PDB is used as target.
Continue readingALERT: opatch util cleanup deletes OS files in 12.2.0.1.19
With the release of the January patches, Oracle released version 12.2.0.1.19 of OPatch. In this specific release, the execution of opatch util cleanup deletes OS files outside the Oracle home directory structure. Thanks to my colleague Miguel for pointing this out.
Continue readingInsufficient SRLs reported by DGMGRL
This is a short blog post about a small issue with the reporting of Standby Redo Logs in DGMGRL during the validation of a database.
Continue readingSymbolic Links in DIRECTORY Objects not permitted with Oracle 18c/19c
With every new release behavior changes are introduced. This applies to 18c/19c as well. I want to blog about a behavior change related to the usage of symbolic links in directory paths.
Continue readingChange output language of srvctl
During my development of TVD-Backup I wanted to implement a new subroutine for parsing the output of a srvctl config database command. The first tests on Linux were successful, but the same tests on a Windows system with a German locale failed. After a few minutes of investigation, I found out, that the output of the srvctl was in a different language then expected. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to change the output language of srvctl.
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