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ODA 19.30 prepatch report failing on OS patches
I had to recently patch several ODAs from 19.28 to 19.30, and one ODA patching failed running the prepatch report which is mandatory and helpful before going to patch the ODA. For each step (server,...
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I was recently doing some consulting on some ODA at one of our customers, and I faced an issue with the DCS Agent and the MySQL Metadata Store. In this blog, I will show you the problem and how I...
View ArticleExascale new clone and snapshot capabilities
One of the most game changing capabilities of Exascale are the new clone and snapshot features compared to previous options available with ASM / ACFS. And since the business requirements for clones or...
View ArticleAutoUpgrade powered easy download and installation of Oracle AI Database 26ai...
With latest versions of AutoUpgrade, downloading and installing Oracle AI Database 26ai on Linux x86 on-premise has become a very simple process. If you want to give a try to Oracle Database 26ai,...
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Zabbix – Oracle backups monitoring
If your Oracle database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode, monitoring your backups is essential.Without proper backup supervision, the Fast Recovery Area (FRA) can eventually become full, which may block...
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Oracle Forms & Reports 14.1.2 Patching Issue
During a recent maintenance activity, I patched an Oracle Forms & Reports 14.1.2 environment on Linux. The patching itself completed successfully, but immediately after the restart, Oracle Reports...
View ArticleTemporary tablespace and ODA 19.31.
I recently patched Oracle Database Appliances (ODAs) to 19.31. For DBs with more than 1 tempfile in the temporary tablespace I got an error during the “odacli update-dbhome” : # odacli describe-job -i...
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Oracle: Standard Edition 2 available with 23.26.3.?
When downloading Release Update 23.26.3., I could see this: As you can see in the Product info it also has “Oracle Server – Standard Edition”. However, I haven’t found anything official yet. I tried...
View ArticleChecking Long Running Transactions in GoldenGate
When doing complex operations with GoldenGate, checking for long running transactions is mandatory if you don’t want to miss transactions. Let’s look at two ways of retrieving such information, first...
View ArticleFixing ORA-00904 on Oracle hidden columns during SSMA data migration
SSMA (SQL Server Migration Assistant) handles the whole Oracle-to-SQL Server move: it reads the source data dictionary, converts the schema, then generates a SELECT per table to pull the rows across....
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