Out of Place (OOP) Patching of Oracle Restart 26ai
Previous posts showed OOP for 19c and 21c Oracle restart. Things are even simpler with 26ai.The current patch level is #myDIV { border: 1px solid black; background-color: white; overflow: scroll; }...
View ArticleUpgrading Oracle Restart from 19c to 26ai on RHEL 8
This post shows the steps for upgrading the grid infrastructure portion of 19c Oracle Restart to 26ai.The current patch level on GI is RU 19.29.$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lspatches 38380425;TOMCAT...
View ArticleUpgrading Enterprise Manager Cloud Control from 13.5 to 24.1 - 3
This is the third post on upgrading EMCC from 13.5 to 24.1. Previous posts showed how to complete the pre-req work and upgrade the EM. This post shows how to upgrade the agents to 24.1. This post shows...
View ArticleUpgrading Enterprise Manager Cloud Control from 13.5 to 24.1 - 2
This is the second post on upgrading EMCC from 13.5 to 24.1. The previous post mentioned pre-req tasks to be carried out before the installation. The approach used in this case consists of two phase....
View ArticleUpgrading Enterprise Manager Cloud Control from 13.5 to 24.1 - 1
This is the first post on upgrading EM Cloud Control (EMCC) from 13.5 to 24.1. The upgrade steps mentioned here have been tried on a system that has the repository database in a PDB. This post looks at...
View ArticleUnified Audit Relink is looking for gcc after applying RU 19.29
Following error was observed while relinking for unified audit option after applying RU 19.29.echo $ORACLE_HOME /opt/app/oracle/product/19.29.0/dbhome_1 cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib make -f ins_rdbms.mk...
View Article23ai JDBC Driver Does Not Consider RETRY_COUNT and RETRY_DELAY
RETRY_COUNT and RETRY_DELAY are key to setting up JDBC client failover setup. Adjusting these parameters allow connection pool to wait for the duration planned outtage without issuing an error message....
View ArticleRestore Standby Database from Standby Backups
This post shows the steps for full restoring (controlfile + data files) for a standby database using standby database backups. The same could be achieved using restore from service (2283978.1)....
View ArticleOut of Place (OOP) Patching of Oracle Restart 21c
Previous post showed OOP for 19c Oracle restart. Things are much simpler in 21c and can expect the same for 23c once released. The -switchGridHome option is supported for Oracle Restart in 21c (Oracle...
View ArticleUpgrading 11.2.0.4 to 19c Using AutoUpgrade
There is an earlier post which shows how to upgrade 11.2 Oracle restart to 19c. However, in that post the database was upgraded using DBUA and left as a non-CDB. Autoupgrade (AU) could also be used to...
View ArticleUpgrade from 19c to 21c Using Autoupgrade
This post shows the steps for upgrading a 19c database (CDB + PDB) with autoupgrade tool. There's an earlier post which shows upgrading PDB form 19c to 21 using unplug-plug-upgrade method. If any...
View ArticleOut of Place (OOP) Patching of Oracle Restart
Oracle grid infrastructure deployed in a RAC configuration has the option switchGridHome for out of place patching. But this option doesn't work with Oracle restart../gridSetup.sh -silent...
View ArticleUnplug-Plug-Upgrade from 19c to 21c Using Autoupgrade
This post shows the steps for upgrading a 19c PDB with autoupgrade tool using the unplug-plug-uprade method. The 21c CDB is called cdb21c and 19c CDB is called testcdb. The PDB that will be unpluged...
View ArticleActive Data Guard instances are not supported with DBMS_ROLLING
There is an earlier post on how to use dbms_rolling for database upgrade. The configuration used in that post consists of two instances. The data guard configuration this post is based on had three...
View ArticleFar Sync Targets are not Discovered Correctly by OEM Auto Discovery Process
If there are far sync instances in a data guard configuration then those will not be correctly identified as far sync instances by the OEM target discovery process. There were two posts related to the...
View ArticleThe controlfile sequence# has now reached architectural limit
A test database (an out of support 11.2.0.4) running in noarchive log mode had the following message on the alert log.*************************************************************************ATTENTION:...
View ArticleUpgrading Oracle Restart from 19c to 21c on RHEL 7
This post shows the steps for upgrading the grid infrastructure portion of 19c Oracle Restart to 21c.1. The current Oracle restart configuration is as below.Resource Name Type Target State...
View ArticleInitiating Switchover on a Physical Standby
It seems the best instance to intiaiate the switchover changes based on whether data guard broker is used or not. Oracle documentation states when performing switchover using SQL, the switchover...
View ArticleATP Auto Indexing
ATP DB has the ability to automatically create indexes based on the improvment those indexes would bring to the query execution. This post explore the usage of this feature. By default auto indexing is...
View ArticlePoint-in-Time Recovery of Tables
Oracle allows point in time recovery of tables from backup. In high-level the recover table command creates an auxiliary instance (and the PDB) and export the table(s) to a dump file or import into the...
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