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January 2012

Bug fixes

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Tue, 2012-01-31 18:37

From MOS (Metalink) a search for “Patch Set – List of Bug Fixes by Problem” is a useful search, andother is “Availability and Known Issues”. Whenever you find some behaviour that looks like a bug, it’s worth checking the patch sets for the patches or release that are newer than the version that you’re running – you may find that your problem is a known bug with a patch that might be back-ported.

For ease of reference, here are some of the results I got (sorted in reverse order of version) from the searches; you will need a MOS account to follow the links:

AllThingsOracle.com

Submitted by randolf.geist on Mon, 2012-01-30 20:59

I've been asked and agreed to contribute to "AllThingsOracle.com", a service set up by RedGate software for Oracle users.

I'll publish there complete articles not found on my blog and also sometimes just links to my blog. Furthermore I also plan to contribute some webinars, so stay tuned. In the meanwhile you may want to have a look at the archived video material already available where you for example can watch webinars featuring Cary Millsap and others.

Whereas on my blog I often focus on highlighting edge cases my articles and webinars on AllThingsOracle.com are more targeted towards explaining fundamentals.

Index Hash

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Mon, 2012-01-30 18:12

You might think from the title that this little note is going to be about the index hash join – you would be half right, it’s also about how the optimizer seems to make a complete hash of dealing with index hash joins.

Let’s set up a simple data set and a couple of indexes so that we can take a closer look:

EMC Oracle-Related Reading Material of Interest.

Submitted by kevinclosson on Mon, 2012-01-30 15:22

Lately I’ve been reading a lot more than writing as is evident by my low-frequency blogging. Here is some of the material I’ve been going through:

Oracle 11.2.0.3 client not relinking properly

Submitted by martin.bach on Mon, 2012-01-30 11:57

One of the tasks I am performing quite regularly is to deploy Oracle software in form of an RPM. In a previous post I described how this proces could work, based on a post by Frits Hoogland.

Employing the same method, I ran into problems with Oracle 11.2.0.x clients. A few facts to start with:

  • Oracle 11.2.0.3 client 64bit
  • Golden image created on Oracel Linux 5
  • Destination: SuSE Enterprise 10 SP4

The problem described here is most likely applicable to other Oracle clients as well although I haven’t verified that.

The problem

Parent-Child Relationships and the Questions Left Unanswered by TKPROF, Re-Learning Something Old

Submitted by Charles Hooper on Mon, 2012-01-30 06:00

January 30, 2012 As we have seen in the past, TKPROF output sometimes lies, and in a recent OTN thread I was reminded of another case or two where TKPROF output may be misleading.  In the OTN thread, the original poster (OP) started the thread by asking a simple question about an execution plan that appeared [...]

FRM-92095: Oracle Jnitiator version too low - please install version 1.1.8.2 or higher

Submitted by kurtvm on Sun, 2012-01-29 17:07
A customer of mine who deploys Oracle Forms 10g  on the wild wild web, ran into a little problem.
They don't have control over the java plugin being installed on the client machine and with the latest java 1.7 update
they encountered the following forms error :
FRM-92095: Oracle Jnitiator version too low - please install version 1.1.8.2 or higher
Doh - we're running java 1.7 - not Oracle's obscure Jnitiator.
This seems to be a know issue on metalink see 
FRM-92095 Error When Running Forms Using JRE 7 (JRE 1.7) [ID 1348436.1]
A bug has been filed Bug:11782681 APPS6: FORMS DO NOT LAUNCH WITH BETA JRE 1.7

Statement level constraint consistency

Submitted by Toon.Koppelaars on Sun, 2012-01-29 16:13

In the past week I've been investigating how Oracle fires triggers with the Merge and Multi-Table-Insert statements. Also took a look at 'statement-level constraint consistency' with these two types of statements. My findings are here: http://rulegen.blogspot.com/2012/01/statement-level-constraint-validation.html

Normal transmission on harmful triggers should resume shortly.

Did you know the cluvfy healthcheck?

Submitted by martin.bach on Sat, 2012-01-28 22:02

While I was performing a three day seminar recently in Switzerland I came across this new option in cluvfy.

Normally you’d run cluvfy in preparation of the installation of Grid Infrastructure or a set of RAC binaries to ensure everything is ready for the next step in the RAC install process. Beginning with 11.2.0.3, there is another option that’s been sneaked in without too much advertisement: the healthcheck.

Part of the “comp” checks, it takes the following options:

cluvfy comp healthcheck [-collect {cluster|database}] [-db db_unique_name] [-bestpractice|-mandatory] [-deviations] [-html] [-save [-savedir directory_path]

The most extensive report is run without any options, as shown in the appendix (the output is too long to display at this stage of the post) You have the following options:

Purrpetual Motion

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Fri, 2012-01-27 19:19

This is a really old idea – but it’s the first time I’ve seen it illustrated.

(The obvious flaw in the concept appears  in comment 22.)