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April 2014

REPVFY Diagnostics, Part II of a Zillion

Submitted by dbakevlar on Tue, 2014-04-29 21:40

We are back to REPVFY, (Repository Verification Utility) this week, (first post can be found here…)  And I’m onto the next file of substance since looking at the advisor log, (performance data).  The next files are the two “details” files.  One is a query used to produce the output and the second is the actual output

Want Peace in the Middle East? The Palestinians CAN Cause it to Happen

Submitted by mwf on Tue, 2014-04-29 14:54

Want peace in the Middle East? It is actually pretty simple, but the best solution requires the Palestinians to unilaterally do something BOLDLY PEACEFUL. I promise you this will work: Get your folks together. Talk them into disarming and being the model of civility beyond any requirements of Israel for commerce, border crossing, WHATEVER. Invite their security forces in, all the way to your borders to protect you from external issues. Challenge your people to be easy to protect and civil and challenge Israel to protect you. Israel will relish the extra territorial distance from attack and the cost of providing security will pale compared to its value. Then make a long declaration of tolerance. Absurdly long. Let’s say 49 years. Challenge your people to suspend any and all aggressive acts for 49 years and to just play ball.

Bigfiles

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Tue, 2014-04-29 14:12

It’s always the combinations that catch you out.

Bigfile tablespaces have their uses – especially in big systems

Materialized views have their users – especially in big systems

There’s absolutely no reason why the two technologies should interfere with each other … until you find a bug !

Running an example, stripped to the bare minimum, and doing a couple of things that I personally don’t like doing, on 11.2.0.4:

Oracle 11gR2 and 12cR1 on Oracle Linux 7 beta

Submitted by oraclebase on Mon, 2014-04-28 19:00

I’ve been having a play with Oracle Linux 7 beta over the weekend. Not surprisingly my first thoughts were to install the Oracle database on it.

As expected, the installations were almost identical or Fedora 19.

RAC 12c enhancements: adding an additional SCAN-part 2

Submitted by martin.bach on Mon, 2014-04-28 15:15

In the first part of this article you could read how to add an additional network resource, additional VIPs and SCAN to an 12.1.0.1.2 cluster. In this part I hope to show you the next steps such as adding the SCAN listeners and other resources.

New SCAN listener

With the second SCAN added it is time to add the next set of SCAN listeners. This is really simple, and here is the code to add them:

[oracle@ron12cprinode1 ~]# srvctl add scan_listener -netnum 2 -listener dgscanlsnr

After starting the SCAN listeners on network 2, I can see they are indeed working correctly:

RAC 12c enhancements: adding an additional SCAN-part 2

Submitted by martin.bach on Mon, 2014-04-28 15:15

In the first part of this article you could read how to add an additional network resource, additional VIPs and SCAN to an 12.1.0.1.2 cluster. In this part I hope to show you the next steps such as adding the SCAN listeners and other resources.

New SCAN listener

With the second SCAN added it is time to add the next set of SCAN listeners. This is really simple, and here is the code to add them:

[oracle@ron12cprinode1 ~]# srvctl add scan_listener -netnum 2 -listener dgscanlsnr

After starting the SCAN listeners on network 2, I can see they are indeed working correctly:

Systemtap revisited

Submitted by fritshoogland on Sun, 2014-04-27 16:29

Some time back, I investigated the options to do profiling of processes in Linux. One of the things I investigated was systemtap. After careful investigation I came to the conclusion that systemtap was not really useful for my investigations, because it only worked in kernelspace, only very limited in userspace. The limitation of working in userspace was that you had to define your own markers in the source code of the program you wanted to profile with systemtap and compile that. Since my investigations are mostly around Oracle products, which are closed source, this doesn’t help me at all.

Dumb triggers part 2 – session level control

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Sat, 2014-04-26 05:10

In the previous post, I pontificated about triggers that "lock you in" to having them fire, which can create dramas when it comes to doing data patching.

Maybe you can design your application around this, but if you cant, the last thing you want to be doing is having to take an outage so that you can disable the trigger whilst you do your data maintenance.  Ideally you want the trigger to fire as per normal, except in your session. 

And that’s actually pretty easy to do.  A simple example is below

ASH Analytics- Viewing Activity Combinations

Submitted by dbakevlar on Fri, 2014-04-25 23:28

When working with Top Activity, we’re accustomed to viewing to wait class in the top, graphed area and below left, the top SQL by SQL_ID and below right is our Top Session information.  ASH Analytics was designed so you would enter into a view that looked very similar to Top Activity, but was enhanced so the user could update it to view the data in multiple ways.

Creating Controlfile From Scratch when No Backup is Available

Submitted by arupnanda on Fri, 2014-04-25 20:21

You have lost the controlfile, the catalog and the backup to the controlfile too; so restoring the controlfile from a previous backup is not an option. How can you recover the database? By creating the controlfile from scratch. Interested in learning how? Read on.