Those days I was challenging myself to make an exact match and correlate all lines returned by a select on v$sga, v$sgainfo and v$sgastat. The biggest problem on those v$ views is that they bring different visions of the same thing (SGA), and I could never make a exact match of the bytes before. Now …
Category: Oracle Database General
Oracle Database General
May 25
Oracle 12.1.0.2 CDB creation - catcdb.sql returning ORA-22288 or ORA-29548
Those days I was trying to create an Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 CDB using only sqlplus in a Oracle Linux 6.5 64 bits. So after issuing the CREATE DATABASE command, it was time to create all the dictionary: $ sqlplus / as sysdba @?/rdbms/admin/catcdb.sql However, something was going wrong because both Oracle Java and Oracle Multimedia …
May 10
Where is Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 April 2017 PSU ?
Oracle 12.2 database is already available for more than 3 months. As expected, the first Patch Set for a given Release comes with a lot of bugs and we want as soon as possible a PSU to close all those gaps. However, I couldn't find the PSU for the 12.2 version on the quarterly April 2017 …
Aug 16
Oracle Scheduler Jobs and Database Vault
As everybody knows, the "Oracle Scheduler" is the official task manager for an Oracle Database. It is a robust and complex tool, allowing the user to create chains, parameterized intervals on several types of metrics, execution windows, etc. In most cases, when a job is created, modified and executed by its owner, there are not many …
Aug 11
AWR snapshots not being generated even though it's enabled
Those days, I was facing an issue in my Oracle Database 11.2.0.4. My AWR Snapshots were not being generated even though it was full enabled. I did some checks to be sure I had no issues: Checked that I had enough free space on SYSAUX tablespace. I was using only 5GB of the total 15GB. My control_management_pack_access was …