Online Storage Migration without ASM
I recently blogged about Playing with ASM Online Migration and still soul searching from not having jumped on the ASM band wagon.How can online storage migration be performed before ASM came about? One...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Active DB Duplication Goes Wrong?
There are many blog posts out there about active database duplication. However, they were all tested in an ideal environment or condition. What happens when a tablespace is created during the middle of...
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Automating DataPump Export
What’s the most elaborate thing you have done with DataPump?So there I was, given the requirement to export multiple partitions for multiple tables where each partition has its own dump file having the...
View ArticleRMAN – Validating Archivelog Backup
There are many posts out there about validating backup. However, none seem to address some recent concerns a client of mine had.Currently, backup validation is performed once a week and the question...
View ArticleRMAN Infatuation?
Lately, I am becoming infatuated with RMAN again.Have you ever run “restore database preview”?Are you curious about how the recovery SCN are determined?Media recovery start SCN is 1515046 Recovery must...
View ArticleWhat Does oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall Not Do?
I was working on a project to clone Oracle install to a new Linux server and this should be simple as oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall RPM can be used to configure the server, right?So simple that...
View ArticleHow To Correlate Oracle Database Transaction with GoldenGate
So there I was troubleshooting GoldenGate issue and was puzzled as to why GoldenGate transactions were not seen from Oracle database.I had the transaction XID correct; however, I was filtering by...
View ArticleExploring Options of Using RMAN Configure to Simplify Backup
I am a simple person who likes simple things, especially RMAN backup implementation.I have yet to understand why RMAN backup implementation does not use configure command, and if you have a good...
View ArticleCreate Windows Service for Oracle RAC
It’s my first time on RAC system for Windows and I’m happy to learn something new to share.I created a new service for database (restoredb) only to find out the ORACLE_HOME for the service is...
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