Duplication of Oracle database on same node/cluster with skip of tablespaces
In this blog post I want to write about a typical restore scenario. You need to restore a database to a historical point in time to investigate some former data or maybe even rescue some data, but need to leave the source database intact. So…
PDBs kopieren: SQL vs. RMAN
Seit der Version 12.2 der Oracle Datenbank kann man mittels des SQL-Befehles “CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE” eine PDB in eine andere CDB kopieren. Mit der Version 18c kam der RMAN-Befehl “DUPLICATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE” hinzu. Worin unterscheiden sich diese beiden Varianten des “Remote Copy” und welche ist…
‘ORA-19909: datafile 1 belongs to an orphan incarnation’ during duplicate for standby
Some time ago my colleague Pavel Tolstorukov asked me for help with failing DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE FOR STANDBY FROM ACTIVE DATABASE. The problem appeared during the recovery phase. The exact error looked like below: We worked on this together and were able to identify the…
Data Guard – Definition of Online Redo Logs is “broken” after duplicate for standby
Hi there, today is the 1st birthday of a service request with Oracle I opened for which I see no progress since quite a while. I raised it exactly one year ago, on Oct 2nd 2019. There were some activity in last October, November mostly…
Preplugin Backups and the Missing Piece
Subheading 1: Preplugin Backups for non-CDB to PDB Conversions and the RMAN-06054 Subheading 2: PrePlugin Backups and the need for “Trick 17” The following is coming from a customer project. Imagine you have a huge non-CDB database, assume some terabytes. And you want to bring…
Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part II
In my previous post I shared some findings on migrating user and application data between platforms with different endianness, focusing on problems with reducing downtime. Today I’ll talk more about the complexity of chosen method. It’s not only about complexity per se, it’s rather about…
Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part I
One can find a lot of sources and materials regarding migrating Oracle databases between platforms having different endianness, even though the choice of possible methods is limited in this case. On paper (slides?) everything looks fine, but then you hit bugs or environment-specific problems. Moreover,…
Migrating from Windows to Linux with Active Duplicate for standby – problem with 11.2.0.4
Recently I was working on migrating Oracle 11.2.0.4 database running on Windows, to new hardware infrastructure on Linux. This Oracle version is with us for quite a long time, plus migration from Windows to Linux is quite common (fortunately in that direction…;)), so when I…