Side effect of ExaWatcher workaround for LSOF check
While analysing the problem with ExaWatcher not being able to start, I found quite nasty side effect of a workaround implemented in recent versions of this useful tool. In fact, you will hit it only on Exadata X7 where you had previously implemented another workaround…
Small fix for SQLcl Java problem with Oracle 12.1
Let’s say you want to quickly use some cool features of SQLcl inside the script running on the database server, but only Oracle below version 12.2 is available there (which is the first one being shipped with SQLcl). This means that you have to download…
ExaCC: what to do if dbaas_diag_tool.pl fails
When you open Service Request related to problems on your Exadata Cloud at Customer (or other Oracle Cloud environments), very often you’ll be asked to upload diagnostic data, which can be easily gathered by running /var/opt/oracle/misc/dbaas_diag_tool.pl. If it works… In my case it failed, with…
Oracle Privilege Analysis in action
As Oracle has quite recently announced that Privilege Analysis is now included with the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition licence, I played a little bit with this cool feature to solve infamous ORA-01031: Insufficient privileges error. You can read results of my investigation in the article…
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,…
OUD 12c – SSLHandshakeException with “no cipher suites in common”
Recently I’ve update the java installation of my Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) 12.2.1.0.3 to the latest release. Java 1.8.0 update 202 to be exact (p28916775_180202_Linux-x86-64.zip). Actually a piece of cake, I’ve done this a few times in the past. My Enterprise User Security (EUS) test…
Troubleshooting Oracle session disconnection slowness
I have been recently asked to investigate very interesting issue. In short: AIX 7.1 with Oracle 12.1.0.2. Connect with SQL*Plus from hostX to databaseA running on hostZ, then disconnect – was hanging for around 75 seconds. Connect with SQL*Plus from hostY to databaseA running on…
Redo Transport from Oracle 11.2 to 12.2 and SYS password case-sensitivity problems
Case-sensitive passwords were introduced in Oracle Database 11g, causing some misunderstanding and introducing quite a lot of annoying problems for DBAs, even though it was really required to bring level of Oracle’s security to 21st century standards ;). Since then, even more changes were introduced,…
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…
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