It has been 4 years and almost 3 months that on September 19th (19s as it is commonly known due to the day 19th and S of September) of 2017 at 1:15 PM CT México City got hit by one of the deathliest earthquake. México City is still ...
Lately I have been testing the GC project “El Carro” and it came to light that I hadn’t done a 101 of Kubernetes or also known as K8s and following Christine’s post on learning something new, I think this can help out newcomers. I will be ...
This will be a small post on how to do an Out of Place Patching for your database in an ExaCC environment. The documentations shows how to do it via the console, but in this example it will be a 19.11 patch via dbaascli that will be applied ...
This week we had an issue when we were patching and EXACC Grid Infrastructure from 19.10 to 19.11 and the patching died when it was running the postpatch on node 1 and left the patch in a weird “ROLLING PATCH” mode as it hadn’t finished the 19.11 patching ...
This blog post is part rant and part on how I was able to fix an issue in the second instance that was failing with ORA-01102: cannot mount database in EXCLUSIVE mode when trying to start it up.
Yesterday a teamate mentioned to me that when he was trying to ...
Seems that lately I have been getting all of the ORA-00600 errors possible when duplicating databases, and this is just another one in the list. This will be a very short blog post on how I worked around ORA-00600 when duplicating a PDB and TDE is enabled ...
This week I was involved in an issue with a QA pluggable database refresh that is critical to business, where after the PDB clone to the QA container caused an ORA-00600 error and then the container crashed and it was not possible to start it, failing with ...
I will start this post that the script I am talking about might already be somewhere out there and even in a better version, but myself I couldn’t find it and I needed something that I could quickly put in cron.
The script I wrote is called oci_ocpu_scale.sh ...
This will be a small blog post to help you patch your EM 13c environment to the latest release unit, which is 13.4.0.10. Which I highly recommend, as it fixes a bug (32288282) if you are planning to upgrade from EM 13.4 to 13.5.
The first thing is to ...
For some, this past year has been full of doubts, fears, loneliness, and even loss. I count myself as part of these “some”. But like anything in life, it has also been filled with life, happiness, and some of the greatest experiences I have had in my 42-year ...
Staying with the GCP 101 series, I will now explain how you setup an NFS mount from a GCP filestore for RMAN backups.
I want to keep on mentioning that first you should check with Oracle and your licensing rep on what is supported and licensed before doing any ...
Continuing on the GCP 101 series, I will explain how you use GCP Disk Snapshots to clone a DB in a GCP VM..
I again want to mention that first you should check with Oracle and your licensing rep on what is supported and licensed before doing any of ...
I want to start with the news that on Monday Mar 1st, I presented my resignation letter at Pythian, and after reading an article by Dave Rensin on his lessons learned at Google, I wanted to write my version of what I have learned at Pythian.
While I ...
This past weekend I was doing a production grid infrastructure(GI) Out Of Place Patching (OOP) from 19.6 to 19.8 for a client and while doing this exercise, I hit several bugs along the way (Bugs 20785766 and 27554103).
This blog post is how I solved them and hope it ...
The other day I was doing a database cloning in 11.2.0.4, from an active duplicate and got the following error ORA-19909: datafile 1 belongs to an orphan incarnation and ORA-01110: data file 1.
This is a blog post on how I solved these errors. It is worth mentioning that ...