First I want to start disclosing that I have an idea on how this happened, but haven't been able to recreate this issue, also that I was lucky enough that the tablespace that had the issue was a DUMMY tablespace so it didn't cause an...
So the other day I was doing an install of the 11.2.0.3 Clusterware binaries and came around that with the cluvfy tool in 11.2.0.3 comes now with a health check option for the Database. For this option to work you have to install or setup...
For whoever that has worked with the 11gR2 version of RAC , has ran into the startup sequence diagram, this diagram is just disturbing to see, I don't know about you, but for me is just unhelpful and not KISS.Then there is the second diagram...
Due to several dinners and a few concerts, I didn't post on day three , but here is more data regarding the new version of Oracle's Database 12c .Regarding backup and recovery in this new version, you will see a great new feature in which you...
So the second day of Oracle Open World has come and gone, and the news about the 12c Version of Oracle's signature Database keep coming in, in a General session in which Oracle Tech Guru Tom Kyte did a 15 minute feature presentation, a few...
So today was my first time attending Oracle Open World (OOW) , and I can't say anything but good things about the whole experience , I don't know if the upcoming sessions how will they be, but the User Groups Sessions rocked.A little bit of...
Last weekend I was involved in a DRP/BCP (Disaster Recovery Plan/Business Continuity Plan) for a client, which is basically planning out your worst case scenario , e.g. your Data site being hit by a tornado and loosing everything there, and what actions would you take...
When you manage a RAC database, there is a tool called crsctl , this tool is an interface to manage all the resources belonging to the clusterware. At the same time this tool can help you to manage and have available your user applications when...
The other day I was asked How can I verify that the backup I took was a good backup. For this RMAN has several commands to verify the integrity of these.All the commands used below do not perform an actual recovery , it only reads...
So the other day I was running an incremental backup in a Database that had been recently cloned, when I was running the backup, the following error showed up:DBGRPC: EXITED krmqgns with status 1DBGRPC: ...