Back in late June of 2015, Larry Ellison launched several public cloud services , and one of those who were included was the Public DBaaS , today I had the opportunity to try out this new service and here we will go into how to...
This is going to be a short post as there wasn't much information on this type of failure when searching for it. I was working on an Oracle EM13cR2 installation and when the installation reached 78% it failed on the BI Publisher configuration . I first looked...
I am mostly writing this so I don't forget , it will be a small post. The other day I did a switchover in a RAC environment , which went pretty smooth , but after doing the switchover in the primary I kept getting the...
The other day I was doing an import using impdp in 12.1.0.2 , and got the following error ORA-30926: unable to get a stable set of rows in the source tables. Starting "SYS_PYTHIAN"."SYS_IMPORT_TABLE_03": sys_pythian/******** parfile=table_import.par Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/GRANT/OWNER_GRANT/OBJECT_GRANT Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/COMMENT Processing object type...
Yesterday as I was running here in Lisbon, I found a sign outside the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Rossio Square that read "Parece Impossível" (Seems Impossible) and I thought that I couldn't have found a better sign on the day that marked an anniversary...
This is something that you might have already known, but it's a cool thing when using RMAN that I want to show you. As you may know Oracle Database has a feature called archived redo log failover, this feature allows RMAN to backup successfully the archived redo logs...
The other day I was running an upgrade for a client that is using ACLs ( Access Control Lists) from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2, and if you have been doing upgrades to 12c, you know that when running the catctl.pl -n 4 catupgrd.sql it entails 73 steps. So...
As some of you may know , one of my very first errors back when I was using Oracle RDBMS 9.2 was to drop a table from production instead of development just for not following FIT-ACER , but back then recovering a table was not as...
These past few years have been such a rollercoaster of emotions , of good and not so good things, but they have also been years of hard core learning experiences and I won't go here about them, as some of you already know about them...
This year it was delayed by 1 month and it is going to be a cold time in San Francisco, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be a fun time. To those who will be their first time attending , it can be a...