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11gr2 : Parallel Hint

Its more than 3 years 11g has released, still looking or finding something new every day or other.

Today its the Parallel Hint that I came across from the documentation.

Many has already blogged about this, still I am writing the same for my readers and

Until 10g, the parallel hint behaviour is like […]

An oldie: srvconfig 9i rac days, still useful in 11gr2

To Export cluster registry

    $srvconfig -exp file_name

To Import Cluster registry

    $srvconfig -imp file_name

To Upgrade the database cluster registry and database configuration

    $srvconfig -upgrade -dbname database_name -orahome oracle_homename

To Downgrade the database cluster registry and database configuration (This is rarely used in case of any […]

12c Database: New Features List 2

Few more collection of new features with in 12c database in continuation to my earlier post in this category

RMAN Enhancements:-

Recover or copy files from Standby databases Table level restoration i.e object level Incremental recovery more faster, many of the tasks removed

RAC Enhancements:-

TAF is extended to Transactions failover (insert/update/delete)

Dataguard Enhancements:-

Global […]

Do you know about asmdf?

If someone ask you that how to know about asm diskgroups without logging to asm, then answer this. ASM datafile system (ACFS?)

rac2$ asmdf Filesystem        SizeKB     UsedKB           AvailKB              Use%     Mounted on +DATA01        15687104    10959872     4727232           60.56%      DATA01

This works really, but no documentation at all. If some one knows about this let me know.

-Thanks

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RAC: Recover lost voting and OCR Disks from backup

We have a lost voting disks issue yesterday, this occurs due to incorrect aliases or the device mapper persistent names have been changed after storage upgradation/migration.

CRS was not up and showing the error below Obviously the CSSD , cssd.log

No voting disks founds

So, we have lost the voting and OCR disks. […]

Quick Question: What happens when root.sh run in rac installation?

Hello,

I am bumped on the following to answer in a exact sequential way, hence want to note it here.

While in a rac installation, when you run root.sh , what are the sequence of actions that take place?

Node 1 Initial Setup Setup OLR for storing Oracle local registry data Setup GPnP wallet and […]

Just watch out for processess parameter in ASM instance

If you have an asm instances with multiple databases using it, you may just need to watch out for processess parameter, yes you heard it right

See below:- ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1: ‘+ASMDISK1/testdb/redo01.log’ ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +ASMDISK1/testdb/redo01.log ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) […]

Installer has detected that the diskgroup name provided already exists on the system.

Hello,

After a failed crs installation, we have removed everything by using deconfigure and deinstall utility and freshly started the grid infrastruction installation, and we got this error

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 2395 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 32767 MB Passed […]

RAC: Cluster Interconnect performance troubleshooting – Quick reference

A quick troubleshooting reference for cluster interconnect performance in Oracle RAC to Identify network and contention issues.

a) Check for "gc cr lost blocks" wait event in Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)/sysstats.

    If found, check for these errors on the NIC:

        Dropped packets/fragments         Buffer overflows         Packet reassembly failures or […]