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Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 17: Backup & Recovery

Backup in Cassandra maintain at node level , so any backup that taken in the one node does not contain other nodes data, so you must take backup of each node, cassandra maintains backups as snapshots means an entire sstables at disk level copied to a different folder with snapshot id as like below.

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod […]

Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 13 : Memory Management

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Memory Calculation for Cassandra (kind of sga setting 🙂 will be done during environment setup with following script excerpt. if you want you can change accordingly this script and restart the cassandra.

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geek_cluster/node1/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh

….

half_system_memory_in_mb=`expr $system_memory_in_mb / 2`

quarter_system_memory_in_mb=`expr $half_system_memory_in_mb / 2`

if [ “$half_system_memory_in_mb” -gt “1024” ]

then

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Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 12 : Client Connections & Timeouts

We also set timeouts for client side,

TNSNAMES.ora or sqlnet.ora (Client Side)

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~/.ccm/repository/4.5.2/resources/cassandra/conf $ vi cqlshrc.default

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~/.ccm/repository/4.5.2/resources/cassandra/conf $

Set the client_timeout as like sqlnet.ora timeout setting

[connection]

hostname = 192.168.1.2

port = 9160

client_timeout=40

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Node Communication Settings * Timeouts

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root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/resources/cassandra/conf $

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/resources/cassandra/conf […]

Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 11 : Alert log & Tracing

Alert Log and tracing Parameters in Cassandra.yaml

log4j-server.properties

log4j.appender.R.File=/root/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/logs/system.log

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~ $ ccm node1 nodetool getlogginglevels

Logger Name Log Level

root INFO

org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore WARN

org.apache.thrift.server.TNonblockingServer FATAL

org.apache.solr.handler.component WARN

org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher WARN

org.apache.solr.update WARN

org.apache.solr.core.CassandraSolrConfig WARN

SolrValidationLog INFO

org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers WARN

org.apache.solr.util.plugin.AbstractPluginLoader WARN

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~ $

root@wash-i-16ca26c8-prod ~/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/logs $ ls -ltr

total 528

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Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 10: Commit Logs (Managing Archivelogs & Redlogs)

Archive Logs & Redologs (commit logs) Parameters that need to effect.

commitlog_directory: /root/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/commitlogs

commitlog_directory: /root/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/commitlogs

commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 32

commitlog_sync: periodic

commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000

/.ccm/geek_cluster/node1/resources/cassandra/conf/commitlog_archiving.properties file to keep archive_command

Argument 1 will give you the path to the files you’d want to copy, while

Cassandra for Oracle DBA’s Part 9 : Creating Users & Granting Privileges

Create User in cassandra involve to change the parameter in cassandra.yaml and authentication mode.

# Authentication backend, implementing IAuthenticator; used to identify users

# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthenticator,

# PasswordAuthenticator}.

# DSE also provides a Kerberos authenticator for external authentication.

#

# – AllowAllAuthenticator performs no checks – set it […]

Cassandra for Oracle DBA Part 8: Data Dictionary Overview

cqlsh> select * from system.sstable_activity;

keyspace_name | columnfamily_name | generation | rate_120m | rate_15m

—————+——————-+————+———–+———-

PortfolioDemo | StockHist | 2 | 0 | 0

PortfolioDemo | Portfolios | 5 | 0 | 0

PortfolioDemo | Stocks | 5 | 0 | 0

PortfolioDemo | StockHist | 3 | 0 | […]

12c Upgrade Gotchas

The following are various gotchas during upgrade or post upgrade to 12c collect from various sources and also few of them in my environment.

1. Change of resource_limit parameter to true by default

Impact: Resource Manager will be invoked automatically and push the resource limits to the sessions and users may receive cpu/io restriction […]

Database Migration & Upgrade 11g to 12c, Non ASM to ASM, Non RAC to RAC

Consider a Typical Database Migration which contains all of this below (and if down time is not a problem)

1. Into a new Database Host (NEW SERVER)

2. Convert to Non-ASM to ASM

3. Convert to Single Instance to RAC,

4. Upgrade to Database to 12c

Environment Details

Source Target DB Version: […]

Performance Troubleshooting Series : Identifying or Estimating How much PGA needed by Session/Query

Have got a question from one of fellow DBA that how much PGA the session will use or needed.

Well to answer this, first we need to know what PGA looks like and what it used for?

The follow shows the components of a PGA, the little space used for Stack, Env Variables and Private […]