Yay, it’s there. SQL Developer 4 is usable. It brings a new session for a new window (“unshared worksheet” in Oracle terms) – I was told lately SQL Developer 3 already had this. Did you know? Now we are kind of stable in 4: The 4.0.2 build 1521 (hehe) works good, so it’s time to […]
Year: 2014
Oracle 11.2 PSU2 Grid Infrastructure stack start … failed to complete at crsconfig_lib.pm line 11814
Oh, sometimes it’s just (own or close-people’s) PEBKAC that costs you time and gray hair… Patching 11.2.0.4.x to PSU2 on Linux was such an issue. Problem “opatch auto” with all comfort worked well, applied the patch, but re-starting the clusterware failed with: Starting CRS… Installing Trace File Analyzer CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been […]
Oracle on Linux: How to hide your password when using a wrapper script
Sometimes, a DBA has to write an externally called wrapper script for various Oracle-supplied commands accepting password inputs. A prominent and simple example is SQL*plus (sqlplus). The Problem The process list shows all parameters of a command that’s currently executed. wrapper1.sh Accepts all connection infos on the command line: #!/bin/bash cmdstring=”sqlplus ${1}/${2}@${3}” echo “Executed command: […]
Slides for COLLABORATE 2014 IOUG forum talk #C14LV
Hi folks, here’s my slides for “YOUR machine and MY databases – a performing relationship?!” at Collaborate 2014 Las Vegas. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! 2014_141_Klier_odp_v1 2014_141_Klier_v1_doc Some pictures to come soon! You may want to follow the #C14LV hashtag to see what’s going on. 🙂 […]
SQL Server Analysis Look At’s
End of March, I had a chance to dig a bit deeper into MS SQL Server analysis. The german chapter of PASS (http://www.sqlpass.org) organized one of their “Essentials”, a condensed training day with a specific topic. This one was named “SQL Server Analysis” and was held by Andreas Wolter (MCSM) in Nuremberg. Here comes my […]
DOAG WĂĽrzburg: “Resolving child cursor issues resulting in mutex waits”
I feel honored that DOAG asked me once more for being a speaker at an event – this time it’s DOAG Regionalgruppe WĂĽrzburg. I will give my (updated) C12LV and Oracle Open World 2012 talk “Resolving child cursor issues resulting in mutex waits” there, supported by my new business Performing Databases GmbH. My abstract: In […]
Oracle Dataguard: ORA-00600 [krsu_upi_atc.7] – crash when primary ships the first time
After setting up a new Oracle Dataguard system (primary plus one standby DB), everything looked promising. But after activating the log shipping from primary, and after archiving a redo log for the first time, the primary instance crashed with ORA-00600 [krsu_upi_atc.7]. Without the standby system available (DB idle or listener off), no error occurred. ****************************************************************** […]
DOAG Database Conference DĂĽsseldorf: “YOUR machine and MY database” was accepted
DOAG just informed me that my talk, “YOUR machine and MY database – a performing relationship!?” was accpeted for DOAG Database Conference DĂĽsseldorf. Last year, the first Database Conference at DĂĽsseldorf was a great success, I enjoyed it very much. I’m glad to be part of the speaker’s corps this year. Hope to see you […]
Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme wins Oracle Excellence Award Germany 2013 category “ISV”
I’m proud to announce that my employer, Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme, Teunz (Germany), won the Oracle Excellence Award Germany 2013 in the category of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). […]
Oracle Clusterware root.sh issue: USM driver install actions failed (oracleoks.ko)
As I already said in my last post about “Can’t install ohasd service“, setting up Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.4 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) SP2 should work flawlessly, but sometimes it does not. 🙂 This time, it was about the USM drivers. USM driver install actions failed /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/bin/perl -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/lib -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install/rootcrs.pl execution failed USM drivers […]