VMware is a factor Times and syntaxes change, so it’s time to refresh an old blog post a bit. Especially VMware has established its place in the Oracle world, and it can be tricky to map disk IDs directly into the VM. Many sources recommend to use the SCSI addresses, but I learned to never […]
Year: 2019
ORATOP in Oracle 19c
In 19c , the useful utility “oratop” is shipped with the Oracle Home installation. It was linked to the recent libaries, and its command line syntax changed. Error This leads to errors when calling one of the old “download” binaries like oratop12c-64.bin in a 19c environment: /home/oracle/bin/oratop12c-64.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libclntshcore.so.12.1: cannot open […]
Oracle Database 18c changed MRP checkpointing from log boundary to time-based
The gap The story started with an always-unpleasant alert log message: The reason Looking into v$archived_log: The log sequences 2306-2405 ARE applied on standby. And thus deleted by policy from the Fast Recovery Area. Okay, this explains the effect, but not the root cause. So we had to open a SR with Oracle Support. The […]
DOAG Regionalgruppe Nürnberg Anfahrt / Map
DOAG Regio und Meetup Die DOAG Regionalgruppe und Meetup Nürnberg hat ein großes Thema: Die Technologien von und rund um Oracle, und ist ganz leicht zu finden. Sie ist immer am gleichen Ort, und das Treffen findet immer am dritten Donnerstag eines jeden Monats statt (außer August und November). Die konkreten Termine und Themen werden […]
Back again!
The blog was a bit neglected over the last time. But now, with a new face and a modern backend, I’m determined to use it again. 🙂 Thanks very much Valentin and Hendrik, who did an amazing job with renewing the infrastructure and the new theme! Stay tuned! Martin […]