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Hello all! So, a client asked me to check why his database was not starting with CRS after a reboot. I started ...
Background I recently came across a very unusual situation. During an upgraded review, I noticed the ...
Sounds simple, right? And it really is, although it might not seem obvious. Recently, I ran into an issue when trying ...
We have all set up automatic startup and shutdown of an Oracle Database on Linux at some point. I, myself, have made ...
It’s one of those classic "Oracle knows best" moments, isn't it? You try to take back control of your own schema, and ...
Situation Let's say you need to read trace files from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). How do you do it?
Problem In a new 12c environment (which actually includes 18c and 19c, as per the 12c family), the datapatch failed on ...
Quantifying data movement across the environment After setting up GoldenGate in your environment, you might ask ...
Error Statement I recently found this interesting message error in a CRS alert log from a client environment:
Having questions about automatic startup and shutdown is quite common when dealing with new environments or ...
Managing Oracle on AWS has some twists. Here are five daily DBA activities that have changed on AWS:
Does IPv6 formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus seem new to you well, it's been available since 11gR2. You're familiar with ...
So, after an abnormally quiet weekend, I was being paged: Oracle Management Services (OMS) was down! Well, this ...
I had a very specific situation where I wanted to ignore an error from a specific agent. It turns out that it is easier ...
Previous Highlights Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in total. Make sure you ...
In this post I’d like to present five best practices/tips for setting dispatchers for database shared connections: 1. ...
I was performing a spot health check in a client environment, when I encountered this: [oracle@dbserver1 ~]$ crsctl ...
In a previous post, I discussed that the APEXExport tool may be the best one to use when exporting APEX applications. ...

Background I ran across an interesting case within OEM 12 (Oracle Enterprise Manager) Release 5. A client reported the ...
Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in total. Make sure you also check out: ...
Context Are you relying on guaranteed restore points (GRP) as a fallback plan for your migration or upgrade strategy? ...
Most likely you’ve landed here because you need to migrate APEX applications/workspaces from one database to another. ...

Introduction to Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) I wanted to share a brief summary–a cheat sheet–to highlight the ...
This seems like a simple message to fix, right? The parameter is different between the broker configuration and the ...
Post-mortem analysis tools: hanganalyze Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in ...
When you’re sure all the TNS listener (SID_LIST_LISTENER in this case) services and db_domain are fine, but you still ...
Very recently, when applying the 2021 January CPU in a client environment, the following happened: The failure ...

I received the above message related to an ORA-7445 on my 11.2.0.4 database: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core ...
Today’s post is another dealing with AWS services. Let’s say you need to read trace files from RDS — how would you do ...

From ORAchk/EXAchk/ODAchk, Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) and Hang Manager, to Cluster Health Advisor (CHA), ...