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30 chars just not enough…

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Sat, 2013-08-31 14:34

Sometimes even Oracle itself just can’t cope with the 30 character limit

This from a M000 trace file :-)

*** 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** SESSION ID:(1020.7527) 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** CLIENT ID:() 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$BACKGROUND) 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** MODULE NAME:(MMON_SLAVE) 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** ACTION NAME:(Remote-Flush Slave Action) 2013-08-29 15:27:46.316
*** KEWROCISTMTEXEC – encountered error: (ORA-12899: value too large for column "SYS"."WRH$_SEG_STAT_OBJ"."OBJECT_NAME" (actual: 31, maximum: 30)
*** KEWRAFM1: Error=13509 encountered by kewrfteh

Three Methods, Supported and NOT Supported to Remove Targets in EM12c

Submitted by dbakevlar on Sat, 2013-08-31 00:47

I’ve had a couple peers ask me about this recently-   They’ve attempted to discover targets on a host and experienced failures.  This commonly occurs for the following reasons:

1.  Incorrect information regarding the target exists at the target host level.

2.  The OMS has an unresolved issue, status in pending state, etc.

Give them the Friggin’ IPad

Submitted by dbakevlar on Fri, 2013-08-30 23:11
Many of you know that I’m the mother of three, very bright, “equally ADHD as their mother” children.  As I’ve been tasked with a number of interesting challenges with both RMOUG’s and ODTUG’s WIT, (Women in Technology) events, I’ve started to investigate how, no matter what we do for women today, unless we start focusing on the women of tomorrow, we are lost.
I spent some time the last couple weeks investigating the offerings by my local sch

The Silicon Ceiling

Submitted by dbakevlar on Fri, 2013-08-30 23:04
A male peer of mine approached me just after Collaborate and discussed this incredible woman in the Oracle community that he was trying to promote and inspire.  I had met her at a couple sessions and agreed-  I was impressed with her knowledge, energy and intelligence as well and he asked if I would assist in promoting her-  I was thrilled and agreed.  I promptly contacted her via Linked in and I sent her an invite.  She just accepted my Linked in request this month and it real

Enqueue – PK, FK or Bitmap Index problem?

Submitted by khailey on Fri, 2013-08-30 16:52

MP900302987If one is seeing waits for enq: TX – row lock contention  then there could be a lot of reasons. One distinguishing factor is the lock mode. If the lock mode is exclusive (mode 6) then it’s most likely a classic row lock where two sessions are trying to modify the same row. On the other hand if the lock mode is share (mode 4)  it’s typically going to be

Oracle IO on linux: log writer IO and wait events

Submitted by fritshoogland on Fri, 2013-08-30 10:08

This post is about log writer (lgwr) IO.
It’s good to point out the environment on which I do my testing:
Linux X64 OL6u3, Oracle 11.2.0.3 (no BP), Clusterware 11.2.0.3, ASM, all database files in ASM.

In order to look at what the logwriter is doing, a 10046 trace of the lgwr at level 8 gives an overview.
A way of doing so is using oradebug. Be very careful about using oradebug on production environments, it can/may cause the instance to crash.

This is how I did it:

SYS@v11203 AS SYSDBA> oradebug setospid 2491
Oracle pid: 11, Unix process pid: 2491, image: oracle@ol63-oracle.local (LGWR)
SYS@v11203 AS SYSDBA> oradebug unlimit
Statement processed.
SYS@v11203 AS SYSDBA> oradebug event 10046 trace name context forever, level 8
Statement processed.

Of course 2491 is the Linux process id of the log writer, as is visible with “image”.

Oracle I/O latency monitoring

Submitted by khailey on Fri, 2013-08-30 00:11

stopwatchOne thing that I have found sorely missing in the performance pages of Enterprise Manager is latency values for various types of I/O. The performance page or top activity may show high I/O waits but it won’t indicated if the latency of I/O is unusually high or not. Thus I put together a shell script that shows latency for the main I/O waits

Support for Pluggable Databases in Enterprise Manager

Submitted by martin.bach on Thu, 2013-08-29 10:53

Currently there is an interesting thread on the oracle-l mailing list about OEM 12c support for database 12c Release. Unlike previous OEM generations this time OEM was not lagging behind. I am using OEM 12.1.0.2.0 with the database plugin 12.1.0.3.0 and yes, I can see PDBs!

pdbs-001

The above snapshot is from the database targets overview page. As you can see there is a Container Database (CDB1) and it has exactly 1 PDB. When you click on the CDB you get to the main page:

CURSOR_SHARING : a picture is worth a 1000 words

Submitted by khailey on Wed, 2013-08-28 19:16

Anyone who has been around Oracle performance over the years knows the grief that hard parsing SQL queries can cause on highly concurrent applications. The number one reason for hard parsing has been applications that don’t use bind variables. Without bind variables queries that would otherwise be shared get recompiled because their text is different and Oracle treats them as different queries. Oracle addressed this issue with a parameter called cursor_sharing. The parameter cursor_sharing has three values

  1. exact – the default
  2. similar – replace literals with bind variables, if a histogram keep literal in place
  3. force – replace literals with bind variables and use existing plan if it exists

Here is what the load looks like going from the default, exact, to the value force on a load of the same query but a query that doesn’t use bind variables:

Oracle Security Training, 12c, PFCLScan, Magazines, UKOUG, Oracle Security Books and Much More

Submitted by pete on Wed, 2013-08-28 16:05

It has been a few weeks since my last blog post but don't worry I am still interested to blog about Oracle 12c database security and indeed have nearly 700 pages of notes in MS Word related to 12c security....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 28/08/13 At 05:04 PM