Script that duplicates a database using a physical standby RAC as source

 It’s possibile to duplicate a database for testing purposes (it’s an example) using a standby database as source. This allows you to off-load the production environment.

This is a simple script that makes use of ASM and classic duplicate, although I guess it’s possible to use the standby DB for a duplicate from active database.
You can launch it everyday to align your test env at a point in time.

Mass datafile resizing

Recently I needed to extend many datafiles on a database with more than 500 tablespaces because a lot of tablespaces were reaching the critical threshold.
Autoextend was not an option due to a bug I encountered on 10gR2 RAC on ASM and AIX.

The solution was the following script: it generates statements to autoextend datafiles with usage over a defined threshold (the “80” in the where clause) to low down the percentage below another defined threshold (the “75” in the select clause).

Prior to extend it’s possible to show how much space is required to do this mass resizing: