Get the Most out of Oracle Data Guard – The material

Here we go: as usual, the feedback that I usually get after my talks (specifically, after POUG High Five conference), is if I will share my demo scripts and material.

Sadly, the demos I am doing for my presentation “Get the most out of Oracle Data Guard” are quite tied to an environment built for the purpose of the demos. So, do not expect to get scripts easy to use as is, but rather to get some ideas beyond the demo themselves.

I hope they will help to get the whole picture.

Of course, if you need to implement a cloning strategy based on Data Guard or any other solution that I describe in this post, please feel free to contact me, I will be glad to help you implement it in your environment.

Slides

Demo 1

Video:

Scripts:

 

Demo 2

Video:


Scripts:

 

Demo 3

Video:

Scripts:

Preparation:

snap_acfs.pl

 

snap_databasae.pl

clone_from_snap.pl

Cheers

Ludovico

12.1.0.2 Bundle Patch 170718 breaks Data Guard and Duplicate from active database

Recently my customer patched its 12.1.0.2 databases with the Bundle Patch 170718 on the new servers (half of the customer’s environment). The old servers are still on 161018 Bundle Patch.

We realized that we could not move anymore the databases from the old servers to the new ones because the duplicate from active database was failing with this error:

The last lines shows the same error that Franck blogged about some months ago.

Oracle 12.2 had introduced incompatibility with previous releases in remote file transfer via SQL*Net. At least this is what it seems. According to Oracle, this is due to a bugfix present in Oracle 12.2

Now, the bundle patch that we installed on BP 170718 contains the same bugfix (Patch for bug 18633374).

So, the incompatibility happens now between databases of the same “Major Release” (12.1.0.2).

There are two possible workarounds:

  1. Apply the same patch level on both sides (BP170718 in my case)
  2. Apply just the patch 18633374 on top of your current PSU/DBBP (a merge might be necessary).

We used the second approach and now we can setup Data Guard again to move our databases without downtime:

HTH

Ludovico

 

 

Trivadis sessions at Oracle Open World 2017

This year Trivadis will be again at Oracle Open World (and Oak Table World!) in San Francisco, with a few sessions (including mine!)

If you are going to Oracle Open World and you want to say hello to the Trivadis speakers, make sure you attend them!

Get the Most Out of Oracle Data Guard
Ludovico Caldara – ACE Director, Senior Consultant – Trivadis
When: Sunday, Oct 01, 12:45 PM
Where: Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) – Nob Hill A/B

EOUC Database ACES Share Their Favorite Database Things
Christian Antognini – ACE Director, OAK Table Member, Senior Principal Consultant, Partner – Trivadis
When: Sunday, Oct 01, 10:45 AM
Where: Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) – Golden Gate C1/C2

Application Containers: Multitenancy for Database Applications
Markus Flechtner – Principal Consultant – Trivadis
When: Sunday, Oct 01, 2:45 PM
Where: Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) – Nob Hill A/B

TBA
Christian Antognini – ACE Director, OAK Table Member, Senior Principal Consultant, Partner – Trivadis
When: Monday Oct 02, 1:00 PM
Where: Oak Table World, Children Creativity Museum

Apache Kafka: Scalable Message Processing and More
Guido Schmutz – ACE Director, Senior Principal Consultant, Partner – Trivadis
When: Monday Oct 02, 4:30 PM
Where: Moscone West – Room 2004

You can find trivadis’s sessions in the session catalog here.

See you there!