Restore the spfile while using the FRA & not using Recovery Catalog

Today we are going to learn about recovery with rman for loss of spfile. As we know that RMAN can be used either with or without a recovery catalog. A recovery catalog is a schema stored in a database that tracks backups and stores scripts for use in RMAN backup and recovery situations. Generally, a skillful DBA […]

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Using the Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)

The Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) is an Oracle-provided diagnostic tool that captures data about your database environment and packages it into a web page report. When submitting a Service Request to Oracle Support, you will often be asked to run the Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) and upload the results.  This allows the support analyst to review […]

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Methods for viewing SQL Execution Plans

Using Autotrace SQL> set autotrace traceonly explain SQL> select ename from emp where sal > 500; Execution Plan ———————————————————- Plan hash value: 2872589290 ————————————————————————- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes |Cost (%CPU)| Time | ————————————————————————- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 25 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | |* […]

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FAR SYNC in Oracle 12C Database

Oracle introduced a new feature for DataGuard called Far Sync. This configuration is design to support synchronous redo transport between primary and standby database which are far apart. In usual configuration synchronous redo transport between data centre in Europe and US is possible but inefficient from the primary database performance perspective. Every commit has to be written […]

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Importing just 1 view via impdp

Hi, Struggling the right syntax in Unix environment for importing a lost view, here is the proper way: impdp user/password@database directory=dir_dump dumpfile=dump.dmp logfile=imp_MY_VIEW.log INCLUDE=VIEW:\”= \’MY_VIEW\’\” job_name=imp_MY_VIEW

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PDBs Backup (How to identify which PDBs a backup set belong to)

Introduction:- In this article, we are going to have look on PDBs backup.  Normally we have learnt about a different kind of backup available in  Oracle. In cloud computing, we have backups in PDBs. In RMAN we have a script to know about the backup history. Now we can get the information of PDB(backup).  n large scale industries have […]

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