Database Cloning without RMAN on windows

CREATE INITSRDB.ORA PFILE IN D:\DATABASE\APP FOLDER *.db_name=’srdb2′ *.control_files=’D:\DATABASE\APP\SHRIRAM\REDOLOGS\srdb2\CONTROLFILE\O1_srdb2.CTL’ 2. CREATE DESTINATION FOLDER DATAFILES FOLDER ONLINE REDOLOGS FOLDER CONTROLFILE FOLDER 3. CREATE SERVICE USING ORADIM ORADIM -NEW -SID SRDB2 NOTE: CHECK WHETHER THE SERVICE IS RUNNING OR NOT. 4. COPY ALL THE DATAFILES, REDOLOGS TO DESTINATION FOLDER AS IT IS THE CASE OF DATABASE CLONING WITHOUT […]

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Recover a datafile from copy

Let’s recover if some datafile is unavailable. Let’s delete users01.dbf datafile which is in USERS tablespace. [oracle@node214 DB11G]$ pwd /u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB11G [oracle@node214 DB11G]$ [oracle@node214 DB11G]$ mv users01.dbf users01.dbf.bak #as backup file. [oracle@node214 DB11G]$ Let’s try to create a table name A in tablespace Users. SQL> create table a(id number) tablespace USERS * ERROR at line 1: […]

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Recover controlfile

Controlfiles saved at least in 2 locations. If one of them is corrupted then you can copy from other one after shutdown database. In this case I will show you how to recover from autobackup via RMAN. So you need CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; in RMAN and you should have full backup database. It can […]

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Clone Database using RMAN on Windows 10

Cloning Database with RMAN : A cloning database is useful for a variety of purposes, most of which involve testing. You can perform the following tasks to clone database: Prerequisites: You should have 2 servers , both server should have Oracle Software installed on them. Oracle Version : 11.2.0.4.0 OS : Windows 10 Database Name […]

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How to use Catalog start with command

Recovery Manager(RMAN) is an Oracle Database client that performs backup  and recovery tasks on your databases and automates administration of your backup strategies. It greatly simplifies backing up,restoring and recovering database files. If you have backup files in non-FRA location  , you can catalog your backup using catalog start with command of RMAN. Note : […]

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Resynchronize a duplicated remote database using RMAN backups

This post is about re-synchronized a duplicated database: the source database is PROD@vsi08 server and the target database will have the same SID, but located @vsi10 server. All the steps to set up a duplicated database are already explained in this previous post. Let’s duplicate for the first time our target database PROD located on […]

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Categories of Failures in Oracle Database

Today we are going to have look on Categories of Failures in Oracle Database.  This information helps to DBA solve the issue as soon as possible.   Statement Failure Statement failure transpires when there is a logical failure in the handling of a statement in an Oracle program. If a statement failure occurs, then the Oracle software or operating […]

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Perform a time-based incomplete recovery

Every incomplete recovery is followed by a resetlogs command before opening the database: each time you use a resetlogs command, a new incarnation of the database is created. While performing incomplete recovery it should be known the target point at which the recovery process needs to terminate: there are several ways to establish and set […]

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Recover duplicate a production database on a different server

In the following scenario, We are going to learn about those steps which use to recover duplicate a production database on a different server maintaining the same SID and directory structures with ‘duplicate‘ RMAN command I simply want to have a copy of my production database to a different server preserving the same database directory structures and […]

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