What is Upgration? It is the process of replacing your existing software with an advance version of the identical product.Upgrading your applications usually do not require special tools. Your existing reports should look and behave the same in both products. For Example: Replacing Oracle 9i release to Oracle 10g release, SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 etc. Why […]
Articles Tagged: ORACLE 12C
Monitoring RMAN Backup with QBR tools
The Quest Backup Reporter is a windows client application. It can connect too many databases at a time and reports directly from oracle data dictionary views and RMAN catalog. It does not make any modification to either database as well as RMAN configuration. It is just a read only reporting tools. Quest Backup Reporter tools […]
Configure Data Redaction on Oracle
In previous article we provide the brief introduction about Data Redaction on Oracle. Now in this post, we are going to configure different type of Data Redaction in Oracle 12c. Full Data Redaction Partial Data Redaction Random Data Redaction Data Redaction with REGEXP For the demonstration on this I have a table that holds credit […]
Oracle Data Redaction
Oracle Data Redaction enables you to mask (redact) data that is returned from queries issued by applications. You can redact column data by using one of the following methods: Full redaction. You redact all of the contents of the column data. The redacted value returned to the querying application user depends on the data type of […]
Upgrading the Grid Infrastructure from 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2 on the command line
Currently I have two node Grid Infrastructure on 11.2.0.4. The node names are node1 and node2: [grid@node1 ~]$ crsctl query crs activeversion Oracle Clusterware active version on the cluster is [11.2.0.4.0] [grid@node1 ~]$ crsctl query crs softwareversion Oracle Clusterware version on node [node1] is [11.2.0.4.0] [grid@node1 ~]$ crsctl query crs softwareversion node2 Oracle Clusterware version […]
HugePages for Oracle
If you run a Oracle Database on a Linux Server with more than 16 GB physical memory and your System Global Area (SGA) is greater than 8 GB, you should configure HugePages. For large SGA sizes, HugePages can give substantial benefits in virtual memory management. Without HugePages, the memory of the SGA is divided into […]
Adding a Database home to a 12c RAC Cluster
In previous article we added the grid home in third home (i.e rac3): Click Here Now we are going to extend the database home in 3rd home. From an existing node i.e rac1 – as the database software owner – run the following command to extend the Oracle database software to the new node “rac3” […]
Adding a Grid node to a 12c RAC Cluster
The generic steps to follow when adding the new node to the cluster are: Install Operating System Install required software Add/modify users and groups required for the installation Configure network Configure kernel parameters Configure services required such as NTP Configure storage (multipathing, zoning, storage discovery, ASMLib?) We assume that our OS,storage and network is already […]
Patching Oracle GoldenGate 12c
For the latest patchset you’ll need access to MOS. At the time of writing the latest patchset is 12.1.2.1.12 and can be downloaded from here: Oracle GoldenGate 12.1.2.1.12 Patch Set Availability (Doc ID 1645495.1). we need to make sure that no processes are running out of the home that will be patched: [oracle@host01 ~]$ /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/gg_12121/ggsci […]
Oracle GoldenGate 12c: Silent Install
As we know installation of Oracle Goldengate is very easy with GUI mode. In this article we will look at Oracle GoldenGate 12c silent install. Preparing the Response File we can create our response file and save it with ggs.rsp oracle.install.responseFileVersion=/oracle/install/rspfmt_ogginstall_response_schema_v12_1_2 INSTALL_OPTION=ORA12c SOFTWARE_LOCATION=/u01/app/oracle/ggs START_MANAGER=true MANAGER_PORT=7809 DATABASE_LOCATION=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1 INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall Installing GoldenGate After creating the response the […]