José Valerio Oracle Technology

11g Supported Upgrade Paths

08.05.2009 · Posted in 11g R1, RDBMS, Tip

11g Supports upgrades from 9i Releases 1 and 2 and Oracle Database Release 1 and 2. From Any version <= 9.0.1.4 You must upgrade to Oracle 10.2 using a supported upgrade path(s).  It is not supported to upgrade to Oracle 11g from a direct migration unless you use import/export or SQL*Plus method. From:  Any version ...

Tracing with trcsess

07.24.2009 · Posted in 10g R1, 10g R2, Performance, RDBMS

Worried about how to trace shared connections?, relax, Oracle provides the trcsess command-line utility that consolidates tracing information based on specific criteria, trcsess is useful for consolidating the tracing of a particular session for performance or debugging purposes. The syntax for the trcsess utility is: trcsess [output=output_file_name] [session=session_Id] [clientid=client_Id] [service=service_name] [action=action_name] [module=module_name] [trace_files] where: output ...

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Oracle Internals – How to remaster an object in RAC

07.17.2009 · Posted in 10g R2, Internals, RAC

To understand re-mastering please read in my blog the previous post explaining differences between versions. 1. Log in as SYSDBA and find the segment object number SELECT data_object_id FROM dba_objects WHERE owner = ‘JVALERIO’AND object_name = ‘TESTDRM1′; data_object_id ————— 23098 data_object_id: Object number of the segment which contains the object. If you want to remaster at ...

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Oracle Internals – RAC Dynamic Re-mastering

07.17.2009 · Posted in 10g R1, 10g R2, Internals, RAC

Remastering is the ability to move the ownership of a resource between instances of Real Application Clusters. Dynamic resource remastering is used to implement resource affinity for increased performance. Resource affinity optimizes the system in situations where update transactions are being executed on one instance. When activity shifts to another instance the resource affinity will ...

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RAC wait events: gc cr request gc current block busy and gc buffer busy

07.08.2009 · Posted in Performance, RAC

Updates Added on Jun 30, 2010: Global Cache Waits  http://jose-valerio.com.ar/blog/?p=790 Added on March 23, 2010: If you have doubts about the “Oracle Query Processing” please take a look to my post http://jose-valerio.com.ar/blog/?p=502 . In this post you will find information about sysstat view to understand what is going on in your database on the fly, ...

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Reducing Consistent Reads Response times in RAC

07.08.2009 · Posted in Performance, RAC

How to ? 1. If it is possible, avoid reading uncommitted blocks on the remotes nodes. 2. Increase the number of LMS processes(depends of Oracle version) 3. Minimizing the transactions sizes on the remote node. …more ? ok, tuning the hardware can help you. 4. Try to reduce the interconnect latency 5. Change your disks, ...

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RAC cold Backup using RMAN

07.03.2009 · Posted in General, RDBMS, Scripts

(From my old blog, very popular !) A very trivial procedure to do this: # José Valerio – April, 2007 # Before: Stop cluster database # 1. Mount your cluster DB in the node where you # will perform the backup. # 2. Modify backup and format destinations (show channel) # 3. Connect RMAN (nocatalog ...

Oracle Internals – RAC Enqueues

06.26.2009 · Posted in Internals, RAC, RDBMS

The Enqueues are locks that serialize access to database resources. In general this indicates that the session is waiting for a lock that is held by another session. –******************************************************* – – H O L D E R S & W A I T E R S — http://jose-valerio.com.ar – – ******************************************************* SELECT inst_id, DECODE(request,0,’Holder: ‘,’Waiter: ...

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Argentina OpenSolaris Users Group (AOSUG)

06.24.2009 · Posted in Unix

Thanks Hernan for invite me !.  I will enjoy getting envolved in the group.  In my first  research I’ll try to get some of light to the Open HA Cluster and share all learned with the group. As you probably know my final insterest is to install a cheap Oracle RAC cluster, secure and stable, unfortunately RAC is not free Regards, ...

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