Hi, during some tests, I realized that autoupgrade tool (the magic tool for upgrade and patching) doesn’t upgrade timezone version of database. here is the environment: Oracle Linux 8.6 ORACLE_HOME 1 :/u01/app/oracle/product/dbhome_1/dbhome_19_3 Database orcl created in 19.3 with default time zone version (V32) ORACLE_HOME 2 :/u01/app/oracle/product/dbhome_1/dbhome_19_16 Time zone version is upgraded to V39. this is […]
Mustafa
Basically, SQL is the third language that I can speak. I work as a consultant and tuning is my favorite area.
Unique Columns For V$Sql
Hi, Until yesterday I was saying SQL_ID and CHILD_NUMBER is enough to get a sql child cursor from V$SQL and today I know I was wrong. Probably many times you needed the sql statement that a session is running. To do that you query V$session and find the session information and then use SQL_ID column […]
Should Run datapatch After DBCA
Yesterday, I was testing some stuff in database and I needed to create new homes/new databases (new life new beginning). at a point I realized that something is not right about database. One thing to another I found the reason and it was interesting to me. I used DBCA to create database ( also I […]
APPLY with status WITH ERRORS in the PDB
Yesterday, I was doing some tests about noncdb to pdb conversions and during one of these tests I got a strange error. By the way, I am doing those tests because of a side effect of noncdb to pdb. I have already created an SR about it and write a post here later. here is […]
How to Check Empty Space in a Securefile LOB
Hi, PS: please check last sql statement in this post for shorter and faster solution. first sql is for showing all information about the lob. Yesterday, while checking segment space usage data in a client’s database and some of the LOB segments were absurdly big. So, I want to check what is in it and […]
catcon.pl cheat sheet
Hello, Oracle uses a container database architecture permanently anymore, you should be familiar with “catcon.pl” perl file. Let’s say you have container database with 10 different PDBs and you need to run a script file on all of those pdbs (maybe even in root and seed too) so what you need is catcon.pl. catcon.pl will […]
Expanded controlfile section n from nnn to nnn records
Hello everyone, I have been already write revealing information that control file stores: https://mustafakalayci.me/2020/08/11/control-file-content-and-the-limits/. Data in control file is separated into “SECTIONS” and you can see those sections name (type) via V$CONTROLFILE_RECORD_SECTION view. for example, database separates a section for “BACKUP SET”s. every section has a record size limit . All those information can be […]
Audits are not Purged
Hello, This week I realized that some of my databases’ audit data are not purged and audit tables get bigger. I already have a scheduler job to purge my audit records but somehow job has been completed successfully but audit records are not deleted. This is 19.15 version, NON-CDB databases. I am using unified audit […]
lsnrctl or new db connection is too slow
Hello everyone, I know this is not new but I haven’t seen this problem for a long time and it takes a while to find out it. A team leader (who is an elder brother to me) from the company I started to my first job called me and asked about a problem on their […]
SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS Parameter and How can It Affect the Database
Hello, Let’s talk about the SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS parameter. It might have significant affect on your system so understanding how it works and what it cause is important. This parameter limits the number of cached cursors on the session. As you know there is 2 kind of parse SOFT and HARD. Hard parse is creating the cursor […]