ORA-29760: instance_number parameter not specified

I felt myself stupid when I lost a few minutes to undestand this error:

SQL> startup pfile=init_corpdb.ora
ORA-29760: instance_number parameter not specified

Do you belive the solution was simply to set a number in ORACLE_SID?
Take a look:

dbsrvr>echo $ORACLE_SID
corpdb
dbsrvr>export ORACLE_SID=corpdb_1
dbsrvr>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sun Jun 28 00:18:05 2015
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup pfile=init_corpdb.ora
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 4275781632 bytes
Fixed Size 2220200 bytes
Variable Size 889196376 bytes
Database Buffers 3372220416 bytes
Redo Buffers 12144640 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

I hope neve miss time with this again… 😛

Matheus.

ASM: Disk Size Imbalance Query

It can be useful if you work frequently with OEM metrics…

# OEM’s Query

SELECT file_num, MAX(extent_count) max_disk_extents, MIN(extent_count)
min_disk_extents
, MAX(extent_count) - MIN(extent_count) disk_extents_imbalance
FROM (SELECT number_kffxp file_num, disk_kffxp disk_num, COUNT(xnum_kffxp)
extent_count
FROM x$kffxp
WHERE group_kffxp = 1
AND disk_kffxp != 65534
GROUP BY number_kffxp, disk_kffxp
ORDER BY number_kffxp, disk_kffxp)
GROUP BY file_num
HAVING MAX(extent_count) - MIN(extent_count) > 5
ORDER BY disk_extents_imbalance DESC;

# Matheus’ Query

select max(free_mb) biggest, min(free_mb) lowest, avg(free_mb) AVG,
trunc(GREATEST ((avg(free_mb)*100/max(free_mb)),(min(free_mb)*100/avg(free_mb))),2)||'%' as balanced,
trunc(100-(GREATEST ((avg(free_mb)*100/max(free_mb)),(min(free_mb)*100/avg(free_mb)))),2)||'%' as inbalanced
from v$asm_disk
where group_number in
(select group_number from v$asm_diskgroup where name = upper('&DG'));

I made my own query for two reasons:
1) I didn’t have the OEM query in the time i made it.
2) My query measures the imbalance with the avg of the disks (if every disk would balanced, how would be the difference), rather than the real/present difference between the disk with the maximum and the minimum usage…

So, you can chose the one you need… 🙂

Matheus.