Behind the scene – Integrated Capture

GoldenGate Integrated Extract bring some advantages to business and to the administrator.

It also bring new things to Database and DBA 🙂

Have you debug GoldenGate operations on Database?

I have it, so I’ll show the tricks.

Connection thru Oracle databases:

When you register your GoldenGate extract, it is registered in the database DBA views. It also create an point to start the capture – check SCN returned from GG registration.

GGSCI (grepora as ggate@grepdb) 10> register extract E_REP database
INFO    OGG-02003  Extract E_REP successfully registered with database at SCN 298357743941.

In the database side, when you register the extract, it fire some alerts on database alert_*.log

Like this:

GoldenGate CAPTURE CP04 for OGG$CAP_E_REP started with pid=38, OS id=27066592
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Start SCN: 7298357743941 (0x48055145.000006a3)
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: First SCN: 7298357743941 (0x48055145.000006a3)
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Required Checkpoint SCN: 0 (0x0000.00000000)
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Captured SCN: 0 (0x0000.00000000)
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Applied SCN: 0 (0x0000.00000000)
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Capture Type: DOWNSTREAM
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Logminer Id: 458
CAPTURE OGG$CAP_E_REP: Source Database: COREDB
First applied SCN of the GoldenGate path from capture (OGG$CAP_E_REP) to propagation () to apply (OGG$E_REP) is set to SCN: 7298357743941 (0x48055145.000006a3)
GoldenGate CAPTURE CP04 for OGG$CAP_E_REP with pid=38, OS id=27066592 is in combined capture and apply mode.
Capture OGG$CAP_E_REP is handling 1 applies.
  -- capture is running in apply-state checkpoint mode.
GoldenGate downstream capture OGG$CAP_E_REP uses downstream_real_time_mine: FALSE
Starting persistent Logminer Session with sid = 458 for GoldenGate Capture OGG$CAP_E_REP
LOGMINER: Parameters summary for session# = 458
LOGMINER: Number of processes = 0, Transaction Chunk Size = 1
LOGMINER: Memory Size = 60M, Checkpoint interval = 1000M
LOGMINER: SpillScn 0, ResetLogScn 7116144954722
LOGMINER: summary for session# = 458
LOGMINER: StartScn: 7298358258174 (0x06a3.480d29fe)

In Oracle database, what GoldenGate will mean?
MEANS few things.

Will find registered process on some dba view.

SQLPLUS> select CAPTURE_NAME,CAPTURE_USER,FIRST_SCN from dba_capture;

CAPTURE_NAME       CAPTURE_USER   FIRST_SCN
--------------------------------------------
OGG$CAP_E_REP    GGATE         7298357743941


SQLPLUS> select id,name from dba_logmnr_session;
        ID       NAME
---------------------------------
       456  OGG$CAP_E_REP

SQLPLUS> select SERVER_NAME,STATUS,USER_COMMENT,START_SCN from DBA_XSTREAM_OUTBOUND;
                                                                    
SERVER_NAME    STATUS   USER_COMMENT                  START_SCN
----------------------- ---------------------------------------
OGG$E_REP   DETACHED E_REP GoldenGate Extract  7298357743

SQLPLUS> select SERVER_NAME,CREATE_DATE,USER_COMMENT from SYS.XSTREAM$_SERVER;
 
SERVER_NAME   CREATE_DATE                USER_COMMENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OGG$E_REP  04/08/17 20:00:30,428026   E_REP GoldenGate Extract

Transactions made before it will be lose.

In first GoldenGate Integrate extract startup will inform in ggserr.log

OGG-02065  Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, e_rep.prm:  Integrated capture dictionary initialization in progress. State of logmining server: MINING (PROCESSED SCN = 7298358147459).
OGG-02065  Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, e_rep.prm:  Integrated capture dictionary initialization in progress. State of logmining server: LOADING (step 38 of 68).
OGG-02065  Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, e_rep.prm:  Integrated capture dictionary initialization in progress. State of logmining server: LOADING (step 68 of 68).
OGG-02248  Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, e_rep.prm: Logmining server DDL filtering enabled.

This process should increase Oracle Database CPU and Memory utilization.

When GoldenGate Integrate Extract working, will append LOGMINER infos on alert_*.log

LOGMINER: Begin mining logfile for session 456 thread 1 sequence 110429, +DGFRA/onlinelog/group_23.308.907862971
LOGMINER: End   mining logfile for session 456 thread 1 sequence 95230, +DGFRA/onlinelog/group_34.302.907863101
LOGMINER: Begin mining logfile for session 456 thread 1 sequence 95231, +DGFRA/onlinelog/group_33.292.909679041

 

Pay attention, in alert_*log LOGMINER does not register which process is capturing (eg. E_REP) but it prints de ID for session, that can be related to dba_logmnr_session.

In next post I will cover more about this debug on v$session / v$trancation view.

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