Database, Errors and Bugs, Performance, SQL | PLSQL

Purging a SQL Cursor in 10g

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Hello all,
Having issues to purge SQL Cursor in a 10g database?

DBMS_SHARED_POOL.PURGE is available from 10.2.0.4 on, but according to “DBMS_SHARED_POOL.PURGE Is Not Working On 10.2.0.4 (Doc ID 751876.1)”, it is event-protected.
This means you need to set event 5614566 to be able to use the purge.

Example:

sys@PRODB10> select count(*) from v$sqlarea where sql_id='gbaq7x7myqxjw';

  COUNT(*)
----------
         1

sys@PRODB10> exec dbms_shared_pool.purge('00000003B0898118,1807156054','C')

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.


sys@PRODB10> select count(*) from v$sqlarea where sql_id='gbaq7x7myqxjw';

  COUNT(*)
----------
         1

sys@PRODB10> alter session set events '5614566 trace name context forever';

Session altered.

sys@PRODB10> exec dbms_shared_pool.purge('00000003B0898118,1807156054','C')

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

sys@PRODB10> select count(*) from v$sqlarea where sql_id='gbaq7x7myqxjw';

  COUNT(*)
----------
         0
Application | Middleware | GoldenGate, Fusion Middleware, Weblogic

Failures were detected while initiating deploy task for application “DbAdapter”

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Hi guys!

The following error occurs when I try to update a dbadapter or any other oracle apps adapter:
<BEA-149124> <Failures were detected while initiating deploy task for application “DbAdapter”. Error is: “There is the same running task 11 for DbAdapter#null”>

This error usually occurs when you are creating a new outbound connection with its respective plan.xml

Keep calm, you don’t have to redo the settings.

Do the following:
Activate the session, without updating the dbadapter or other oracle apps adapter that you were changing;
Create a new session in the weblogic console, update dbadapter and activate this session.

That’s all for today.

Database, Errors and Bugs, Windows

Install Oracle Client 12c on Windows 10 – INS-20802: Oracle Net Configuration Assistant failed

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Hello all!
Some days ago a client reach me because he was facing this error when installing Oracle Client 12.1.0.2.0 on Windows 10:

oracle12Error

Researching on topic found this.

Seems Oracle client 12.1.0.2 requires MSVC 2010 redistributable to proceed Oracle Net Configuration step.
After this requested client to install “Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package” on server. And issue solved! 🙂

The download of Package can be performed from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555

Hope it helps you!
See you next week!

Database, Errors and Bugs, Migration | Upgrades | Patching, Performance

ORA-00932 to Export Statistics After 12c Upgrade – Undocumented

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Hello All,
I have a client that use to Export and Import Dictionary Statistics using a stats table. However, after upgrading database to 12c, is started to raise error below to export data to a stats table (created in 11g) or even to update stats in this table.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.upgrade_stat_table('GREPORA','MYSTATSTABLE');
DECLARE
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected BINARY got NUMBER
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 40183
ORA-06512: at line 28

SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.EXPORT_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS (stattab => 'MYSTATSTABLE',statid  => 'TEST_MATHEUS',statown => 'GREPORA' );
BEGIN DBMS_STATS.EXPORT_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS (stattab => 'MYSTATSTABLE',statid  => 'TEST_MATHEUS',statown => 'GREPORA' ); END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected BINARY got NUMBER
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 37085
ORA-06512: at line 1

I reviewed several references (all very interesting, by the way, recommend you to take a look):
– ORA-20002 on Importing Statistics using DBMS_STATS Procedures (Doc ID 740345.1)
– Datapump Export Fails With Ora-00932 (Doc ID 1300803.1)
– Error “ORA-00932 – Inconsistent Datatypes: Expected BINARY Got NUMBER” When Executing the Primavera Gather-Statistics Scripts on an Oracle 12c Database (Doc ID 2111114.1)
– https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/concurrent-statistics-collection-12cr1
– http://www.morganslibrary.org/reference/pkgs/dbms_stats.html
– How To Export and Import Dictionary Statistics (Doc ID 1450820.1)
– Fixed Objects Statistics (GATHER_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS) Considerations (Doc ID 798257.1)

But no reference found to this specific issue, not even in MOS.

After some tests, I realized that maybe columns order in stats table can be changed in implementation between 11g and 12c. Bingo! The same columns and datatypes are in place, but in different order.

This is not documented in MOS neither on internet/independent blogs, but seems EXPORT% on DBMS_STATS presume stats table in it’s internal code without specified column orders.
As we know, a good development practice is to specify column names when performing any operation. Bad on you, Oracle!

More“ORA-00932 to Export Statistics After 12c Upgrade – Undocumented”

Database, GoldenGate

Introducing Oracle GoldenGate Studio 12.2.1

Now GoldenGate developments is easy friendly.

Cheers for Oracle Demo that include first mapping.

 

Oracle GoldenGate Studio Highligts:

  • Separating Logical from the fisical
    • One project contain many solutions
    • A Solutions contain one logical design and many Physical Deployments
  • You can AUTOMAP table mappings – drag and drop optional columns
  • Easy deployments
  • Easy to setup DB connections

Prost!

Database, Enterprise Manager, SQL | PLSQL

EM Event: Metrics “Current Open Cursors Count” is at %

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Hi all,
This is simple right?

Some dev is forgetting to close the cursors. 🙂
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I couldn’t find better reference than this article by Tech on the Net.

As DBA, we can identify the application schema which is causing the issue by the following:More“EM Event: Metrics “Current Open Cursors Count” is at %”

Cloud Services | Exadata | Linux, Database, Oracle Engineered Systems | Exadata

Exadata: 7 Useful Commands to check Port/Sensor Alarms

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Hello all!

This days I had an alarm with message below:

Message=The aggregate sensor /SYS/CABLE_CONN_STAT has a fault.

There is some useful commands I used to verify all ports/sensors in my exadata cluster.

In summary, these commands:
1) Use Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to read the Sensor Data Record (SDR) repository
2) Use Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to view the ILOM SP System Event Log (SEL)
3) Display all host nodes with ibhosts
4) Use ibcheckstate to scan InfiniBand fabric and validate the port logical and physical state
5) Use ibcheckerrors to scan InfiniBand fabric and validate the connectivity as described in the topology file
6) Checking for sensor healthy from switch
7) Check the overall health of the InfiniBand switch, on the Exadata switch itself

The Commands are:

More“Exadata: 7 Useful Commands to check Port/Sensor Alarms”

Application | Middleware | GoldenGate, Fusion Middleware

(OSB) Oracle Service Bus 12.2 – LDAP Authorization

Oracle Service Bus 12.2 is now available to download on Oracle support.

It bring news to middleware admin and new features to developer.

Now, all user priviledges and group roles are managed by ‘EM Console’. So it would be little confusing in this release.

I had little inconvenince on first time that I triyed to use OSB with LDAP autorization.

After configure Weblogic in LDAP, user could login in Weblogic Console (/console)

But, can’t login Service Bus Console (/sbconsole), taking in browser http 401 (Unauthorized)

In WL Admin log:

[AdminServer] [ERROR] [ADFC-50017] [oracle.adfinternal.controller.application.AdfcExceptionHandler] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '20' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: maiquel_oliveira] [ecid: fdf185a3-35fd-4171-9b75-4b80a0f40b03-000000cf,0] [APP: service-bus] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] [DSID: 0000Lu77u7K7q2r6wJAhMG1Pj34E000001] ADFc: While attempting to handle this exception the application's exception handler failed.[[
oracle.adf.controller.security.AuthorizationException: ADFC-0619: Authorization check failed: User 'user_name' does not have 'VIEW' permission on 'jsf.resourcesPageDef'.

Error 401–Unauthorized

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1:

10.4.2 401 Unauthorized

The request requires user authentication. The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.46) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource. The client MAY repeat the request with a suitable Authorization header field (section 14.8). If the request already included Authorization credentials, then the 401 response indicates that authorization has been refused for those credentials. If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has already attempted authentication at least once, then the user SHOULD be presented the entity that was given in the response, since that entity MAY include relevant diagnostic information. HTTP access authentication is explained in section 11.

Follow the trick:

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Database, Errors and Bugs

Long running jobs AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN_%

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Hello all!

Some time ago I had an issue with some jobs running for 64 days. Cool han?
All jobs names were AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN_%. All activity of jobs were related to SQLID f7zggdz9p7bhk in wait event “Streams AQ: waiting for messages in the queue”.

# SQLID f7zggdz9p7bhk:
begin SYS.SCHEDULER$_JOB_EVENT_HANDLER(context => :1,reginfo => sys.aq$_reg_info(:2, :3, :4, :5, :6, :7),descr => sys.aq$_descriptor(:8, :9, :10, sys.msg_prop_t(:11, :12, :13, :14, :15, :16, :17, :18, sys.aq$_agent(:19, :20, :21), :22, :23), sys.aq$_ntfn_descriptor(:24), :25, :26), payload => :27, payloadl => :28); end;

Reviewing on MOS, found a match to Bug 20528052 – Many AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN jobs executed affecting database performance (Doc ID 20528052.8).

The root cause is procedure SYS.SCHEDULER$_JOB_EVENT_HANDLER keep waiting AQ PL/SQL Notification callbacks associated with scheduler job email notifications for messages in “SYS”.”SCHEDULER$_EVENT_QUEUE” which no longer exist.

From MOS, this can be easily solved with fix for Bug 16623661 – No email notification is sent by scheduler, wich is included in 12.1.0.1 (base) and affect versions 11.2.0.2 and later.
Also from MOS, and which I did, is drop these jobs. The problem is these jobs just restart and have the same problem again after automated recreation.

So, apply the fix or upgrade your database. 😉

Some related references:
Bug 20528052 – Many AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN jobs executed affecting database performance (Doc ID 20528052.8)
AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN Scheduler Jobs Executed in large numbers affecting Database performance (Doc ID 2001165.1)
Bug 21665897: FIX FOR BUG 14712567 CAUSES LARGE NUMBERS OF AQ$_PLSQL_NTFN_% TO BE SPAWNED

Hope it helps!
Cheers!

Database, SQL | PLSQL

Purge Recycle Bin Older than…

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Hello all!

Have your recyclebin being full/big but don’t want to make a complete “PURGE RECYCLE BIN;”?
Want remove only older than x days (like older than 30 days)?

Please don’t:

DELETE from DBA_RECYCLEBIN where droptime<sysdate-30;
PURGE DBA_RECYCLEBIN where droptime<sysdate-30;

A good way to perform that is to execute output from:

# 30 Days
select 'purge table '||owner||'."'||OBJECT_NAME||'";' 
from dba_recyclebin where type='TABLE' 
and to_date(droptime,'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS')<sysdate-30;

# 30 minutes
select 'purge table '||owner||'."'||OBJECT_NAME||'";' 
from dba_recyclebin where type='TABLE' and 
to_date(droptime,'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS')<sysdate-(30/(24*60));

There is some reference here too:
How To Drop / Delete / Purge Recyclebin or DBA_RECYCLBIN For Objects Older Than x Days/minutes or selective purge of objects from recycle bin (Doc ID 1596147.1)

Hope it help you!
Cheers!