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AWS RDS: Reading Oracle Traces from SQL*Plus

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Hi all,

One more for AWS services. Let’s say you need to read trace files from RDS, how to do it?

Here is an example of how to list and read those files based on the directories from the database setting. To see the existent directories:

SQL> select * from dba_directories;

OWNER DIRECTORY_NAME DIRECTORY_PATH ORIGIN_CON_ID
---------- ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------
SYS BDUMP /rdsdbdata/log/trace 0
SYS ADUMP /rdsdbdata/log/audit 0
SYS OPATCH_LOG_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/QOpatch 0
SYS OPATCH_SCRIPT_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/QOpatch 0
SYS DATA_PUMP_DIR /rdsdbdata/datapump 0
SYS OPATCH_INST_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/OPatch 0
SYS TMP /rdsdbdata/userdirs/01 0

7 rows selected.

Once identified the directory needed, we can list the file as per:

SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.listdir( p_directory => 'BDUMP')) order by mtime;

FILENAME TYPE FILESIZE MTIME
---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------
CPROD1_ora_48800.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_48800.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_86597.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_86597.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7999.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7999.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7997.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7997.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8240.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8240.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8381.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8381.trc file 995 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8540.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8540.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_9876.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_9876.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11142.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11142.trc file 883 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11182.trc file 883 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11182.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_55077.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_55077.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92260.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92260.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_123869.trc file 1000 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_123869.trm file 74 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_41305.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_41305.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_j002_3293.trc file 114049 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_j002_3293.trm file 370 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_mmon_71739.trc file 7511332 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_mmon_71739.trm file 738330 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92888.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92888.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
trace/ directory 323584 24-DEC-18
alert_CPROD1.log file 204808 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_70145.trc file 1470 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_70145.trm file 109 24-DEC-18

3845 rows selected.

With the trace file name confirmed, you can see the content with the following:

SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.read_text_file( p_directory => 'BDUMP', p_filename => 'trace/CPROD1_s003_81573.trc'));

From the trace file:
=========================
..................................................................................
index undo for leaf key operations
KTB Redo
op: 0x02 ver: 0x01
compat bit: 4 (post-11) padding: 1
op: C uba: 0x000e289e.51da.47
Dump kdilk : itl=98, kdxlkflg=0x1 sdc=0 indexid=0x1c53db block=0x0019bdc0
(kdxlpu): purge leaf row
key :(24):
07 78 76 0c 17 17 09 32 08 c7 07 1a 02 28 15 01 18 06 00 1a 3c 99 00 1e

File 3 is not mirrored.

End dump previous blocks for kdsgrp
* kdsgrp1-2: ***********************************************
kdsDumpState: RID context dump

45511581 rows selected.

Also, as a side note, something that may help you out is the listing with LIKE clause:

SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.listdir( p_directory => 'BDUMP')) where filename like '%CPROD1_s003_81573.trc%';

FILENAME TYPE FILESIZE MTIME
---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------
CPROD1_s003_81573.trc file 1948134047 23-DEC-18

I hope it helps! See you next post!

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Autonomous Linux – Did you hear about it?

Hi all!

Not long ago Oracle lunched the Oracle Autonomous Database which run from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This new service provides a database which several tasks are automated for you. From security patching, performance tunning and others…

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So what this is all about?

Now the Oracle Linux was added to the Autonomous family as well. This means it is an operation system which runs from OCI which goals are to provide a more secure, cost effective and high reliable system with less manual administrative tasks.

It’s not new that security patches are a must but who has the downtime avaliable or the staff to patch their systems every time a new patch is released?

With Oracle Ksplice you will have kernel patches without having to reboot your instance. zero-day vulnerabilities and overall reduced sys admin manual tasks. But we know that this type of solutions do not replace a professional but insetad free their time to do other more important tasks.

What are the down sides of it? In my humble opinion is that we dont have much option to deny a update once we have it automated. We can use the Oracle OS Management Service to manage the servers separating which we want to automate or to manual control.

Note from the Autonomous Linux page is that The Oracle Autonomous Linux image has been moved. It will no longer be available on the  Oracle Cloud Marketplace or the Oracle Images catalog. As of this date, it is available from the Platform Images catalog within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console, when creating a compute instance.

I got my seft locked out my OCI account (while studying for the free exams, if dont know what I´m talking abuot please see it here) so I wont be able to show scrren on how to create a insatnce useing the Autonomous Linux but for sure this will be done very soon.

Stay sharp!

Elisson Almeida

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Amazon RDS: How to perform RMAN operations?

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Hi all,

Need to performa any RMAN Operation from Amazon RDS? Maybe something like validating backups?

Well, we have some options under by using RDSADMIN_RMAN_UTIL package. See below an example for validate backup:

BEGIN
 rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.validate_database(
 p_validation_type => 'PHYSICAL+LOGICAL',
 p_parallel => 4,
 p_section_size_mb => 10,
 p_rman_to_dbms_output => FALSE);
END;
/

More info about it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.Oracle.CommonDBATasks.RMAN.html

Hope it helps, cheers!

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AWS RDS: Read Oracle Traces from SQL*Plus

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Hi all,

One more for AWS services. Let’s say you need to read tracefiles from RDS, hot to do it?

Here is an example on how to list and read those files:

SQL> select * from dba_directories;

OWNER DIRECTORY_NAME DIRECTORY_PATH ORIGIN_CON_ID
---------- ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------
SYS BDUMP /rdsdbdata/log/trace 0
SYS ADUMP /rdsdbdata/log/audit 0
SYS OPATCH_LOG_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/QOpatch 0
SYS OPATCH_SCRIPT_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/QOpatch 0
SYS DATA_PUMP_DIR /rdsdbdata/datapump 0
SYS OPATCH_INST_DIR /rdsdbbin/oracle/OPatch 0
SYS TMP /rdsdbdata/userdirs/01 0

7 rows selected.


SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.read_text_file( p_directory => 'BDUMP', p_filename => 'trace/CPROD1_s003_81573.trc'));


From the trace file:
=========================
..................................................................................
index undo for leaf key operations
KTB Redo
op: 0x02 ver: 0x01
compat bit: 4 (post-11) padding: 1
op: C uba: 0x000e289e.51da.47
Dump kdilk : itl=98, kdxlkflg=0x1 sdc=0 indexid=0x1c53db block=0x0019bdc0
(kdxlpu): purge leaf row
key :(24):
07 78 76 0c 17 17 09 32 08 c7 07 1a 02 28 15 01 18 06 00 1a 3c 99 00 1e

File 3 is not mirrored.

End dump previous blocks for kdsgrp
* kdsgrp1-2: ***********************************************
kdsDumpState: RID context dump

45511581 rows selected.

SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.listdir( p_directory => 'BDUMP')) order by mtime;

FILENAME TYPE FILESIZE MTIME
---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------
CPROD1_ora_48800.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_48800.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_86597.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_86597.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7999.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7999.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7997.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_7997.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8240.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8240.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8381.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8381.trc file 995 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8540.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_8540.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_9876.trc file 881 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_9876.trm file 71 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11142.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11142.trc file 883 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11182.trc file 883 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_11182.trm file 72 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_55077.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_55077.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92260.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92260.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_123869.trc file 1000 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_123869.trm file 74 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_41305.trc file 998 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_41305.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_j002_3293.trc file 114049 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_j002_3293.trm file 370 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_mmon_71739.trc file 7511332 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_mmon_71739.trm file 738330 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92888.trc file 997 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_92888.trm file 73 24-DEC-18
trace/ directory 323584 24-DEC-18
alert_CPROD1.log file 204808 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_70145.trc file 1470 24-DEC-18
CPROD1_ora_70145.trm file 109 24-DEC-18

3845 rows selected.

SQL> select * from table (rdsadmin.rds_file_util.listdir( p_directory => 'BDUMP')) where filename like '%CPROD1_s003_81573.trc%';

FILENAME TYPE FILESIZE MTIME
---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------
CPROD1_s003_81573.trc file 1948134047 23-DEC-18

									


			
		
	
         
           
         
         
    
	








		

		

			

				
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AWS: ALTER SYSTEM and Managing SYS Objects in RDS
			
			

				
		
			
			
			
		
				
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I’m very often managing services over EC2 and there are a few actions clients are often getting some issues to perform in RDS. So I decided to list here 5 of them:


Kill sessions:


begin
rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.kill(
sid => &sid,
serial => &serial,
method => 'IMMEDIATE');
end;
/


Flush shared_pool or buffer_cache:


exec rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_shared_pool;
exec rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_buffer_cache;




Grant Privileges to SYS Objects


# Grant


begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/


# Grant with Grant Option


begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name     => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee      => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege    => 'SELECT',
        p_grant_option => true);
end;
/


# Revoke


begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.revoke_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_revokee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/


 


Hope it Helps!

									


			
		
	
         
           
         
         
    
	








		

		

			

				
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Oracle Container for Kubernetes Hands-On – Porto Alegre
			
			

				
		
			
			
			
		
				
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Hello all!


I’m happy to announce here the next Meetup in Porto Alegre speaking over Oracle Container for Kubernetes  and how Oracle works with Cloud Native.


The meeting will be conducted by Diogo Shibata, from Oracle.


When?

Next October 2nd!


Where?

ATTIVE Coworking – Rua Carlos Gardel nº 55 – Bela Vista – Porto Alegre


Cost? FREE

Just confirm you presence here.


IMPORTANT: bring your laptop.


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Oracle cloud computing hand on
			
			

				
		
			
			
			
		
				
				 		
					


		


		
				

					
Oracle and others cloud providers are doing nice stuff building their cloud strategies.


Oracle is granting U$ 300 to quickly deploy OLTP /DW and other technology platforms.


With cloud and distributed infrastructure we can code, test, deploy and quickly build any lab purpose as a free* offer.


Let’s review and run the fastest & free sandbox machines for cloud improvements purpose.


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It runs good enogth 🙂


cloud 2


Quickly deploy machines. And receive classic middleware connection files.


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cloud 3


It run’s so easy,  but it may cost money/digital value as it ‘soon it burn’ credit at Oracle.


Why not to test it and build muilt-cloud solution?


Don’t forget security and data privacy standards and Oracle availability.


With this solution at cloud is so simple to run a ‘DB as a button’, it spent 2 minutes in my lab. It actually available on What is amazing time for typical lab or tech hand.


Let’s test it and CHEERS.

									


			
		
	
         
           
         
         
    
	











		

		

			

				
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Roundtable: How are Databases Adapting to New Cloud Architectures?
			
			

				
		
			
			
			
		
				
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Hi all!

Stay sharp, it’s confirmed event for next 27th evening Brazilian Time. If you around Três de Maio, hope you can make it in person!

Otherwise, we are looking forward to record and share session, still evaluating streaming options and requirements.


Note Grepora is sponsoring this roundtable, so count with you all!

Oh, it will be fully in portuguese. Hope you don’t mind. 🙂


Event: Round Table: “How are Databases Adapting to New Cloud Architectures”

Date: 27/6/2019 19:30 BRT (18:30 EST) to 21:00 (20:00 EST)

Estimated Duration: 1:30 hours


We count with great names, see below:


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See you there, cheers!

									


			
		
	
         
           
         
         
    
	








		

		

			

				
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Workshop: Best Practices for Oracle DB on Exadata: RUN, It’s Free!
			
			

				
		
			
			
			
		
					


		


		
				

					
Hey, you in Porto Alegre/Brazil!


Don’t miss this opportunity to have an official Oracle Workshop about Exadata Best Practices for Oracle Database!


This is being being promoted by GUORS in partnership with Oracle Brasil.


Draft - Convite (1)


When? June 26th from 2PM to 6PM BRT.

Where?  TecnoPUC-RS, room 206 – building 99A

Instructor: Valter Rodrigues da Oracle Brasil.


LIMITED POSITIONS: 30!




Requirements:


1. Like GUORS Page on Facebook AND LinkedIn

2. Like Oracle University on LinkedIn

3. Like GUOB on LinkedIn

4. Bring your notebook.

5. Basic knowledge on RAC


Subscribe ASAP!