Yes, they did it! Finally, last night’s announcement from Oracle Support brought a long-missed feature: We can opt-in to get Service Request details in MOS’ notification emails. It’s of great benefit when you are on the road, no need to log in to the far-famed support portal. This is how the CUA has to allow […]
Year: 2013
ORA-600 [kokiasg1] – reasons and workaround
Last days, I had an interesting issue with a customer’s test database. The DB crashed, after manually but unintentionally corrupting the SYS schema (dropping an unknown number of objects). Restarting the instance (open) ended with: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kokiasg1], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [] Our quick fix […]
Oracle Real World Performance Tour 2014 with Tom Kyte and friends in München (Munich)
The German Oracle User Group (DOAG Deutsche Oracle Anwendergruppe) announced Munich as a location of the Real World Performance Tour 2014 with Tom Kyte, Senior Technical Architect ORACLE Server Technology Division, ORACLE Vice President Graham Wood, Architect Server Technologies Andrew Holdsworth, Senior Director Real World Performance Server Technologies Location: Munich (Details coming soon) Date: February […]
Upcoming DBA in Team Oracle Germany? :)
I’m no fan of preselecting kid’s ways of life. But I couldn’t resist bringing a T-Shirt from OpenWorld back to Germany. Now since it fits Maxi, I’m just loving it. 🙂 The other picture is my teammate Benedikt as Maxi’s cushion. 🙂 Please: Let […]
Oracle SQL Developer connection storm at startup
Oracle SQL Developer (tested with version 3.2.20.09) does some unwanted network connection testing against all configured connections (by TNSPING). We noticed that it causes a kind of unwanted “inverse” connection storm to all configured databases, when we start the SQL Developer. It’s not restoring aborted connections or stuff like that, all was quit before stopping […]
DOAG Webinar: ORACLE Datenbank Architektur – nicht nur für Einsteiger (German Language)
On Friday, 08/03/2013, I’ll present an online lecture about Oracle Architecture for the DOAG (Deutsche Oracle Anwendergruppe, German Oracle User’s Group) and the DOAG SIG Database. Link: http://www.doag.org/termine/termine.php?tid=454245 The lesson will contain (excerpt from TOC): Oracle Datenbank-Architektur Verbindung, Namespace(s) und Abschottung Instanz und Datenbank Alles Blöcke, oder was? Redo, Undo und was man […]
Oracle Grid Infrastructure: 11.2.0.3.5 PSU on AIX: gipchaLowerRecv: invalid message header hdr
Just a quick note: if you plan to apply PSU 5 on top of 11.2.0.3 on AIX 6.1 or 7.1 – it has a known issue. CSSD will not start on the second node (depending on the order how you start OHASD in the cluster) and ocssd.log will show “gipchaLowerRecv: invalid message header hdr” with […]
Oracle Grid Infrastructure / ASM – ERROR: failed to update diskgroup resource ora.DATA.dg
Recently, when installing a database on a grid infrastructure, dbca failed with the message that it wasn’t able to establish the dependency between the database and the corresponding grid infrastructure resource of the DATA ASM disk group I was using for my data files. Its name would have been “ora.DATA.dg”. (ERROR: failed to establish dependency […]