October 28, 2015 archive

My OOW15 Trip Is Complete

I’m leaving Open World 2015 a day early. I managed to pack in an awful lot of activity into the three days I was here and I met up with some very nice people. I expect that my OOW experience was similar to many others. There was so much to do and not enough time. …

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Cursor Obsoletion Dump

After our recent upgrades to Oracle 12.1.0.2, we noticed a few non-production databases that were filling up the DIAGNOSTIC_DEST. There were huge trace files in there which contained this type of information: —– Cursor Obsoletion Dump sql_id=6aca4drrt76x3 —– Parent cursor obsoleted 1 time(s). It appears this is a known bug in 12.1.0.2. Oracle turned on …

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