Brian Peasland

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Agent Is Blocked

I recently upgraded a database from Oracle 10.2.0.3 to Oracle 11.2.0.2. Everything went well. Some time after the upgrade, Grid Control 11g sent me an alert with the following: Agent is blocked. Blocked reason is: Agent is out-of-sync with repository. This most likely means that the agent was reinstalled or recovered. Please contact an EM …

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Error Adding Standby

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I have been trying to create a Standby database from a new Primary that was recently put into production. I like how Grid Control automates much of the work for me. So Enterprise Manager is my preferred method. I recently ran into a problem using the Add Standby Database wizard in my 11g Grid Control. …

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Brand New Production Database

Every once in a while, no matter which company I work for, I am asked to set up a new production database. I was working on this very task today when I started thinking about how much work it was to create a brand new database in that past, how much the DBCA handles for …

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Wait Event: asynch descriptor resize

In my recently upgraded production database, I am seeing a number of SQL statements that are now experiencing high waits on the “asynch descriptor resize” event. I recently upgraded from 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.2 and SQL statements that never waited on this event are now getting caught. Oracle 11.2 slightly changed the way the database and …

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HUD in a Contact

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Background Processes

I swear that as I get further and further along in my Oracle career, I have a harder and harder time keeping up with Oracle’s background processes. I’d like to chalk this up to getting older, but after digging into it, I’m pretty sure its just Oracle’s explosion of background processes in 11g that is …

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Earth View from Space

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Installing RAC for a Database with Datafiles

Not that long ago, I needed to upgrade Oracle Clusterware and RDBMS from 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.2. I have tons of experience with the Oracle RDBMS software, but I suspect that I am like most DBA’s in that my Clusterware experience is not at the same level as my RDBMS experience. So while I had no …

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11gR2 Compression Advisor = Evil

I recently upgraded to 11.2.0.2 from 11.1.0.7. Immediately after the upgrade, I noticed a spike in our redo generation. I also noticed tables with names like DBMS_TABCOMP_TEMP_UNCMP and DBMS_TABCOMP_TEMP_CMP. What are those tables doing in my production schemas and how did they get there? After digging, I was able to find out that these are …

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LOB RETENTION

In the past, one would use the PCTVERSION storage parameter for their LOB segments to reserve a percentage of storage space for read consistency of LOB segments. In Oracle 11g, you can now use the RETENTION parameter. The RETENTION parameter will use the UNDO_RETENTION parameter for determining how long to keep LOB data for read-consistency …

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