While applying Combo of OJVM and Database Release Update 19.9.0.0.201020, something comes to my mind that when and why “startup upgrade” is needed ? Is it possible to startup database in normal mode before running datapatch command for post-installation step?
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One client OEM reports the following incidents intermittently from OEM 13c.
Host=racnode1.virtuallab
Target type=Automatic Storage Management
Target name=+ASM1_racnode1.virtuallab
Categories=Availability
Message=Failed to connect to ASM instance. The connection is closed: The connection is closed
Severity=Fatal
Event reported time=20/12/2020 09:19:01AM EST
Target Lifecycle Status=Test
Operating System=LINUX
Platform=X86_64
Associated Incident Id=12345
Associated Incident Status=New
Associated Incident Owner=oracle
Associated Incident Acknowledged By Owner=No
Associated Incident Priority=High
Associated Incident Escalation Level=0
Event Type=Target Availability
Event name=Status
Availability status=Down
Let’s do some investigations, and provide the easy workaround if patches are unavailable to some clients.
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This post demonstrates how to check a process memory usage in Linux. While there are system resource issues, it is always helpful to identify the root cause by checking suspected process memory usage, which can be memory leaking from time to time.
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One of the OEM agent log has the following error, and some of the jobs fail due to the database connection issues:
$ grep ORA-24327 *
gcagent.log.16:em_error=Could not connect to dbsnmp/(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(Port=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=RACTESTDB1))): ORA-24327: need explicit attach before authenticating a user (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)
The output from CA( Corrective Action) job:
Connector descriptor is (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=RACTESTDB)(SERVER=DEDICATED)))
Could not connect to SYSTEM/(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=RACTESTDB)(SERVER=DEDICATED))):ORA-24327: need explicit attach before authenticating a user (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)
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DBAs are always asked about the database performance issues, which are mostly caused by some SQL queries’ execution plan changes.
This post demonstrates how to get a SQL query performance details like executions, disk/physical read/write, cpu time, elapsed time and waiting time, etc.
With the help of those statistics of a specific SQL query, DBA can easily identify the issue, and remediate it by applying SQL plan baselines.
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