The error occurred when switching from MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE to MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY Data Guard mode on an Exadata system. The primary RAC database, running on version 19c, crashed with an ORA-600 error code. The error mentioned that the redo log for group 45, sequence 509, was incorrectly located on DAX storage, causing issues. The incident details […]
The symptoms include issues such as the ‘ALTER DATABASE OPEN’ process not completing as logged in the alert log file. DIA0 (Hang Manager reports) sessions are also blocked while waiting for ‘gc freelist.’ The hang manager reports instances waiting for ‘cursor: pin S wait on X’ and ‘gc freelist’, which can lead to extended waiting […]
This error is triggered when trying to update a column in a table that is part of a correlated subquery involving the same table. This issue was encountered in Oracle databases of versions equal to or greater than 12.1 but below 12.2, with 12.1.0.2 being the confirmed affected version. Description: The error was caused by […]
Bug Description The bug described in Bug 32043701 involves row cache locks for sequences in Real Application Clusters (RAC) due to the S-optimization feature for dc_sequences. This bug creates locks on the data dictionary rows, primarily to serialize changes to the data dictionary and wait for a lock on a data dictionary cache. How to […]
ORA-04091 is an Oracle error code that indicates that a trigger, stored procedure, or package has encountered a mutating table error. This error occurs when a trigger or procedure tries to modify a table that is already being modified by the same transaction. To resolve the ORA-04091 error, you can consider the following approaches: 1. […]
Buffer busy waits occur when multiple processes compete for access to specific blocks in the buffer cache of an Oracle database. In order to address this issue, it is essential to identify which blocks are causing contention and understand the reasons behind it. The most effective solution is to eliminate the root cause of the […]
Oracle Data Guard is a powerful, high-availability solution that ensures Oracle databases’ continuous availability and protection. Optimizing Oracle Net, which handles the network communication between the primary and standby systems, is essential to achieve optimal performance. This article will focus on optimizing Oracle Net for Data Guard by adjusting the TCP send and receive socket […]
If Performance Objectives are not being met, Quality of Service Management makes a recommendation. Each recommendation focuses on improving the highest-ranked Performance Class by exceeding its Performance Objective. Submissions may include changing consumer group mappings – and reprioritizing work within existing resource boundaries. For example, changing consumer group mappings may involve promoting a specific workload […]
When patching an Oracle home, you might run into problems. OPatch might not behave as expected. It is helpful to know where to look for error messages or find additional information to pass on to Oracle Support if you want to log an SR for your problem. So OPatch maintains logs for apply, rollback, and […]
You query V$INSTANCE_RECOVERY view and consistently receive an OPTIMAL_LOGFILE_SIZE value that is greater than the size of your smallest online redo log file. The OPTIMAL_LOGFILE_SIZE column of the V$INSTANCE_RECOVERY view can be used to determine the appropriate size for all of the online redo log files in your database. If the value of the OPTIMAL_LOGFILE_SIZE […]