Hello To All! Has anyone had experience good, bad, or otherwise applying Oracle 12c v12.1.0.2 Quarterly CPU Database/OJVM/JDK patches in Windows (any version). The database is hanging for us when we do it, we end up recovering the database to a point back-in-time. Usual SQL-Plus commands such as shutdown immediate and shutdown abort do not work, instead showing ORA-01033 oracle-initiation-or-shutdown-in-progress error message, even for shutdown abort. ps -ef is not an option since this is Windows and not unix/linux. If you were able to successfully apply the patches please let us know, includi ..read more

Sorry if I posted this twice, but I looking for some guidance in setting up NetSuite ?MRP. Anyone out there using it ..read more

Has any one gone through setting up MRP and Supply Planning. We had refresh the repository and I having issues with mapping the child components to top level BOM. From what I have read this should be possible so I think it's in the set up. Any help is appreciated ..read more

DB Version : 19c  In Oracle, is it always a good idea to index a foreign key column ? Is the below mentioned reason the primary reason to index foreign keys in Oracle ? "As a general rule, the need to define a foreign key implies that there will be SQL statements that require a join of the parent and child tables. Without a foreign key index, this SQL could not perform a nested loops join, and a more expensive sort merge join might be required" select cust_name, order_details from cust c, ordor o, where c.cust_id = o.cust_id; Source: http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_foreign_ ..read more

Hi all , We are $ORACLE_GRID Version 12.1.02. Our OS is SunOS 5.10 Generic_150400-51 sun4v sparc sun4v. One of disk group is 90% full and i am looking to see if there are any raw LUNS available so that i can stamp on it and add it to DG. I was looking for ORACLEASM location but do not know where it is located? Please give me some tips or feeback. Thanks ..read more

Hello, I have Oracle Database 19c Standard Edition 2 Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production database with one PDB. I need to create one more PDB, which gonna be much smaller in size and which gonna user "low" resources. What is best way to make this pdb (using resource_limit? I never used that so some link and if you have some experience). Thank you ..read more

Dear Friends I want to see the history of SQL statements executed by the specific user. How can I do it? Please help. Regards Kam ..read more

We have a NFS file system mounted on DB server, and it contains RMAN backups data and backups data only, nothing else, no control file, or any other Oracle data. If this NFS file system went down: Would it cause DB inaccessible assuming there is no DB backups / restoration running? Would it prevent me to start up DB, or cause startup process to hang? These questions may too basic to you, but, I am not DBA. Thanks! 1 ..read more

Hello I have two tables with below sizes. The server has 4 cpu. estimated "PROTECT"."MESSAGECOMPONENTLOB"       873.8 GB  estimated "PROTECT"."MESSAGELOB"           828.9 GB I ran expdp \'/ as sysdba\' parallel=4 to take the export in separate sessions. First table (MESSAGECOMPONENTLOB) , the load distrubed to dmp files equally however second table it didn't hence export took longer for the second table. Any idea why ? 1st table: oracle$ ls -lrt protect_messagecom_* -rw-r-----   ..read more

Greetings We migrated to 19c for our Oracle EBS R12 (12.2.10) 2 weeks back & came across a set of error messages. Platform: Oracle Linux 7.9 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of release command at 02/16/2022 14:19:47 RMAN-06012: channel: c1 not allocated RMAN> RMAN> RMAN> RMAN> RMAN> RMAN> 2> RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN ..read more