PROCESSED Messages not clearing from Oracle Queue

I was contacted by Dev team to look into Development database where Oracle queue size kept  on increasing. As per them messages were not getting cleared.They were running count on Queue table and the count kept increasing. To find out exact cause I included the msg_state in the query and found out that there were…

ORA-01873 error running SAP pre-upgrade scripts

While trying to run pre_upgrade_status.sql script for DB upgrade (10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4), we got following error @pre_upgrade_status.sql ERROR at line 1: ORA-01873: the leading precision of the interval is too small ORA-06512: at line 8 On debugging further , found out that it was due to limit imposed on “INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND” datatype. By…

LGWR terminating instance due to error 338

Recently we came across a issue where our DB crashed with ORA-00338 error . Errors in file /oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl11g/orc11g/trace/orc11g_lgwr_24118.trc: ORA-00338: log 2 of thread 1 is more recent than control file ORA-00312: online log 2 thread 1: ‘/oracle/oradata/orcl11g/redo02.log’ LGWR (ospid: 24118): terminating the instance due to error 338 DB couldn’t be restarted as it gave same errors…

MGMTDB: Grid Infrastructure Management Repository

MGMTDB is new database instance which is used for storing Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) data. In 11g this was being stored in berkley database but starting Oracle database 12c it is configured as  Oracle Database Instance. In 11g, .bdb files were stored in $GRID_HOME/crf/db/hostname and used to take up lot of space (>100G) due to bug…

12c: Exporting Database Views as Tables

Starting Oracle Database 12c, you can export view to be imported as a table. There is no need to individually export each table, Data Pump will dump a table with the same columns as the view and with row data fetched from the view. It also exports objects dependent on the view, such as grants…