Oracle patch prerequisite check OPatch OEM MOS

Oracle database patching is one of the most frequently executed maintenance activities that every DBA does in his life. The task is fairly simple and straight forward using the patch instructions from My Oracle Support (MOS). However in this article I’d like to highlight the importance of different Patch Prerequisite Checks that you have to perform before doing the patching itself. I think the entire success of patching exercise depends mostly on this step as seen on the below table that represents major PSU patching steps and approximate time lines. The rest of this draft document describes some best practices, tips and code examples for doing patch prerequisite checks using OEM Cloud Control, MOS and OPatch utility. Comments, adjustments, other tips and ideas are welcome and will be included in this post.

Oracle DB PSU patching steps

Oracle database PSU patching steps

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Oracle DBaaS in Private Database Cloud workshop

Designing Database as a Service (DBaaS) in own Database Cloud is very comprehensive topic and it requires a lot of things: clear concept and strategy, solid planning, important architecture decisions, considerable involvement of different stakeholders, extra budget, etc. To start talking about this topic I’ll give my own definition of DBaaS which is a managed database service, hosted and offered by DBaaS provider on pay-per-usage basis, which provides access to own database resource with flexible on-demand system scaling capabilities. DBaaS on high level consists of three major pillars: Business, Operation and Technology and you cannot start with the most interesting one, which is certainly Technology (at least for me :).

Oracle DBaaS in Private Database Cloud workshop

DBaaS workshop in Munich with Ralf Durben and Manual Hossfeld

Last week being a part of exclusive Oracle Database Day workshop I learned and discussed the possibilities of building a DBaaS based on Private Database Cloud with best Oracle Germany experts in Munich. This time we talked exactly about DBaaS Technology and specifically about Oracle Cloud Management capabilities. With help of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 12c Cloud Control and OEM Self Service Portal you can establish a framework for end-users to provision own DBaaS components with a few mouse clicks. In Oracle terms these DBaaS components can be the following:
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Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Wrap Up – Part 2

Oracle technology highlights at OpenWorld 2012

Key Session – Oracle technology highlights at OpenWorld 2012

Read below is the second part of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Wrap Up. It’s about OEM Cloud Control, Unstructured data, Database Consolidation and some other topics. Read more »

Oracle ADDM shows Virtual Memory Paging on 10gR2 11gR2

Problem description

I’ve recently notices a common issue on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x with Oracle database 10gR2 and 11gR2. The Oracle ADDM Performance Analysis showed the following alert as a top event  in both OEM console – Virtual Memory Paging and in the ADDM report – Significant virtual memory paging was detected on the host operating system.

Problem Analysis

From the first look I thought this was a virtual memory issue on the boxes but on the other hand I could not find any evidence at OS level of any problem with virtual memory paging. Additionally I was surprised that the issue occurred at the same time on different servers and Oracle versions. So, below I did some checks to prove there was no memory issue on these Linux boxes. Read more »

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