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My Days As an Oracle ACED : BGOUG

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
12 – 14 June save the date because it’s Bulgarian Oracle User group Events, this is my first time in Bulgaria and my first time as an oracle ACE director in any events :).

My Trip Planned to be from Jordan to Bulgaria – Sofia  and as usual i need to stop in one of world airport to reach my destinations first which i really hate because it’s wasting of time and tiring me.
my stop was in Frankfurt airport and to be there i had to spent 5-6 hours in the plane to reach there and then wait another 5 hours in the airport and reach Sofia 3 hours in the plane. but lucky me the plane is delayed in Jordan and i waited for 2 hours only :).
I reach Sofia but i was really exhaust and tired from traveling because my trip started early morning and it’s took us 2 hours to reach the hotel from the airport but even with this i have to thanks one of the best organizer i ever seen Milena Gerova She organized everything very well the hotels, the taxi, the appreciation events & sessions.
I had 2 presentation there about Fusion middleware and like usual i organized RAC ATTACK On Saturday, The audience was really amazing and asking very good questions. 
I had so much fun in Bulgaria and one of the best events i attended, simply it’s really Green every where you look it’s green, and I learned some Bulgarian dance  because i knew everyone in Bulgaria should dance 🙂 Even Tom Kyte was dancing,Svetoslav and Heli as well so why not ? 
It’s really nice to meet old friends and meeting new one  🙂 

Cheers
Osama Mustafa 

Dealing with Crontab

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system
Schedule tasks under Linux is an powerful procedure which is used by almost everyone, and to do this using program called cron. more about it here .

Procedure :

make a new text file, and enter this line in that text file like the below :-

crontab myfirstjob

Formatting crontab file :-

what this file contains

Number
Meaning
Allowed range
1
Minutes
0-59
2
Hours
0-23
3
Days
1-31
4
Months
1-12 OR First 3 letters of the Month name
5
Days of the week
0-7 OR First 3 letters of the Day name
6
Name of the program
Any program

Some useful command can be used with cron :-

Show all the task running under cron.

crontab -l

edit the crontab

crontab -e

Some example from crontab file :-

# Minute   Hour      Day of Month       Month                 Day of Week        Command  
# (0-59)     (0-23)     (1-31)             (1-12 or Jan-Dec)    (0-6 or Sun-Sat)              
    0               12           *                             *                         *            /u01/backup.sh

For more example about crontab press here

Cheers
Osama Mustafa

How to add storage to ESXI 5.5

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Others
in this post i will show you how to add New Storage to ESXI 5.5 using vsphere client follow the screenshot :-

  1. Login to Vsphere client
  2. Select the host and then choose the Configuration tab –> Storage. like below


  • Storage Type :-

  • Which Storage you want add :-
  • VMFS-3 For our case

  • Storage Name

  • maximum file size and capacity of the database.

  • Press Finish
  • Summary 

Cheers
osama mustafa

Oracle Application Adapter installation.

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Fusion Middleware
Regarding to Oracle Documentation :-

The Application Adapter installer for 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3.0) is applicable for the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite and Oracle Service Bus (OSB). The Application Adapters that are installed can be used with Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Mediator, Business Process Management (BPM), and OSB components. Using this installer, Application Adapters can be installed in a standalone SOA environment, standalone OSB environment, or mixed (SOA and OSB) environment.

You can check from here

The installation is not that hard , it’s all about configuration. i will post about later.

You Can Download it from here.

Operating system : Oracle Linux.

Installation Steps :-

As You see you should installed Oracle SOA Or Oracle OSB.
If you are using Oracle SOA the path will be like the below :-
\Oracle_SOA1\
For Oracle OSB :-
\Oracle_OSB1\
Be Notice this application installed in the following Path :-
\Oracle_SOA1\soa\thirdparty\ApplicationAdapters\
Thank you 
Osama mustafa

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges On ASM – Grid Infrastructure 11gR2

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Database
Today like any other day started with customer call , Telling me There is problem on Grid infrastructure after restarting both node, They change heartbeat from cables to connected on switch after i told them to do this.

The Error in the logs like the  below :-
CRS-5011:Check of resource “+ASM” failed: details at “(:CLSN00006:)”

Node #2 was running without any problem , the issue was with node #1 and nothing changed recently.

The Error in Node #1 :-

crsctl start cluster

PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.asm
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
CRS-5017: The resource action “ora.asm start” encountered the following error:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
. For details refer to “(:CLSN00107:)” in “/u01/app/grid/11.2.0.4/log/lux335/agent/ohasd/oraagent_oracle/oraagent_oracle.log”.

as you see from the above error “ORA-01031: insufficient privileges” i was running this command as root.
After check node #1 the solution so simple :-

Under $GRID_HOME/network/admin
vi sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE)

which is wrong and to be changed to the following value :-

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS)

Reboot Node #1 and everything running successfully.

Thank you
Osama mustafa

soft limit maximum user processes/Oracle Linux

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system

As Root User access to
[root@EM12C Packages]# vi /etc/security/limits.conf

Then add the below line or modify it :

oracle              soft    nproc   2047
oracle              hard    nproc   16384
oracle              soft    nofile  4096
oracle              hard    nofile  65536
oracle              soft    stack   10240

Thank you
Osama Mustafa 

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Others
Oracle 12c Released in July 2013, and with every release for new oracle database version we expect huge amount of book to be released also, Books Talking about new Features, Administration, RAC, Data Guard,and finally Backup and Recovery.

When I am looking  for Oracle book it should have three Main things at least :

  • Description ( Table Of Content )
  • Examples for the new features.
  • Cover The specific topic and cover it so well.
Recently i received an email from Packt Publishing WebSite Here to review A book for Oracle 12c Related to Backup and Recovery, the Book Title

            ” Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide”

The above book written  by two oracle experts

  • Francisco Munoz ( Oracle ACE Director )
  • Aman Sharma ( Oracle ACE )
And Trust me when i am saying i need another post to talk about these two author. the books contain an amazing information for every DBA, it’s not necessary to be an expert to buy this book because they already covered everything from beginning with Examples or should i say with Lot of examples, what i would say here i recommended this book because it’s contain best practice for Backup and Recovery Covered by two Oracle Experts.
Description for Table Of Content :

Chapter 1: Understanding the Basics of Backup and Recovery 
First Chapter describe the Backup basic, why the backup is very important and what is the most common issue 

Chapter 2: NOLOGGING Operations
I have to say this chapter give me new idea about Nologging, and describe Best Solution for Nologging and Logging Operating in Database. 
Chapter 3: What is New in 12c 
Discuss 12c New Feature Related to Backup and Recovery ( RMAN,Datapump .. ) and simple description about multitenant Features and Architecture. 
Chapter 4: User-managed Backup and Recovery
Describe All kind of backup,Offline,cold and hot with Examples and Description for these example.

Chapter 5: Understanding RMAN and Simple Backups
This Chapter Describe RMAN Architecture & RMAN Concept Backup and how to use RMAN with oracle 12c,how to backup Controlfile, Spfile and Archive log,how to use Fast Incremental Backup. 
Chapter 6: Configuring and Recovering with RMAN
This Chapter Covered how to configure database for backup and recovery and how to configure RMAN for Backup, All the configuration covered by Examples and Lot Of scenarios.Configuration for Compression backup,snapshot and authentication for RMAN.

Chapter 7: RMAN Reporting and Catalog Management
From the Name of this chapter it’s covered RMAN Catalog and Report command and List command to get query and check backup.

Chapter 8: RMAN Troubleshooting and Tuning

This is Excellent Chapter for All DBA it’s Contains information how to troubleshoot RMAN,Tune RMAN, and how to monitor RMAN Session , Useful for Every DBA.
Chapter 9: Understanding Data Pump
This Chapter talking about Data Pump Architecture and Examples how to move data use data pump.
Chapter 10: Advanced Data Pump
If you want to move to next level and Increase your knowledge about Data pump , this chapter contains topics every DBA needs such as create small copies of production, create database in different file Structure, Moving Object from one table space to another and other excellent topics.

Chapter 11: OEM12c and SQL Developer
Enterprise manager 12c and Sql Developer friends for DBA, and Have been used started to used by DBA’s  All the above chapter using the command Line, but this one describe how to use these Two Tools to Configure backup and monitor backup, using export/import with EM12c.

About the Author :

Francisco Munoz Alvarez 
has over two decades of experience in consulting, analysis, support, implementation, and migration of Oracle products. He is also an expert in most phases of a database life cycle, for example, development, stabilization, security, backup and recovery, tuning, installations, and data warehouse (ETL) with excellent implementation and support methodologies. He is a popular speaker at many Oracle conferences around the world.

Aman Sharma 
is an Oracle Database consultant and instructor. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and has been working with Oracle Database for over a decade. His main focus is to understand how Oracle Database works internally. Besides the core database, he has a very strong knowledge of Linux, Solaris, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Enterprise Manager.


You can Order the Book Now :

Finally i would thank Francisco & Aman for this amazing Book.

Thank you 
Osama Mustafa


Change SQL Developer Java Home

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Application
If you want to change the Java Home for SQL Developer , You Have to Locate product.conf and set JAVAHOME to the new one.

On Linux :

Usually it’s Located in /home/oracle

cd ./sqldeveloper/4.0.0/
Edit Product.conf
and Search For setJavaHome to new One

 On Windows : 

It’s Depend on user :

C:\Users\Osama\AppData\Roaming\sqldeveloper\4.0.0
and edit the same file.

Thank you
Osama Mustafa