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ORA-12505 SCAN Listener And JDBC

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Database

The Above Error Appears when trying to connect RAC database Using SCAN Listener through JDBC, I checked everything and it was working without any problem, I could not find any reason why this issue happened, nothing in the Listener.log.

So I Used the below connection String instead of above one.

jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=SCAN-LISTENER-NAME)(PORT=1530))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=Service-name)))

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


Share Folder as File System From Windows to Linux

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system
in this post i will show you how to share folder from windows to Linux , you can use smb but in this post i will use it in command line.

Option #1:
SMB

By Press ( ALT+F2 ) the new dialog will be opened just type in the box the below :

smb://windows-server-ip/shared folder 

Option #2: 
Using command line.
  • mkdir /windows-backup
  • as root user
  • mount -t cifs //windowsip/sharefolder -o username=administrator,password=administratorpassword /windows-backup.
  • run df -h to make sure the folder has been mounted.
Note :
If you are using RHEL 4 the above command will not work, check the below

mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=administratorpassword //windowsip/backup /windwos-backup

Thank you
Osama mustafa

Reference :
1- cyberciti Here

Steps To Create ODBC Connection in Linux

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Articles, Operating system


In this Document i will describe how to create ODBC Connection in Linux Step by Step. I uploaded my document to slideshare as usual you can download it from here.

Thanks for my friend Ilmar Kerm . 

Thank you 
Osama mustafa