Submitted by dave on Fri, 02/24/2017 - 17:03
After 4 unexplained crashes and a stalled Sev 1 SR I was pulling my hair out. Particularly vexing was the fact that a user was running a distributed query which was crashing a remote database.
I isolated the 4 crash times for the remote database and I wanted to see what users and SQLs were running on the local database up until the crash time. So for a crash happening around 11:16 I would use the following query. Note that access to these queries requires licensing of Diagnostic and Tuning packs :
Submitted by dave on Thu, 09/15/2016 - 17:49
To troubleshoot a problem I needed to copy a database's worth of files out of an ASM diskgroup and onto the filesystem. I searched around and checked help for ASMCMD assuming there was a recursive option. I found references to one in some places on the interwebs, even official Oracle references to it like Unable To Copy Directory Using ASMCMD Cp -r Command (Doc ID 829040.1) but struck out when trying to do this on 11g and 12c ASM installs.
Submitted by dave on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 12:24
I recently came across a legacy database that was using Oracle FLOAT datatype for Primary and Foreign Keys. As the database needed some attention I was asked to get data types in order and get rid of the FLOATs in favor of NUMBER data types.
Submitted by dave on Tue, 03/08/2016 - 11:23
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of my old SQL Developer Archive Log Count Heat Map report that I created in SQL Developer. I was recently asked to estimate the amount of redo that might be sent to a DataGuard standby. Searching The Google for this and I found some methods for calculating Network Bandwidth but I wanted to start with raw redo generated from an instance using information from v$archived_log.
Submitted by dave on Mon, 02/08/2016 - 12:06
I was recently asked to update the EBS Plugin from 12.1.0.2.0 to 12.1.0.3.0 in my Cloud Control 12 setup. During the prereq steps I got an error: "EM-04050: The selected plug-ins cannot be deployed on the Management Server because there are some Management Agents on which incompatible versions of these plug-ins have been deployed."
Unfortunately no other information was given. I knew there must be some old versions of the Agent plugin floating around out there but didn't have an easy way to find them. Oracle Support to the rescue... Run the following against your SYSMAN schema:
Submitted by dave on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 12:20
This second vizualization is more of a workflow proof of concept compared to some novel visualization but I can guarantee you haven't seen the SCOTT.EMP table like this before. I have wanted to combine my two favorite tools for a while. Here is how you can drive a d3.js visualization directly from a SQL Developer custom report.
Submitted by dave on Thu, 03/05/2015 - 11:26
Submitted by dave on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 00:58
The first visualization I will be working on is something I have been wanting for a while. I need a way to quickly show SQL Statement performance over time for 1 statement, especially to identify Execution Plan volatility. When researching performance problems I often need to quickly digest historical performance of a trouble statement - a statement that usually has run fine for years but now has started acting up.
Submitted by dave on Fri, 08/01/2014 - 10:30
It is time for me to get my rear in gear. I have tons of notes floating around on Oracle administration and performance related visualizations I would like to work on but without a deadline things start dragging out... Like when you have a weight loss or stop smoking goal that becomes real when you tell people about it.
Submitted by dave on Wed, 06/25/2014 - 15:44
I gave my talk "Time for Some New Graphs: Incorporating Time and Animation Elements into Your Web App Visualizations" at KScope14 this week. As usual KScope has delivered on content and experts. I have been enjoying immersing myself in the Administration and Apex tracks.
Here are the slides to my presentation : Time For Some New Graphs - Slides
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