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Course Name:
Oracle Goldengate Fundamentals, Troubleshooting and Tuning
Duration:
5 Days
Course outline:
Day 1

Technology Overview

• Creating Oracle GoldenGate Topologies

• Reviewing Oracle GoldenGate Use Cases
• Assembling Building Blocks
• Listing Supported OS
• Listing Supported Databases
• Listing the Oracle GoldengGate Product Line
• Describing GUI Management Options
• Listing Non-Database Sources and Targets

Oracle GoldenGate Architecture

• Describing Oracle GoldenGate Process Groups

• Explaining Change Capture and Delivery (with and without a Data Pump)
• Explaining Initial Data Load
• Contrasting Batch and Online Operation
• Explaining Oracle GoldenGate Check pointing
• Describing Commit Sequence Numbers (CSN)
• Describing Oracle GoldenGate Files and Directories

Installing Oracle GoldenGate

• Listing System Requirements Performing Installation Configuring Environment Variables Using

GGSCI
• Running Oracle GoldenGate from the OS shell.

Configuration Overview and Preparing the Environment

• Reviewing Configuration Overview

• Configuring Manager Process
• Creating Source Definitions
• Preparing the Source Database
• Assigning Oracle Database Roles/Privileges Required
• Using DBMS_GOLDENGATE_AUTH Package

Configuring Change Capture (Extract)

• Reviewing Extract Overview

• Accessing Logs on Oracle ASM
• Accessing Logs Remotely

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• Configuring Extract Tasks (Classic & Integrated)

• Adding Extract Group
• Editing Extract Parameters
• Extracting Use of Archived Transaction Logs
• Adding Trails

Configuring Change Delivery (Replicat)

• Reviewing Replicat Overview

• Configuring Replicat Tasks (Classic & Integrated)
• Configuring a Sample Environment
• Configuring New Integrated Replicat

Day 2

Configuring Extract Trails and Files (Data Pump)

• Reviewing Extract Trails and Files Overview Describing Trail Formats

• Using Logdump for Viewing Trails Reversing the Trail Sequence Configuring and Using Data Pumps

Performing Initial Load

• Oracle GoldenGate Methods Listing Database-specific Methods Describing Resource Limitations

• Listing Advantages of Oracle GoldenGate Methods Configuring File Load Methods
• Configuring Direct Load Methods Handling Collisions with Initial Load

Editing Configuration Parameters

• Editing Parameter Files

• Contrasting GLOBALS versus Process Parameters Configuring GLOBALS Parameters
• Configuring Manager Parameters
• Configuring Extract Parameters
• Configuring Replicat Parameters

Filtering and Data Selection

• Filtering and Data Selection

• Mapping Columns Between Different Schemas Using Built-in "@" (at) Functions
• Using SQLEXEC to Interact Directly with a Database Configuring New Coordinated Replicat

Day 3

Additional Transformation Concepts

• Configuring and Using User Tokens
• Configuring and Using User Exits
Configuration Options
• Configuring and Using BATCHSQL
• Configuring and Using Compression
• Configuring and Using Encryption

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• Configuring and Using Event Actions

• Configuring New Wallet Security

Bidirectional Replication

• Reviewing Bidirectional Considerations

• Detecting Loops
• Avoiding Conflicts
• Configuring and Using Conflict Detection and Resolution
• Describing Identity Types Issues

DDL Replication

• Reviewing Data Description Language Replication Overview

• Configuring and Using Options for DDL Replication
• Configuring and Using String Substitution in DDL

Troubleshooting & Tuning

Day 4

Gathering Evidence

• GGSCI commands
• Viewing Checkpoint Details
• Evaluating a Process Report
• Evaluating a Log Sample
• Gather and evaluate systems logs
• SHOWSYNTAX overview, usage and output
• Logdump overview
• Utilizing the key commands and functionality of Logdump

Startup Problems

• GoldenGate configuration
• Operating system configuration
• Permissions
• Slow startup

Extraction Problems

• Diagnosing a slow Extract

• Solving the issue when Extract abends
• Solving the issue when the Data Pump Extract abends

Replication Problems

• Replicat is not moving or abends

• Replicat abends with Error 509
• Preventing Replicat from exiting

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Day 5

Missed Transaction Problems

• Transactions not being processed

• Including missed transactions

Mapping and Synchronization Problems

• Solve mapping problems such as missed definitions and column mappings

Synchronization issues such as out-of-sync rows, tables without keys, character sets,
• and DML on target tables

SQLEXEC Problems

• SQL does not execute

• Tracing SQLEXEC problems

File Maintenance Problems

• Discard file is not created

• Trail file too big or not being purged appropriately

Performance Tuning

• Building the object record for speeding

• Monitoring lag statistics
• Identifying bottlenecks such as lag, network issues, and disk reads
• Tuning Extract and Replicat for optimal performance

If time Permits: (Oracle GoldenGate Director & Oracle GoldenGate Veridata )

Practical:

Excise 1: Installation & Configuration GG on Linux

Excise 2: Performing an Initial Data Load Method
Excise 3: Performing an Online change Synchronization (CDC) – Without Datapump
Excise 4: Performing an Online change Synchronization through Data pump process
Excise 5: Performing Schema Replication through Datapump (DDL – Replication)
Excise 6: Performing a filtering using change capture.
Excise 7: Performing a table differ in column structure – Heterogeneous Method
Excise 8: Performing integrated Capture and Replicat setup (12c New Features)
Excise 9: Performing Online Change Synchronization with the initial data load – Handlecollisions
Excise 10: Performing - Tokens with COLMAP Clause
Excise 11: Performing converting Classic capture to an Integrated Capture (12c New Features)
Excise 12: Performing – Bidirectional Replication (resolving loop deduction)

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Excise 13: Create credential store (12c New Features)

Excise 14: Performing- Handling GoldenGate Exceptions and Errors with REPERROR
Excise 15: Performing - Increasing Performance by Splitting Replication Loads (Multiple
replicates)
Excise 16: Performing - Increasing Performance by Coordinated Applies (12c New Features)
Excise 17: Performing - GoldenGate Replication using Macros, User Tokens, Password
Encryption, Trail Encryption and SQLEXEC
Excise 18: Performing - Encryption Using Wallets (12c New Features)
Excise 19: Troubleshoot using logdump and showsyntax utility

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