Oracle 11g taking High Availability to the next level

Gavin Soorma

Senior Oracle DBA,

HBOS Australia

An HA Wish List .
Recover Faster from media failure reduce unplanned downtime Reduce the cost of inevitable human error Reduce storage and network bandwidth associated with backups Reduce the risk and cost associated with change Perform as many tasks as possible online without planned outages

Ensure application stability for end users

And .save $$$$ for the business

What can Oracle 11g deliver?

Reduced backup durations compressed backups, incremental backups from Standby database Reduced recovery durations Data Recovery Advisor Proactive automatic database health monitoring Increased application availability through efficient SQL plan stability and optimizer plan management Real time testing with production data reduced cost as well as risk of deploying change Enhanced online application maintenance Flashback Transaction enhancements and more ..

Snapshot Standby
Updateable standby database created from Physical Standby
Physical Standby >> Snapshot Standby >> Test >>Physical Standby Snapshot Standby is open in read-write mode

Redo received from Primary but not applied

After converting back to Physical Standby, resynchronized with Primary by applying accumulated redo data Testing with real time production data on a ready made real time environment No need to perform production clones

Snapshot Standby
DGMGRL> show configuration Configuration Name: gavin Enabled: YES Protection Mode: MaxAvailability Databases: apex - Primary database apexdg - Physical standby database Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED Current status for "gavin": SUCCESS

Snapshot Standby
DGMGRL> convert database 'apexdg' to snapshot standby; Converting database "apexdg" to a Snapshot Standby database, please wait... Database "apexdg" converted successfully
DGMGRL> show configuration

Configuration Name: gavin Enabled: YES Protection Mode: MaxAvailability Databases: apex - Primary database apexdg - Snapshot standby database
Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED Current status for "gavin": SUCCESS

Snapshot Standby
apexdg:/u01/oracle/scripts> export ORACLE_SID=apex apex:/u01/oracle/scripts> sqlplus sh/SH SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 09:40:55 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> create table test_redo_apply 2 as select * from all_objects; Table created. SQL> select count(*) from test_redo_apply; COUNT(*) ---------56467

Snapshot Standby
apex:/u01/oracle/scripts> export ORACLE_SID=apexdg apexdg:/u01/oracle/scripts> sqlplus sh/SH SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 09:33:29 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> create table test_snapshot 2 as select * from all_objects; Table created. SQL> select count(*) from test_snapshot; COUNT(*) ---------56467

Snapshot Standby
DGMGRL>

convert database 'apexdg' to physical standby;

Converting database "apexdg" to a Physical Standby database, please wait... Operation requires shutdown of instance "apexdg" on database "apexdg" Shutting down instance "apexdg"... Database closed. Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. Operation requires startup of instance "apexdg" on database "apexdg" Starting instance "apexdg"... ORACLE instance started. Database mounted. Continuing to convert database "apexdg" ... Operation requires shutdown of instance "apexdg" on database "apexdg" Shutting down instance "apexdg"... ORA-01109: database not open Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. Operation requires startup of instance "apexdg" on database "apexdg" Starting instance "apexdg"... ORACLE instance started. Database mounted. Database "apexdg" converted successfully DGMGRL>

Snapshot Standby
apex:/u01/oracle/scripts> sqlplus sh/SH@apex SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 09:46:17 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.

All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select count(*) from test_snapshot; select count(*) from test_snapshot * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

Snapshot Standby
apexdg:/u01/oracle/scripts> dgmgrl DGMGRL for IBM/AIX RISC System/6000: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production Copyright (c) 2000, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Welcome to DGMGRL, type "help" for information. DGMGRL> connect sys/oracle Connected. DGMGRL> edit database 'apexdg' set state='apply-off'; Succeeded. DGMGRL> exit

Snapshot Standby
apexdg:/u01/oracle/scripts> sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 09:48:38 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> alter database open read only; Database altered. SQL> conn sh/SH@apexdg Connected. SQL> select count(*) from test_redo_apply; COUNT(*) ---------56467

Data Recovery Advisor

Decreases the amount of time required to recover from failure Automatically diagnoses data failures and provides alerts

Automatically assesses the extent and impact of the failure

Automatically suggests multiple repair options based on the environment and the extent of the assessed damage. Automates the repair process and verifies if the repair was successful.

Automatic Health Monitoring

Automatic Health Monitoring proactively detects problems early in their life-cycle and notifies the DBA of the user impact and recommended action to take Proactively checks the health of the database and identifies any issues before it impacts end users
Data Structure Integrity Check Data Block Integrity Check Redo Integrity Check Undo Segment Integrity Check Dictionary Integrity Check

Part of the 11g Support Workbench and can be run in reactive as well as manual mode

Data Recovery Advisor

apex:/u01/oracle/scripts> cd /u02/oradata/apex/ apex:/u02/oradata/apex> rm example01.dbf apex:/u02/oradata/apex> sqlplus sh/SH@apex

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 10:03:34 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> select count(*) from test_redo_apply; select count(*) from test_redo_apply * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01116: error in opening database file 6 ORA-01110: data file 6: '/u02/oradata/apex/example01.dbf' ORA-27041: unable to open file IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3

Data Recovery Advisor

apex:/u02/oradata/apex> rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 19 10:04:44 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. connected to target database: APEX (DBID=1312143933) RMAN> LIST FAILURE; using target database control file instead of recovery catalog List of Database Failures ========================= Failure ID Priority Status Time Detected Summary ---------- -------- --------- ------------- ------162 HIGH OPEN 19-SEP-08 One or more non-system datafiles are missing

Data Recovery Advisor

RMAN>

ADVISE FAILURE;

List of Database Failures ========================= Failure ID Priority Status Time Detected Summary ---------- -------- --------- ------------- ------162 HIGH OPEN 19-SEP-08 One or more non-system datafiles are missing analyzing automatic repair options; this may take some time allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: SID=107 device type=SBT_TAPE Mandatory Manual Actions ======================== no manual actions available Optional Manual Actions ======================= 1. If file /u02/oradata/apex/example01.dbf was unintentionally renamed or moved, restore it Automated Repair Options ======================== Option Repair Description ------ -----------------1 Restore and recover datafile 6 Strategy: The repair includes complete media recovery with no data loss Repair script: /u01/oracle/diag/rdbms/apex/apex/hm/reco_1541621723.hm

Data Recovery Advisor

RMAN> REPAIR FAILURE PREVIEW; Strategy: The repair includes complete media recovery with no data loss Repair script: /u01/oracle/diag/rdbms/apex/apex/hm/reco_1541621723.hm contents of repair script: # restore and recover datafile sql 'alter database datafile 6 offline'; restore datafile 6; recover datafile 6; sql 'alter database datafile 6 online

Data Recovery Advisor

RMAN>

REPAIR FAILURE NOPROMPT;

Strategy: The repair includes complete media recovery with no data loss Repair script: /u01/oracle/diag/rdbms/apex/apex/hm/reco_1541621723.hm ... ... sql statement: alter database datafile 6 offline Starting restore at 19-SEP-08 using channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 using channel ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting datafile backup set restore channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restoring datafile 00006 to /u02/oradata/apex/example01.dbf channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: reading from backup piece 76jqvhr1_1_1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: piece handle=76jqvhr1_1_1 tag=TAG20080919T090744 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restored backup piece 1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:01:05 Finished restore at 19-SEP-08 Starting recover at 19-SEP-08 using channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 using channel ORA_DISK_1

Data Recovery Advisor

starting media recovery channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting archived log restore to default destination channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restoring archived log archived log thread=1 sequence=59 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: reading from backup piece 77jqvi1r_1_1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: piece handle=77jqvi1r_1_1 tag=TAG20080919T091123 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restored backup piece 1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:07 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_59_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_60_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_61_664991234.log thread=1 ... ... archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_70_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_71_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_72_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_73_664991234.log thread=1 archived log file name=/u03/oradata/apex/arch/arch.1_74_664991234.log thread=1 media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:07 Finished recover at 19-SEP-08 sql statement: alter database datafile 6 online repair failure complete RMAN>

sequence=59 sequence=60 sequence=61

sequence=70 sequence=71 sequence=72 sequence=73 sequence=74

Automatic Health Monitoring

SQL> SELECT name FROM v$hm_check WHERE internal_check='N'; NAME ----------------------------------------------------------DB Structure Integrity Check Data Block Integrity Check Redo Integrity Check Transaction Integrity Check Undo Segment Integrity Check Dictionary Integrity Check 6 rows selected.

Automatic Health Monitoring

SQL> select run_id from RUN_ID ---------5988

V$HM_FINDING where TIME_DETECTED like '19-SEP%';

SQL> select name from v$hm_run where run_id=5988;

NAME -------------------------------HM_RUN_5988 SQL> select name,time_detected,description,damage_description from V$HM_FINDING 2 where run_id=5988;

NAME -------------------------------TIME_DETECTED --------------------------------------------------------------------------DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAMAGE_DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Missing datafile 19-SEP-08 10.10.14.474095 AM Datafile 6: '/u02/oradata/apex/example01.dbf' is missing Some objects in tablespace EXAMPLE might be unavailable

RMAN Enhancements
Network-enabled Database Duplication A clone database on a remote site can now be easily created directly over the network with the enhanced DUPLICATE command without existing backups. Reduces DBA time and effort and eliminates the storage capacity required at the remote site for the copy. Optimized Undo backup
Reduced overall backup time and storage by not backing up undo that applies to transactions that have already been committed.

Fast Incremental Backups on Physical Standby Database

RMAN can use the block change tracking file on Physical Standby database for incremental backups backups can be easily offloaded to standby sites to conserve primary host resources

Network-enabled Database Duplication

DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE TO dupdb

FROM ACTIVE DATABASE

DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT '/oracle/oradata/prod/','/scratch/oracle/oradata/dupdb/' SPFILE PARAMETER_VALUE_CONVERT '/oracle/oradata/prod/', '/scratch/oracle/oradata/dupdb/' SET SGA_MAX_SIZE '300M' SET SGA_TARGET '250M' SET LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT '/oracle/oradata/prod/redo/', '/scratch/oracle/oradata/dupdb/redo/';

RMAN Enhancements
Creation and Recovery of Long-Term Backups Improved Long-term backups created with the KEEP option only back up the archive logs needed to make the backup consistent. No further archive log backups are retained. Multisection Backups - Parallel Backup and Restore for Very Large Files Improves the performance of backups and restores of very large data files by parallelizing the workload for each file by dividing the data file into sub sections.

Fast Backup Compression

In addition to the Oracle Database 10g backup compression algorithm (BZIP2), RMAN now supports the ZLIB algorithm, which offers 40% better performance, with a trade-off of no more than 20% lower compression ratio, versus BZIP2.

Online Application Maintenance

DDL with the WAIT Option

DDL commands require exclusive locks on internal structures. Set via the WAIT option in the DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT initialization parameter. WAIT option gives you more flexibility to define grace periods for such commands to succeed instead of raising an error right away Enhanced ADD COLUMN Functionality Default values of columns are maintained in the data dictionary for columns specified as NOT NULL.

Adding new columns with DEFAULT values and NOT NULL constraint no longer requires the default value to be stored in all existing records.
Enables a schema modification in sub-seconds and independent of the existing data volume, it also consumes no space

Online Application Maintenance

SQL> ); 2 3 Table created. SQL>

CREATE TABLE lock_tab ( id NUMBER

INSERT INTO lock_tab VALUES (1);

1 row created.

**NOT COMMITED AT THIS STAGE**

SQL> ALTER TABLE lock_tab ADD (

description
); 2

VARCHAR2(50)

3 ALTER TABLE lock_tab ADD ( * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified or timeout expired

Online Application Maintenance

SQL> ALTER SESSION SET ddl_lock_timeout=30; Session altered. SQL> ALTER TABLE lock_tab ADD ( 2 description VARCHAR2(50) ); **NO ERROR THIS TIME SESSION WILL WAIT ...** SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> ALTER TABLE lock_tab ADD ( 2 description VARCHAR2(50) 3 ); Table altered.

Online Application Maintenance

crashdb:/u01/oracle> sql SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Oct 2 10:06:53 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning and Data Mining options SQL> 2

create table myobjects as select * from dba_objects;

Table created. SQL>

select count(*) from myobjects;

COUNT(*) ---------101580

SQL>
SQL> 2

set timing on alter table myobjects add (new_column varchar2(3) default 'YES' not null);

Table altered.

Elapsed: 00:00:31.68

Online Application Maintenance

apex:/u01/oracle>

sql

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Oct 2 10:14:09 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL>

select count(*) from myobjects;

COUNT(*) ---------142676 SQL> SQL> 2

set timing on alter table myobjects add (new_column varchar2(3) default 'YES' not null);

Table altered. Elapsed:

00:00:00.93

Fine Grained Dependency Management

Finer Grained Dependencies

Pre11g, metadata recorded mutual dependencies between objects with the granularity of the whole object This means that dependent objects were sometimes invalidated when there was no logical requirement to do so. View V1 depends on Table T1 Columns C1 and C2. if Column c3 is added, V1 will get invalidated. Oracle Database 11g records dependency metatdata at a finer level of granularity reducing the consequential invalidation of dependent objects in response to changes in the objects they depend upon Results in increased application availability

Fine Grained Dependency Management

crashdb:/u01/oracle> sql SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Oct 2 12:15:09 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning and Data Mining options

SQL> create table test_dependency 2 (col_a varchar2(10), col_b varchar2(10)); Table created. SQL> create view test_dependency_vw 2 as select col_a from test_dependency; View created. SQL> alter table test_dependency add (col_c varchar2(10)); Table altered. SQL> select status from user_objects where object_name='TEST_DEPENDENCY_VW'; STATUS ------INVALID

Fine Grained Dependency Management

apex:/u01/oracle/scripts> sql SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Oct 2 12:22:19 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> create table test_dependency 2 (col_a varchar2(10), col_b varchar2(10)); Table created. SQL> create view test_dependency_vw 2 as select col_a from test_dependency; View created. SQL> alter table test_dependency add (col_c varchar2(10)); Table altered. SQL> select status from user_objects where object_name='TEST_DEPENDENCY_VW'; STATUS ------VALID

Flashback Enhancements

Block Recovery can now be performed from the Flashback Logs on disk.
Reduces recovery time by potentially eliminating time consuming restores from tape to repair a few corrupt blocks. Information Life Cycle management using Flashback Data Archives Guaranteed retention of historical and archived data No need to rely on UNDO tablespace data retention policies Flashback Data archive stored in a tablespace and contains transactional changes to every record in a table Flashback Transaction can easily back out a transaction and its dependent transactions. DBMS_FLASHBACK.TRANSACTION_BACKOUT() procedure rolls back a transaction and its dependent transactions while the database remains online.

Flashback Transaction - Backout

SQL> INSERT INTO hr.regions VALUES (10,'Pole'); 1 row created. SQL> INSERT INTO hr.regions VALUES (20,'Moon'); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> UPDATE hr.regions SET region_name='Two Poles' 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE hr.regions SET region_name='Two Moons' WHERE region_id=20; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete. WHERE region_id = 10;

Flashback Transaction - Backout

SQL> UPDATE hr.regions SET region_name='Three Poles' WHERE region_id = 10; 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE hr.regions SET region_name='Three Moons' WHERE region_id=20; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select * from regions; REGION_ID ---------1 2 3 4 10 20 REGION_NAME ------------------------Europe Americas Asia Middle East and Africa Three Poles Three Moons

6 rows selected.

Flashback Transaction - Backout

SQL> select xid,operation from flashback_transaction_query 2 where table_name='REGIONS' 3 and trunc(start_timestamp)='02-OCT-2008'; XID ---------------0009001B000024EE 000A000200001C9F 000A000200001C9F OPERATION -------------------------------INSERT UPDATE UPDATE

SQL> BEGIN DBMS_FLASHBACK.transaction_backout (numtxns xids options END; / 2 3 4 5 6 BEGIN * ERROR at line 1: ORA-55504: Transaction conflicts in NOCASCADE ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_FLASHBACK", line 37 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_FLASHBACK", line 70 ORA-06512: at line 2

=> 1, => xid_array('0009001B000024EE'), => DBMS_FLASHBACK.nocascade);

mode

Flashback Transaction - Backout

SQL> BEGIN DBMS_FLASHBACK.transaction_backout (numtxns => 1, xids => xid_array('0009001B000024EE'), options => DBMS_FLASHBACK.cascade); end; / PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> select COMPENSATING_XID,DEPENDENT_XID,BACKOUT_MODE 2 FROM dba_flashback_txn_state 3 WHERE xid = '0009001B000024EE'; COMPENSATING_XID DEPENDENT_XID BACKOUT_MODE ---------------- ---------------- ---------------000A000200001CA2 0004001D00001D21 CASCADE SQL> select * from hr.regions; REGION_ID ---------1 2 3 4 REGION_NAME ------------------------Europe Americas Asia Middle East and Africa

Flashback Data Archive Total Recall

SQL> create tablespace archive_data 2 datafile '/u02/oradata/apex/archive_data01.dbf' size 1024m;
Tablespace created. SQL> create flashback archive year1 tablespace archive_data 2 quota 500m retention 1 year; Flashback archive created. SQL> grant flashback archive on year1 to HR; Grant succeeded. SQL> conn HR/HR Connected. SQL> alter table regions flashback archive year1; Table altered.

Flashback Data Archive Total Recall

SQL> conn / as sysdba Connected.
SQL> SELECT table_name, owner_name, flashback_archive_name, archive_table_name FROM dba_flashback_archive_tables; TABLE_NAME OWNER_NAME FLASHBACK_ARCHIVE_NA ARCHIVE_TABLE_NAME --------------- --------------- -------------------- -------------------REGIONS HR YEAR1 SYS_FBA_HIST_79593 SQL> SELECT flashback_archive_name, retention_in_days FROM dba_flashback_archive; FLASHBACK_ARCHIVE_NA RETENTION_IN_DAYS -------------------- ----------------YEAR1 365

SQL Plan Management

Overcomes limitations with Stored Outlines (8i) and SQL Profiles (10g) Guarantees plan stability by ensuring only accepted execution plans are ever used by the CBO Once plans are accepted and evolved, all subsequent executions of the same SQL statement will always use that plan unless a new plan with a lower cost is made available by the CBO SMB SQL Management Base stores SQL text, its outline, bind variables in SYSAUX tablespace. OPTIMIZER_CAPTURE_SQL_PLAN_BASELINES OPTIMIZER_USE_SQL_PLAN_BASELINES

Gathering and Publishing Statistics

Pre 11g,the statistics were automatically published once the gather was completed. New statistics can invalidate plans and can result in new (inefficient) execution paths. In 11g test the statistics before publishing them and ensure only acceptable plans are used by the Optimizer Gather Statistics >> Pending Statistics >> Published Statistics Ensure plan stability and increased application availability

ASM Fast Mirror Resync

Pre 11g, temporary transient failures (cable disconnect) will cause disk to be dropped from disk group straight away.
ASM would rebalance the disk group after dropping the disk rebalance again after adding disk once problem is rectified Rebalancing operations increases I/O significantly. ASM attribute disk_repair_time now provides a window for repair disk is dropped if this window expires default 3.6 hours After disk is online, only extents that have been marked as modified need to be rebalanced after failed disk joins disk group.

Once the disk is available, only the changed extents are written to resynchronize the disk, rather than overwriting the contents of the entire disk

ALTER DISKGROUP dgroupA SET ATTRIBUTE DISK_REPAIR_TIME=3H;

ASM Metadata Backup and Restore

Pre Oracle 11g no backup of ASM meta data
If disk group is lost, restore lost files via RMAN, but manually recreate ASM disk group as well as user directories/templates 11g ASMCMD includes ASM metadata backup and restore

Parses ASM fixed tables and views to get information on disk and failure group configuration, templates and alias directory structure
ASMCMD> md_backup b asm_metadata g data ASMCMD> md_restore b asm_metadata t full g data

Miscellaneous
Online Patching ASM Rolling Upgrade from 10g R2 to 11g

Online redefinition of tables with MVs and MV Logs

ADRCI and Incident Packaging Service Rebuild indexes online without any exclusive lock at the beginning and end of the operation

SQL Repair Advisor repair SQL statements causing ORA-600s by providing a customised SQL patch after recompiling and reexecuting SQL statement

Thanks for attending!!

GAVIN SOORMA Senior Oracle DBA Specialist HBOS Australia
Contact me at : 0417713124 or gavin.soorma@hbosa.com.au

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