12cR2

Resource manager session_pga_limit has it’s own limits

Recently we hit an issue with a complex SQL statement (formatted was 44,000 lines, maybe subject of a separate blog post), causing the CBO to struggle consuming large amounts of PGA memory, and the host to start swapping memory and impacting other database users. The pga_aggregate_limit parameter did not appear to be kicking in (maybe …

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Do you come here often? 12.2 change in behavior for DBA_USERS.LAST_LOGIN with Proxy Authentication

The behavior of the LAST_LOGIN field on DBA_USERS has changed with respect to proxy authentication (for the better I think). Proxy authentication is an feature of the Oracle Database that effective allows you to be connected as one user (the client user to use Oracle’s terminology), but using the credentials of another user (the proxy …

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Problems with Kerberos Credentials to 12.2 Databases in Enterprise Manger

Just a quick note in case anyone else hits this issue. We use make extensive use of Kerberos to give us Windows single-sign on. For database connections via Enterprise Manger we use “Database Kerberos Credentials” credential type and have no problems connecting to 11.2 and 12.1 databases (apart from slight pain points that it’s not …

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12.2 controlfile backup never gets marked as obsolete

I’ve blogged about this bug in passing, but I thought would be worthwhile to document my testcase.    Basically backups of controlfiles never get marked as obsolete. The issue reproduces for both image copies and backupsets, my test-case uses the latter for simplicity. RMAN> show all; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name PVJTEST are: CONFIGURE …

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“ORA-20110: set stamp set count conflict” after upgrading to 12.2 Recovery Catalog

This is the second time we have hit this error after upgrading the recovery catalog to 12.2. The first is now documented by Oracle as Document 2291791.1, and affects 12.1 multi-tenant instances with DBBP 12.1.0.2.161018 or later applied. If you have applied that patchset, you can see the problem by checking the contents of file …

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