Grid patching was failing with Failed to bring down CRS servic(Clean of 'ora.gipcd' on 'host' failed)

We were trying to patch out GI home with Oct 2020 PSU, but the patch was not proceeding and every time it failed , when it was trying to bring the CRS down Executing patch […]

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Today while performing logical import of data(impdp) , I faced this unique error , which was failing to create index on the imported tables column’s. The whole errors looks like below Failing sql is: CREATE […]

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I was trying to open alert log for one of the issue happening in the database , was unable to open the alert log . The opening of file failing with ex: 0602-101 Out of […]

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I was trying to add some node in our existing 6 node clusters, out ./cluvfy stage -pre crsinst was failing because of NTP sync error . [grid@exa01 bin]$ ./cluvfy stage -pre crsinst -n exa05 -verbose […]

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I was trying to apply the InfiniBand switch patch(October 2020 19.3.13.0.0.201022 ) to our exadata x5-2 box but it was failing with error saying upgradeIBSwitch.sh: No such file or directory root@exa01 patch_19.3.13.0.0.201022]# ./patchmgr -ibswitches ib_group […]

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You can now provision an Exadata Cloud Service instance using the flexible X8M shape. This shape allows you to expand your system after provisioning, as your databases grow and you need more storage servers, compute […]

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In this article , I am going to explain how to increase the default 20g size of /u01 partition on Exadata x7 machine to sufficient size depending upon your requirement. For this , we need […]

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In part 1http://parwezexa.com/create-sql-profile-and-move-sql-profile-from-one-database-to-anotherpart-1/ , we have created a sql profile and demonstrated how the query was taking the effective plan path after using the sql profile . In this part we will create a staging […]

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SQL Profile is a collection of information stored in the data dictionary that enables the query optimizer to create an optimal execution plan for a SQL statement.The SQL profile contains corrections for poor optimizer estimates […]

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I am writing this article regrading one issue I encountered while upgrading the grid home 12c to 18c in ExaCC gen 1 cloud. The patch pre check was failing saying “ERROR: Patch num not specified […]

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