September 2014 archive

ORA-01917 "RECOVERY_CATALOG_USER" error while upgrading RMAN catalog

These days, I needed to register a new database that was running at 12c on my RMAN catalog. The procedure that I tried was the same as I had done before hundreds of times with DBs in all versions. When I connected, RMAN complained that the version of the catalog was outdated, as expected: [oracle@brocbddtrj001 …

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