GUOB TECHDAY 2016

The year passed very fast and GUOB TechDay 2016 is now closer than it looks! And for those who do not know, this is one of the major Oracle users event in Brazil. It takes place annually in São Paulo, on a July or August Saturday. Unlike the OOW, which is a more commercial and …

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SQLcl not connecting as sysdba

SQLcl is the modern SQL Plus. It was developed my the same team who created the SQL Developer and is java based, with a lot of features that SQL Plus was lacking for years. One problem that I was having after a fresh installation was some error when trying to connect as sysdba: [oracle@myserver ~:orcl]$ …

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EM agent start fails With ‘Target Interaction Manager failed at Startup’ and ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space’ reported on logs

In this article, I will show how to solve EM Agent failing to startup related to java memory problems. Those days, after applying some EM Agent patches and trying to restart them, I received the error below: [emc12@localhost ~]$ emctl start agent Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 5 Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. …

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“ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete” but diskgroup is mounted

Those days, I was creating a new database on a system and when I tried to create any file (spfile / pwfile / control file) on diskgroup, I started receiving the error below: ORA-15001: diskgroup “DATA” does not exist or is not mounted ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete Usually this error comes together with something like …

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libasmclntsh12.so missing after OPatch failed in Oracle 12c

Those days, I was trying to apply the latest Oracle Grid Infrastructure PSU over my 12.1.0.2 Clusterware. During the apply phase, the OPatch failed because the gcc was not available for execution. Actually, someone gave chmod 700 to /usr/bin/gcc for protection. /grid/app/grid/product/12.1.0/grid/bin/orald: line 31: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied /grid/app/grid/product/12.1.0/grid/bin/orald: line 31: exec: /usr/bin/gcc: cannot execute: Permission denied make[2]: …

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