Minimalistic Oracle

Minimalistic Oracle contains a collection of practical examples from my encounters with Oracle technologies. When relevant, I also write about other technologies, like Linux or PostgreSQL. Many of the posts starts with "how to" since they derive directly from my own personal experience. My goal is to provide simple examples, so that they can be easily adapted to other situations.

Friday, April 21, 2023

How to get verbose output in a call to mailx

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Use the -vvv flag to debug your call to mailx: root # echo "Test message" | mailx -S smtp="smtp.oric.no" -vvv -s ...
Monday, April 17, 2023

How to deinstall Oracle 19c database software

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If you are deinstalling Oracle on a Linux RHEL 8, set the variable CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OL7 to avoid the error outlined in Doc ID 2738856.1: e...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Workaround for message "Make sure that xdpyinfo exist under PATH variable" when launching OUI

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Error: oracle@myserver :[cdb]# ./runInstaller -createGoldImage -destinationLocation /stage/oracle/images ERROR: Unable to verify the grap...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Getting ORA-01722 when running adstats.sql after an EBS database upgrade to 19c

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An old error from 2015 surfaced today , when we were trying to upgrade a 12.1 EBS database to 19c. The problem occured during the running...
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

How to identified active files/executables when using opatch to deinstall software

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During a opatch rollback operation, we saw the following error message in the opatch logfile: [Feb 19, 2023 2:29:51 PM] [INFO] Prerequi...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

How to prevent sed to destroy your symlinks

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Because of EBS, we have a subdirectory in our $TNS_ADMIN which has the following name PDB1_test1.oric.no In other words, the files listen...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Error fetching the value from a shell script executed by root, when doing "su - oracle"

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Problem: Inside a new bash shell session, executed as user "oracle", like this: su - oracle <<! instructions here ! I ...
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Name: Vegard Kåsa
My career as an Oracle DBA startet in 2001, when I acceptet a request to take on the responsibility as my current employer's DBA. From that point and onwards, managing Oracle databases has kept me busy and engaged. I enjoy my work, and particulary appreciate the constant learning and devlopment that comes with the job. From 2014, I am self-employed through my company Oric Consulting AS (Norway), and from 2024 Oric Consulting AB (Sweden) I currently live in Göteborg, Sweden, with my family.
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