I was performing a spot health check in a client environment, when I encountered this: [[email protected] ~]$ crsctl query crs releaseversion Oracle High Availability Services release version on the local node is [12.1.0.2.0] [[email protected] ~]$ crsctl query crs activeversion -f Oracle…
Read More >Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite) customers have always been left a little behind by technological innovations happening at Oracle. Since 18c, Oracle Database has offered a new feature called Read-Only Oracle home (OH). However I haven’t noticed much traction for this…
Read More >This will be a short entry, but hopefully, it will help if you face the error “ORA-01722: invalid number” while doing an upgrade. Today I was doing an Oracle RDBMS upgrade from 12.2 with DST 34, to 19.7 with DST…
Read More >I recently came across a very unusual situation. During an upgraded review, I noticed the dba_registry_sqlpatch was empty when it shouldn’t be: SQL> select patch_id, patch_uid, version, action, action_time, status, description from dba_registry_sqlpatch; no rows selected SQL> The expected output…
Read More >Unfortunately is it not all that unusual for a patch or upgrade to Oracle Grid or RAC to fail, requiring a rollback. Frequently when that is necessary, the rollback actions then also fail. The reason for the rollback failure is…
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