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ORA-1555 won’t get reported into alert.log anymore since 19.4.0

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Behavior Change 8

Many thanks to a German customer for showing me this tiny behavior change with Oracle Database RU 19.4.0. From this RU on the well known ORA-1555 won’t get reported into alert.log anymore since 19.4.0. But if you still like to see the “snapshot too old” error, then you can use a workaround.

Why has this been changed?

Actually this is something I don’t understand completely. It may be just a side effect. Unpublished fix bug 29424999 – DUMP MINIMAL DIAGNOSTICS BY DEFAULT IN CASE OF ORA-01555 IN ADW/ATP ENV has been …

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How to speed up Multitenant CUSTOM database creation

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Single-/Multitenant 0

Why has the PDB$SEED such a strange setup?I usually create my container databases for testing with the CUSTOM option of DBCA. That allows me to specify exactly the components I’d like to have – or not. But I realized two things during the CUSTOM creation: It takes very long. And in the alert.log I see resize operations especially with the PDB$SEED during dictionary view creation. I see heap warnings. And recompilations. I did ask myself how to speed up Multitenant CUSTOM database creation.

Background Information

The PDB$SEED is the – I call it – “blueprint” pluggable database. It’s sole purpose is to allow you fast provisioning of …

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Alert.log: New timestamp format in Oracle 12.2

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Behavior Change Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 3

Timestamp Format Change

There’s an interesting change in the alert.log since Oracle Database 12.2.0.1: The format of the timestamps has changed.

If you compare the timestamps in Oracle 12.1 vs Oracle 12.2 you’ll recognize the change immediately:

Oracle 12.1 Oracle 12.2 
Wed Feb 08 15:39:29 2017
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode
Lost write protection disabled
Completed: ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT
Wed Feb 08 15:39:29 2017
ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Wed Feb 08 15:39:29 2017
Ping without log force is disabled.
Starting background process TMON


2017-05-29T14:09:17.064493+02:00
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode
Lost write protection disabled
Completed: ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT
2017-05-29T14:09:17.252853+02:00
ALTER DATABASE OPEN
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