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RMAN Catalog Upgrade fails – ORA-02296 – error creating modify_ts_pdbinc_key_not_null

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Flaws and Pitfalls RMAN 4

This issue got raised to my via a customer I know for quite a while – all credits go to Andy Kielhorn for digging down into that issue and solving it.

Failed RMAN Catalog Upgrade from 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2

The RMAN catalog upgrade:

SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/dbmsrmansys.sql

$ rman CATALOG rman/xxx@rman01

RMAN> UPGRADE CATALOG; 

RMAN> UPGRADE CATALOG;

failed with the following sequence of error messages:

error creating modify_ts_pdbinc_key_not_null
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-02296: cannot enable (RMAN.) - null values found

error creating modify_tsatt_pdbinc_key_not_null
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR
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RMAN Catalog requires Enterprise Edition (EE)
since Oracle Database 12.1.0.2

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Flaws and Pitfalls RMAN 26

Credits go to Cameron Hodge, Malcom and Martin Mäs who all highlighted issues to me following my previous entry about RMAN – and sorry for any disappointment but I wasn’t aware of all these nice little things.

Ok, you’d upgrade your RMAN Catalog to be ready to backup/recover Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 databases and you see this error:

RMAN>
upgrade catalog;
error creating create_deleted_object_seq
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database:
ORA-00439:  feature not enabled: Partitioning

Now you start to wonder as your Catalog Database had been an Oracle Standard …

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RMAN Catalog Upgrade to Oracle 12.1.0.2

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Flaws and Pitfalls RMAN 15

It sounds so simple – but in this specific case a bit of doc reading is required as upgrading the RMAN catalog to handle Oracle 12.1.0.2 databases is not as trivial as in the past.

Thanks to a German customer and a friendly colleague from Sales Consulting in Stuttgart I have learned my RMAN lesson for Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 this week. A simple “upgrade catalog” is not the correct step once you’d like to handle backups of Oracle 12.1.0.2 databases in your current catalog schema. 

Even though you may not have ever heard before about Virtual Private …

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