The Oracle RMAN backup encryption is necessary if you want to backup your database into the Oracle cloud. In Oracle 12c, you have three methods available to encrypt an Oracle RMAN backup: with a passphrase with a master encryption key hybrid with a passphrase and an encryption key On docs.oracle.com, the basic setup is described here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/db-backup-cloud/csdbb/configuring-encryption-backups.html#GUID-4A1F5CF5-7EAF-4D71-9B7F-B46412F552CE In this blog post, I show you how to configure your database environment with a master encryption key and a keystore. I use this solution to to backup and recovery to and into the Oracle cloud. And in the cloud, I don’t like to type in passwords manually for every action or write passwords in backup and restore scripts. There are also some…
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Install and Configure Oracle Application Express with Oracle REST Data Services and Apache Tomcat
In this article I will show you how you can install and configure Oracle Application Express (APEX) and the Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS), which is running on an Apache Tomcat application server. In previous installations I used the Oracle HTTP server and the extenstion mod_plsq. But this does not work anymore with the newest Oracle HTTP server version. In the Oracle Application Express Installation Guide is written: mod_plsql is deprecated as of Oracle HTTP Server 12c (12.1.3). For more information, please see My Oracle Support Note 1576588.1. Oracle recommends using Oracle REST Data Services instead. Oracle REST Data Service is the future – so let’s go to the future. Installation Steps Installation and Configuration Oracle Application Express 5.1.1 Installation and…
Read MoreDATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117 apply fails – catconInit failed, exiting
Last weekend was patchday. The goal was to apply the patch 24732082 (DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117) to a 12.1.0.2 database on AIX. The OPatch precheck returned no error and OPatch apply was ok. The problem was the post step, the datapatch command failed with the message catconInit failed, exiting. oracle@srvaix101:/u00/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/OPatch/ [STRSP01] ./datapatch -verbose SQL Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Sun Apr 2 08:39:35 2017 Copyright (c) 2012, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved. Log file for this invocation: /u00/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_45548440_2017_04_02_08_39_35/sqlpatch_invocati on.log Connecting to database…OK catconInit failed, exiting Please refer to MOS Note 1609718.1 and/or the invocation log /u00/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_45548440_2017_04_02_08_39_35/sqlpatch_invocation.log for information on how to resolve the above errors. SQL Patching tool complete on Sun Apr 2 08:39:36 2017 The solution was…
Read MoreOracle Data Pump with the 12.2.0.1.0 Instant Client for Linux x86-64
From the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) New Features Guide: Adding Oracle Data Pump and SQL*Loader Utilities to Instant Client This feature adds SQL*Loader, expdp, impdp, exp, and imp to the tools for instant client. Now you can run these utilities on machines that do not have a complete Oracle Database installation. The newest release of the Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86-64 has an additional package called Tools. This package contains Data Pump, SQL*Loader and the Workload Replay Client for Real Aplication Testing. The good old import export tools is included too. This is very nice. For example, if you want to load application log files with SQL*Loader into the database which are located on a separate server,…
Read MoreEnterprise Manager 13cR2 – How to apply Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719
My fresh EM13cR2 installation showed me that there is a patch for the Weblogic environment available. This patch was released in July 2016: Patch Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719. This patchset has included 157 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is marked in My Oracle Support as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13cR2 server. This blog post describes the apply of the Weblogic patch set update in an Enterprise Manager 13cR2 environment running on a Oracle Linux server. Prepare Patch Set Update on EM13c Server The patch file has to be extracted. I have copied to file to my EM13cR2…
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