Oracle Dba 11g New Features

11g New Features

1.ADR = Automatic Diagnostic Repository

*in 11g user_dump_dest,core_dump_dest,background_dump_dest are replace by diagnostic_dest
Sub-dirs under diagnostic_dest
Alert rdbms incidents
Alert log file in two format
Log.xml
--

Alert_<SID>.log

2.Adrci Utility - to see the content of alert log or incident details

$adrci
Adrci>show alert
Adrci>help
Adrci>show incident

Changes in SGA & PGA memory management

3.Memory related parameter
Memory_max_target (this is the upper limit for sga and pga combined)
Memory_target (this is the actual size of sga and pga combined)

4.In 11g by default password is case sensitive, to disable it set the following parameter to false
Sec_case_sensitive_logon=false;

5.To make a table read only/ read write

SQL>alter table emp read only;
SQL>alter table emp read write;

SQL>select table_name,read_only from user_tables where table_name='EMP';

6.Table compression
SQL>alter table emp compress for all operations;
SQL>alter table emp nocompress;
SQL>select table_name ,compression from user_tables where table_name=EMP;

7.Making index invisible/visible

SQL>alter index ind_emp invisible;
SQL>alter index ind_emp invisible;
SQL>select index_name,visibility from user_indexes where index_name=IND_EMP;
8.Shrinking temporary tablespace
SQL>alter tablespace temp shrink space keep 100m;

Pending and publish statistics

9.By default statistics is published immediately so we use dbms_stats package to change default
behaviour
SQL>exec dbms_stats.set_table_prefs('DEMO','SALES','PUBLISH','FALSE');
SQL> select dbms_stats.get_prefs('PUBLISH', 'DEMO', 'SALES' ) FROM DUAL;
SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS('DEMO','SALES');
SQL>SELECT LAST_ANALYZED FROM DBA_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME='SALES';

10.To see the pending stats

SQL> SELECT TABLE_NAME,PARTITION_NAME ,LAST_ANALYZED FROM

DBA_TAB_PENDING_STAT;

Then we have to test the stats

SQL> alter session set optimizer_use_pending_statistics=true;

Check that stats is working fine or not if working fine then publish;

SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.PUBLISH_PENDING_STATS ('DEMO','SALES');

SQL> SELECT LAST_ANALYZED FROM DBA_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME='SALES';
SQL> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM DBA_TAB_PENDING_STATS;
SQL> alter session set optimizer_use_pending_statistics=FALSE;

11.Flashback archive

Creatng Flashback Archive

SQL>create flashback archive flash_arc tablespace <tablespace_name> quota 1g Retention 1 year ;

SQL>alter table u1.emp flashback archive flash_arc;
Sql> flashback table emp to timestamp to_timestamp(16:12:10 02-NOV-2010 ,hh24:mi:ss dd-mon-yyyy);

12.Rman cloning

Rman cloning from active database

$rman target sys/manager@totarget nocatalog auxiliary sys/manager@totest

Rman> duplicate target database to test from active database;

13.Configuring physical standby from active backup

$rman target sys/manager@totarget nocatalog auxiliary sys/manager@tostdby

Rman>duplicate target database for standby from active database;

14.Converting physical standby to snapshot standby

1.configure FRA (flashback recovery area) at standby side

sql>alter database recover managed standby database disconnect;

sql>alter database recover managed standby database cancel;

sql>alter database convert to snapshot standby;

open the database

sql>select database_role from v$database;

15.Converting snapshot standby database back to physical standby

sql>startup mount

sql>alter database convert to physical standby;

sql>select database_role from v$database;

16.Parallel backup through section (chunks)

Rman>run

Allocate channel c1 device type disk;

Allocate channel c2 device type disk;

Allocate channel c3 device type disk;

Backup section size 500m datafile 10;

Rman> list backup of datafile 10;

Rman>list failure; (list block corruption and data failure)

Rman>list failure <id>

Rman>advise failure;

Rman >repair failure;

17.Faster backup compression using new algorithm ZLIB

Rman>CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'ZLIB';

18.Virtual catalog

prod (catalog db), target db > proda , prodb

At catalog side

create one more catalog user.

(prodb)

From any target db (ex. proda)

$rman target / catalog rman/rman@tocatalog

Rman>grant catalog for database prodb to prodb;

Rman > list db_unique_name all;

From prodb database

$rman target / catalog prodb/prodb@tocatalog;

Rman>create virtual catalog;

Rman > list db_unique_name all;

Now for prodb database backup information will be store in virtual catalog as well as
base catalog.

19.ASM related new features:

Asmcmd>lsdsk (shows the available no of disk)

For Diskgroup meta data backup

Asmcmd>md_backup b <file_name> -g <disk_group_name>

Restore diskgroup meta data

Asmcmd>md_restore b <file_name>