Category: Oracle Database General

Oracle Database General

Jun 30

Oracle 12c – ORA-01035: ORACLE only available to users with RESTRICTED SESSION privilege

Those days, while adding a new PDB to my Oracle 12c database (PSU 12.1.0.2.3), I got the following error in my dbca: [Thread-50] [ 2015-06-30 16:50:36.315 BRT ] [BasicStep.handleNonIgnorableError:480] ORA-01035: ORACLE only available to users with RESTRICTED SESSION privilege There is an Oracle Support Document 17182200.8 (Bug 17182200 – SET CONTAINER reports ORA-1035 even with restricted …

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Apr 06

DBCA failing with “oracle.net.TNSAddress.Description.toString(Unknown Source)”

During some days, when I was testing and creating the integration of my Oracle Databases with OUD 11.1.2.2.0  (OUD-EUS integration), I received the error below: In the trace file generated by dbca inside “cfgtoollogs/dbca” folder, I could find: java.lang.NullPointerException at oracle.net.TNSAddress.Description.toString(Unknown Source) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2615) at java.util.AbstractCollection.toString(AbstractCollection.java:454) at java.util.Vector.toString(Vector.java:946) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2615) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:116) at oracle.sysman.assistants.util.NetworkUtils.registerDBWithDirSrvc(NetworkUtils.java:1917) at oracle.sysman.assistants.util.NetworkUtils.registerDBWithDirSrvc(NetworkUtils.java:1833) at oracle.sysman.assistants.util.step.network.DirServiceStep.executeImpl(DirServiceStep.java:248) …

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Mar 03

IMPDP failing with ORA-39083 and ORA-14024

Sometimes, when your EXPDP takes so long (probably because you have huge partitioned tables), when you try to IMPDP somewhere later you may receive the error: ORA-39083: Object type INDEX failed to create with error: ORA-14024: number of partitions of LOCAL index must equal that of the underlying table This usually happens because the export of …

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Mar 02

IMPDP failing with ORA-31625 and ORA-01031: insufficient privileges with Database Vault

Those days, I was having a lot of errors during my Import Datapump session in a Oracle 11g with Database Vault environment. As the schema was protected, first I did the overall check up making sure the user I was using to import had the DBA permission and I also gave it full access to …

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Feb 28

How to delete the incarnations of an Oracle Database

In this article, I will talk about database incarnation and how to clean the old and obsoletes ones. It’s not intended to show you how to clean the incarnations on the recovery catalog, but from the database itself! Let’s start. Sometimes, after performing several database recoveries or “open resetlogs”, you can end up with so …

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