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Shakespeare

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Aug 23, 2008, 3:19:36 PM8/23/08
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I have a client using 10.2.0.4 64 bit on AIX.
After an upgrade from 9 to 10, his database went (after running for about 15
hours) into quiesce mode without anyone specifically performing such an
action. (Unfortunately, no more specific data available right now; only
thing he noticed in the alert log was a log writer switch on redo01.log when
this happened).
After a while, his db went unquiesce again. I searched docs, metalink,
Google but did not find a clue why a DB would do this all by itself.
A) Is this possible anyway?
B) What could cause this?

Thanks,

Shakespeare

Mladen Gogala

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Aug 24, 2008, 10:21:24 AM8/24/08
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Something like that should be recorded in the alert log. Posting the
relevant information from the alert log would certainly help people on
this group during the diagnostic process.

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louis....@ggzdrenthe.nl

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Aug 25, 2008, 6:07:39 AM8/25/08
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Hallo Shakespeare,

We have the same problem, last week we have upgraded to 10.2.0.4 on
AIX 5.2 64 bit.
And at the moment we have already 2 times a quiesce mode.
In the alert log is written:
Mon Aug 25 11:21:09 2008
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 3080 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 0: /oradata/xmcp/redo03.log
Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 1: /oradata/xmcp/redo03b.log
Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 2: /oradata/xmcp/redo03c.log
Mon Aug 25 11:44:11 2008
Database in quiesce mode
Mon Aug 25 11:48:39 2008
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 3081 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 0: /oradata/xmcp/redo02.log
Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 1: /oradata/xmcp/redo02b.log
Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 2: /oradata/xmcp/redo02c.log
Mon Aug 25 11:50:29 2008
Database out of quiesce mode

LouisDBA.

Shakespeare

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Aug 25, 2008, 6:17:10 AM8/25/08
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<louis....@ggzdrenthe.nl> schreef in bericht
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Hello Louis,

this looks EXACTLY like our problem! We'll investigate this, and will report
here!

Shakespeare


Shakespeare

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Aug 25, 2008, 6:25:58 AM8/25/08
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This is the part of the alert log:

> Mon Aug 25 11:21:09 2008
> Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 3080 (LGWR switch)
> Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 0: /oradata/xmcp/redo03.log
> Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 1: /oradata/xmcp/redo03b.log
> Current log# 3 seq# 3080 mem# 2: /oradata/xmcp/redo03c.log
> Mon Aug 25 11:44:11 2008
> Database in quiesce mode
> Mon Aug 25 11:48:39 2008
> Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 3081 (LGWR switch)
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 0: /oradata/xmcp/redo02.log
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 1: /oradata/xmcp/redo02b.log
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 2: /oradata/xmcp/redo02c.log
> Mon Aug 25 11:50:29 2008
> Database out of quiesce mode

Thanks,
Shakespeare


Mladen Gogala

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Aug 25, 2008, 6:29:35 AM8/25/08
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louis....@ggzdrenthe.nl wrote:

> Mon Aug 25 11:44:11 2008
> Database in quiesce mode
> Mon Aug 25 11:48:39 2008
> Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 3081 (LGWR switch)
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 0: /oradata/xmcp/redo02.log
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 1: /oradata/xmcp/redo02b.log
> Current log# 2 seq# 3081 mem# 2: /oradata/xmcp/redo02c.log
> Mon Aug 25 11:50:29 2008
> Database out of quiesce mode
>

Have the other occurrences happened at the roughly same time? If so, there
might be a batch job doing that. Quiesce mode is useful when doing BCV
split. Do you have anything like that?

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joel garry

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Aug 25, 2008, 1:58:59 PM8/25/08
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On Aug 25, 3:25 am, "Shakespeare" <what...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> "Mladen Gogala" <mgog...@yahoo.com> schreef in berichtnews:48b16e63$0$15596$834e...@reader.greatnowhere.com...

Wondering if Note:559298.1 is a clue - perhaps something is obscurely
associated with quiescing. The timing looks very suspicious to me.

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Palooka

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Aug 25, 2008, 3:24:58 PM8/25/08
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joel garry wrote:
> The timing looks very suspicious to me.
Indeed. Clearly it is the same alert log.

Palooka

Shakespeare

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Aug 26, 2008, 1:40:05 AM8/26/08
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It IS the same. Both me and my client DBA posted on this group...;-) without
noticing we were both posting the same issue.....

Shakespeare


Shakespeare

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============================================
I'll check the note!

Shakespeare


Mladen Gogala

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Aug 27, 2008, 7:07:24 AM8/27/08
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:50:42 +0200, Shakespeare wrote:

> "joel garry" <joel-...@home.com> schreef in bericht

> news:15ab9b7b-d291-4120-a15c-
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>> Shakeespeare


>
> Wondering if Note:559298.1 is a clue - perhaps something is obscurely
> associated with quiescing. The timing looks very suspicious to me.


However, you should audit the "alter database" privilege to see what
executes it and when.
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Shakespeare

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Aug 27, 2008, 1:52:15 PM8/27/08
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Good tip! It has not occured since last Monday, but it won't hurt to audit !

Shakespeare


Shakespeare

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Sep 3, 2008, 10:39:33 AM9/3/08
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On 23 aug, 21:19, "Shakespeare" <what...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

It appears one of the DBA's was installing Enterprise Manager using
EMCA. This puts the database in quiesce mode....

Shakespeare

Mladen Gogala

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Sep 3, 2008, 11:24:15 AM9/3/08
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:39:33 -0700, Shakespeare wrote:

> It appears one of the DBA's was installing Enterprise Manager using
> EMCA. This puts the database in quiesce mode....

That is what the capital punishment was invented for.

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Shakespeare

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Sep 3, 2008, 2:54:44 PM9/3/08
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Yes... another case of "We did nothing and still something changed...."

Shakespeare


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