Filtering a Trail File in GoldenGate Logdump Now that you have had a chance to read my blogs on GoldenGate Logdump and understanding how to browse around the trailfile we will start looking at some more advanced topics. As a review, use the following to invoke GoldenGate logdump. From the GoldenGate home directory run [...]
Introducing GoldenGate Monitor Edward Whalen - CTO I am proud to introduce the Performance Tuning Corporation GoldenGate Monitor program. For years I have been using shell scripts to monitor GoldenGate. While this provides some functionality, it is often difficult to implement and doesn’t provide all the features that you would desire. That is why [...]
Deploying a GoldenGate Hub with Timezone differences requires attention to detail. I ran into this problem several months ago where the timezone of the Server Farm was US Central Time and the timezone of the database being extracted from was in Pacific time. This issue is that whenever I would look at the Extract [...]
Monitoring GoldenGate is one of the most commonly overlooked components of real-time data integration. Running GoldenGate is frequently critical to an entities business operations. Identifying and responding to performance issues and outages can impact the bottom line of any organizations operations. How you handle errors will depend on what you are using GoldenGate [...]
As a quick review, the GoldenGate Hub Architecture is an architecture where GoldenGate extracts and replicats run; extracting from and replicating to other servers. The processing of GoldenGate is offloaded from the database servers. Only the database portion of GoldenGate processing is running on the database servers. Those of you who have been using [...]
Direct Path Reads Solution Explained: So, how do you solve the “ direct path reads ” problem (where the same data is being constantly re-read from disk)? There are a couple of suggestions. Put the table in question in the KEEP buffer cache. This is a two-step process. First allocate memory for the KEEP [...]
Using the GoldenGate Server Hub Architecture is almost identical to the local GoldenGate installation. The GoldenGate Hub extracts and replicats are configured using the TNS string that you would use to connect to the source and target databases. Qualify for a FREE GoldenGate Health Check Here! I prefer to use the GoldenGate credential store [...]
There are times when it is necessary to move Oracle DB audit trails to a new table space. Auditing is the monitoring and recording of selected user database actions. In standard auditing, you use initialization parameters and the AUDIT and NOAUDIT SQL statements to audit SQL statements, privileges, and schema objects, and network and [...]
Configuring the GoldenGate Hub is done in the same way you would configure GoldenGate in a stand-alone system, with the exception that only the Oracle Client pieces need be installed. Once the Oracle Client software has been installed on the GoldenGate Hub, install GoldenGate as you would normally. Point the Oracle Home location to [...]
The next few blogs will be related to the design, implantation and operation of the Oracle GoldenGate hub architecture. The Oracle GoldenGate hub architecture is where Oracle GoldenGate is installed and configured on a different server from the database server. This is not the same as downstream processing, since you are accessing the database [...]