Silent Upgrade Oracle GoldenGate 12.1.2.0.0 to 12.1.2.1.2

Today I worked on silent upgrade of Oracle GoldenGate from 12.1.2.0.0 to 12.1.2.1.2, so thought to blog it which might help some of you. These are the steps I performed Current GoldenGate Home --> /oracle/app/product/ogg12.1.2 1. Gather the details of GoldenGate Processes before stopping them GGSCI> INFO EXTRACT EXTL, SHOWCH INFO EXTRACT DPUMP, SHOWCH GGSCI> …

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UPGRADE CHECKPOINTTABLE – Goldengate

We have a goldengate setup wherein 3 different GoldenGate clients connects and replicat to one target database.Below are the versions being currently used 11.1.1.1, 11.2.1.0.0 and 11.2.1.0.3. The version 11.2.1.0.3 was recently added, and below are the steps performed GGSCI (myhost) 2> obey ./dirprm/add_rep.oby GGSCI (myhost) 3> GGSCI (myhost) 3> DBLOGIN USERID ggate@test PASSWORD 'xxxxxxxx' …

ORA-26723: user “XXXXX” requires the role “DV_GOLDENGATE_REDO_ACCESS”

While starting the extract on UAT DB env which had been recently moved to exadata we got the below error.As we had redo and archive logfiles on ASM, we used "TRANLOGOPTIONS DBLOGREADER" in extract parameter file. 2012-10-24 22:35:48 ERROR OGG-00446 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, emos_cc.prm: Opening ASM file +RECO_UMO1/archivelog/2012_10_24/thread_1_seq_224.955.797517005 in DBLOGREADER mode: (26723) ORA-26723: …

Extract keeps ABENDING – No valid archive log dest for Thread N – OGG

Recently we refreshed one of the 2-node UAT database from 3-node production.The 2-node UAT acts as the source for the GoldenGate.After the refresh of source and the initial load on the target, we started the extract and replicat process.As, the source was 2-node RAC, extract was added with 2 Threads information ADD EXTRACT ext, TRANLOG, …