ALTER DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION

Hi,
I've created a database audit in SQL2008R2 and now can't seem to disable/delete it. I assumed it would be a case of
disable database audit
delete database audit
disable server audit
delete server audit
However I cannot even do steps 1 and 2. I scripted deletion of the database audit but when I run it from a query window it just runs and runs.
USE [Admin]
GO
ALTER DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION [DatabaseAuditSpecification-20150420-122643]
WITH (STATE = OFF)
GO
USE [Admin]
GO
DROP DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION [DatabaseAuditSpecification-20150420-122643]
GO
Now I can't even open/refresh the "Audits" folder at the instance level, getting this error
"Lock request time out period exceeded. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1222)"
I have the option of restarting the instance tonight at 18:30, however I need to be able to audit
a couple of databases for DELETE/INSERT before this time.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

I suspect that you may need to have exclusive access to the database for a short period of time in order to disable the Database
Audit Specification.
Perhaps try switching the database to RESTRICTED_USER in order to perform the audit deletion/disable and then
reverting back to MULTI_USER
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/0ef500d6-b902-4c64-88d3-e2871eb98ac8/trouble-while-enabling-database-audit-specification

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"Database Audit Specification" not available.

Hi all,
Been asked by one of the developers to audit delete & insert for one night only so I thought to investigate built in auditing via "new
Database Audit Specification". I am in the sysadmin role but no option to add a database audit, the server audit is however available.
This is SQL 2008R2 enterprise.
Any ideas?
Thanks

I am in the sysadmin role but no option to add a database audit, the server audit is however available.
This is SQL 2008R2 enterprise.
Any ideas?
Thanks
It is something that should be created at Database level so you need to navigate to Database - Security folder.
There "New DB Audit Sepcification" option can be seen.
E.g.
Cheers,
Vaibhav Chaudhari
[MCP],
[MCTS], [MCSA-SQL2012]

DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION ON SPECIFIC USERS

Hi All,
Currently I am using SQL server 2012 and would like to implement database audit specification on specific users in my database. These are the users in my database name Payroll :-
Payroll\Andy.Bred - db_owner
Payroll\Arpit.Shah - db_owner
Payroll\webapp - db_datareader, db_datawriter, EXECUTE
web_payroll - db_datareader, db_datawriter, EXECUTE
In my database audit specification settings, I would like to capture any SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE and EXECUTE command for users Payroll\Andy.Bred & Payroll\Arpit.Shah only since they owned db_owner access. However, I am unable to capture any single command
from both users. I do not want to put 'Principal' as public since I just want to capture both users activity.
Is it I miss out anything? Is it because of windows login account? Hope can get some advise here. Highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Han

Hi Han,
Are your Windows login accounts member of the SQL Server sysadmin role? If that is the case, the login accounts are indirectly mapped as database user dbo. Please change the principal name in the audit action name to dbo and check if the users activity is
being audited.
There are also similar threads for your reference.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1082578-1526-1.aspx
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/a1df289d-555e-46c3-803a-2ae97af807a3/sql-auditing-database-audit-specification-is-not-logging-events-by-windows-authenticated-user?forum=sqlsecurity
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Can we have multiple database audit specification on a single server audit ?

Hi,
We are having a 2 node Sql Clustered instance of SqlServer 2008 R2 Enterprise running
on windows server 2008 R2. We have about 88 databases in the instance.
Our servers run on Intel Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @2.94 GHz with 6 cores(12 logical processor).
The servers are having 12GB of RAM.
We are planning to introduce database level audit to find if there is any activity on
some of our databases. These databases are not growing in size and there is a request
from the application team to ascertain whether the endusers are accessing the database
over a period of time. In this context I have 2 queries-:
1)Can we have multiple database audit specification on a single server audit ie can we
audit multiple databases to find out the user activity on those databases at a time? Or
should we a separate server audit for each database audit specification?
2)We plan to have the target of the audit on a file on the same shared volume(lun) where
the MDF file and LDF files are located(in EMC storage) and in this context what performance
monitor counters should we watch to ascertain whether there is any performance degradation
due to introduction of server audit.
Thanking you in advance
Binny Mathew.

As Auditn is at the SQL Server instance level. You can have multiple audits per SQL Server instance.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280386.aspx
Database Audit Specification
The Database Audit Specification object also belongs to a SQL Server audit. You can create one database audit specification per SQL Server database per audit.
The database audit specification collects database-level audit actions raised by the Extended Events feature. You can add either audit action groups or audit events to a database audit specification. Audit events are
the atomic actions that can be audited by the SQL Server engine. Audit action groups are predefined groups of actions. Both are at the SQL Server database scope. These actions are sent to the audit, which records
them in the target. Do not include server-scoped objects, such as the system views, in a user database audit specification.
Database-level audit action groups and audit actions are described in the topic SQL Server Audit Action Groups and Actions.
You can also consider using a Profiler trace file to capture the events.
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How to find the database details from server audit specification with successfull login group?

Hi,
We have created a server audit for successfull logins.When we read the audit file using
sys.fn_get_audit_file we find that all the fields related to the databases
ie database_principal_id,database_principal_name,database_name are either 0 or null.
Is there a method to find out to which database the login is accessing from the server
audit specification of successfull login group.Although the logins are reading and writing
data to the databases why there are no details of the databases?
Thanking you in advance,
Binny Mathew

Hello Binny,
The logins are used to connect to the instance and the access to the databases is performed via database users. So, once you connect to the instance via your login, the server level audit takes this action, records it, but without caring to which databases
you want to connect after that.
Unfortunately there is no similar action group on the database audit specifications, that can track which user connected to the DB, except if you are using contained databases in SQL 2012.
Probably you can share why you need such information and if there is something else specific that you wish to achieve, so we can propose a different solution/audit configuration.
Regards,
Ivan
Ivan Donev MCT and MCSE Data Platform

How to find SQL statement = Database Auditing

Dear All
I have configured Database Auditing on Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition Server
parameter init.ora file:
AUDIT_TRAIL = "DB"
I want to audit INSERT,UPDATE, DELETE STATEMENT on PRACTICE.EMP table
for which i did :
1) Logged in as SYS
SQL> AUDIT INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE
ON PRACTICE.EMP
BY ACCESS
WHENEVER SUCCESSFUL
Audit Succedded
2) Now I have to check the SQL statement that did insert update or delete operation using SYS.AUD$
3) There is SQLTEXT field , datatype is CLOB.
How should I check the SQL Statements that were fired on PRACTICE.EMP table
Kindly help

SQL> show user
USER is "SYS"
SQL> alter system set audit_trail = db,extended scope=spfile;
alter system set audit_trail = db,extended scope=spfile
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-32001: write to SPFILE requested but no SPFILE specified at startup
I have init.ora but no spifle so should I create SPFILE based on INIT.ORA and then give the command ?
As of now I am using V$SQL view to find all the commands executed on my database.
I found one good book "Oracle Security" OREILY PUBLICATION in which Auditing Database is discussed in good details.
Thank you so much for all your efforts

What if "ALTER DATABASE OPEN" WORKS WHEN DB IS INCONSISTENT???

Hello Everyone,
I heard from couple of friends that in the case of recovery , oracle database opens despite the fact that some of the data files are inconsistent.
Is this really true? If it is, then i think its a bug with specific Oracle patch or release.
Is there anyone who has experienced a similar situation in the past? Please share.
Thanks.
sapguy

Appreciate your response. I ran into a situation where we are not sure of what time choose to choose recovery (point in time) and ended up recovering file by file and its been 100 files .. .none of those files helped with "Media recovery complete" message . This is database refresh from production backup.
Then when i am trying to issue ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS one of main guy says do not issue OPEN command as it may corrupt the database.
I came across one of friend who ran into similar situation and he was able open the database , but LATER database started issuing ora 600 due to corrupted files or whatever which never happened. Forgive me .. if my text is confusing.
Thanks.

Alter database open

Hi,
I try to start a database with the commands
startup mount
alter database noarchivelog
everything is ok up to now
When I give the command
alter database open
I obtain
ERROR at line 1
ORA-01092 Oracle instance terminated Disconnection forced.
Why?
Thank you,
Mihaela

I post the last 120 lines of alert_log:
Mon Jul 24 12:57:31 2006
alter database noarchivelog
Mon Jul 24 12:57:31 2006
Completed: alter database noarchivelog
Mon Jul 24 12:57:44 2006
alter database open
Mon Jul 24 12:57:47 2006
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 1281
Current log# 3 seq# 1281 mem# 0: /web/oradata/simmer/redo03_A.log
Current log# 3 seq# 1281 mem# 1: /web/oradata/simmer/redo03_B.log
Successful open of redo thread 1
Mon Jul 24 12:57:47 2006
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Mon Jul 24 12:57:50 2006
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 1.
Mon Jul 24 12:57:50 2006
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Mon Jul 24 12:57:50 2006
Errors in file /web/bin/oracle/9206/admin/simmer/udump/simmer_ora_1636.trc:
ORA-12701: CREATE DATABASE character set is not known
Mon Jul 24 12:57:50 2006
Error 12701 happened during db open, shutting down database
USER: terminating instance due to error 12701
Instance terminated by USER, pid = 1636
ORA-1092 signalled during: alter database open
Tue Jul 25 09:52:36 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
SCN scheme 3
Using log_archive_dest parameter default value
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.6.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 300
timed_statistics = TRUE
shared_pool_size = 117440512
large_pool_size = 16777216
java_pool_size = 117440512
control_files = /web/oradata/simmer/control01.ctl, /web/arhive/ctl/control02.ctl, /web/bin/oracle/9206/ctl/control03.ctl
db_block_size = 8192
db_cache_size = 33554432
compatible = 9.2.0.0.0
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 16
fast_start_mttr_target = 300
undo_management = AUTO
undo_tablespace = UNDOTBS1
undo_retention = 10800
remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
db_domain =
instance_name = SIMMER
job_queue_processes = 10
hash_join_enabled = TRUE
background_dump_dest = /web/bin/oracle/9206/admin/simmer/bdump
user_dump_dest = /web/bin/oracle/9206/admin/simmer/udump
core_dump_dest = /web/bin/oracle/9206/admin/simmer/cdump
sort_area_size = 1048576
db_name = SIMMER
open_cursors = 300
optimizer_mode = rule
star_transformation_enabled= FALSE
query_rewrite_enabled = FALSE
pga_aggregate_target = 25165824
aq_tm_processes = 1
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
LGWR started with pid=4
CKPT started with pid=5
SMON started with pid=6
RECO started with pid=7
CJQ0 started with pid=8
QMN0 started with pid=9
Tue Jul 25 09:52:44 2006
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Tue Jul 25 09:52:49 2006
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 535276268
Tue Jul 25 09:52:49 2006
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Completed: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Tue Jul 25 09:52:50 2006
ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Tue Jul 25 09:52:51 2006
Beginning crash recovery of 1 threads
Tue Jul 25 09:52:52 2006
Started redo scan
Tue Jul 25 09:52:53 2006
Completed redo scan
21 redo blocks read, 5 data blocks need recovery
Tue Jul 25 09:52:53 2006
Started recovery at
Thread 1: logseq 1281, block 1240, scn 0.28883578
Tue Jul 25 09:52:53 2006
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 3 Seq 1281 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0 errs 0: /web/oradata/simmer/redo03_A.log
Mem# 1 errs 0: /web/oradata/simmer/redo03_B.log
Tue Jul 25 09:52:53 2006
Completed redo application
Tue Jul 25 09:52:53 2006
Ended recovery at
Thread 1: logseq 1281, block 1261, scn 0.28903619
5 data blocks read, 5 data blocks written, 21 redo blocks read
Crash recovery completed successfully
Tue Jul 25 09:52:54 2006
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1282
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 1282
Current log# 1 seq# 1282 mem# 0: /web/oradata/simmer/redo01_A.log
Current log# 1 seq# 1282 mem# 1: /web/oradata/simmer/redo01_B.log
Successful open of redo thread 1
Tue Jul 25 09:52:56 2006
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Tue Jul 25 09:52:59 2006
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 1.
Tue Jul 25 09:52:59 2006
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Tue Jul 25 09:52:59 2006
Database Characterset is US7ASCII
replication_dependency_tracking turned off (no async multimaster replication found)
Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN
openes.hq.fdeb.ro>
Thank you,
Mihaela

Alter Database Open Mystery

We have a script that issued the Startup command this morning. In the .trc logs we are able to see that the Startup command got as far as the Alter Database Mount command. So we know this command completed successfully. But the next command we expect to see is the Alter Database Open command. This was mysteriously absent from the .trc file.
We lack a full time DBA on our project so we are wondering if there is a logical explanation for this failure? Are there any places we can look to see why the Alter Database Open command was never issued and didn't appear in the .trc log?
Any suggestions or probably causes would be greatly appreciated.

DB version 9.2.0.6.0 on Solaris 8
Just noticed that our /UNDO file system is a 99% and that our UNDO tablespace is using 'auto extend' option. Could this be a potential cause?
/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/undo
11796416 10490922 125853 99% /undo
The alert log just stopped and didn't show anything regarding the Alter Database Open command. Then it jumps to this morning when one of our guys started the database manually. You can see this where May 3rd entries stop:
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Thu May 3 23:18:24 2007
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 1534972155
Thu May 3 23:18:24 2007
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Completed: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Fri May 4 07:10:07 2007
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Fri May 4 07:12:57 2007
Shutting down instance: further logons disabled
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 3
Fri May 4 07:12:57 2007
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
ORA-1109 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL...
Fri May 4 07:12:57 2007
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
ARCH: Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
ARCH: Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
Fri May 4 07:13:07 2007
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Disable cache advisory with old cache parameters
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
SCN scheme 3
Using log_archive_dest parameter default value
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.6.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 200
timed_statistics = TRUE
shared_pool_size = 150994944
java_pool_size = 50331648
nls_date_format = DD-MON-RR
control_files = /oracle_data/oradata1/FC/control01.ctl, /oracle_dat
a/oradata2/FC/control02.ctl, /oracle_data/oradata3/FC/control03.ctl
db_block_buffers = 22000
db_block_size = 2048
db_writer_processes = 2
dbhandles_cached = 0
compatible = 9.0.0.0.0
log_buffer = 524288
log_checkpoint_interval = 10000
db_files = 38
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 32
dml_locks = 1500
undo_management = AUTO
undo_tablespace = undotbs_01
max_enabled_roles = 100
remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
db_domain = .WORLD
service_names = FC
utl_file_dir = /apps/oracle9i/admin/FC/script
job_queue_processes = 1
systemtrig_enabled = TRUE
background_dump_dest = /apps/oracle9i/admin/FC/bdump
user_dump_dest = /apps/oracle9i/admin/FC/udump
max_dump_file_size = 10240
core_dump_dest = /apps/oracle9i/admin/FC/cdump
audit_trail = DB
sort_area_size = 1500000
db_name = FC
open_cursors = 200
optimizer_mode = choose
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
DBW1 started with pid=4
LGWR started with pid=5
CKPT started with pid=6
SMON started with pid=7
RECO started with pid=8
CJQ0 started with pid=9
Fri May 4 07:13:09 2007
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Fri May 4 07:13:14 2007
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 1534971461
Fri May 4 07:13:14 2007
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Completed: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Fri May 4 07:13:14 2007
ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Fri May 4 07:13:15 2007
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 272984
Current log# 4 seq# 272984 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redo04.log
Successful open of redo thread 1
Fri May 4 07:13:15 2007
MTTR advisory is disabled because FAST_START_MTTR_TARGET is not set
Fri May 4 07:13:15 2007
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Fri May 4 07:13:17 2007
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 17.
Fri May 4 07:13:17 2007
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Fri May 4 07:13:17 2007
Database Characterset is US7ASCII
replication_dependency_tracking turned off (no async multimaster replication fou
nd)
Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Fri May 4 07:15:05 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272985
Current log# 5 seq# 272985 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC05.log
Fri May 4 07:15:28 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272986
Current log# 6 seq# 272986 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC06.log
Fri May 4 07:15:53 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272987
Current log# 7 seq# 272987 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC07.log
Fri May 4 07:16:18 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272988
Current log# 8 seq# 272988 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC08.log
Fri May 4 07:20:20 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272989
Current log# 9 seq# 272989 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC09.log
Fri May 4 07:20:45 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272990
Current log# 10 seq# 272990 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC10.log
Fri May 4 07:21:09 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272991
Current log# 11 seq# 272991 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redoFC11.log
Fri May 4 07:25:21 2007
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 272992
Current log# 2 seq# 272992 mem# 0: /rollback_logs/FC/redo02.log
Fri May 4 07:25:45 2007
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Alter database clear unarchived logfile group... who, what?

I am the sole DBA for our site, all of them running RHEL 5, Oracle 11.2.0.3.
I recently (within the last hour), received a text message from one of our databases that poll the alert.log...
ORA-1031 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLEAR UNARCHIVED LOGFILE GROUP 3
Unfortunately, the 'audit database' was not enabled (it is now!), and the trace file generated did not contain anything of use.
I know someone has been loading data since 1:30pm up until near the time I received this text, and I'm wondering if he is mucking in the system, or if this command can somehow be generated automatically by Oracle. If so, I certainly wouldn't expect an ORA-1031insufficient permissions error....
I checked my v$log, v$logfile, and did a log switch just to check if any possibility of redo log corruption, but all looks fine.
Has anyone else ever had random Oracle errors like this?....

Hi,
That's someone manually doing something when they really don't know what they are doing. I've only had to run that command once in 16 years as a dba. Oracle wouldn't ever run that itself.
Cheers,
Harry

Audit specific objects for specific users

audit statement has the option to choose audit by user list
audit object has the option to choose audited objects
now i need to audit specific objects, i.e. user A's tables accessed by a specific group of users, let's say ALL users other than A
Is it a simple way to achieve this goal? (audit A's tables that accessed by all database users other than A)
Thanks!

sorry, the link works now. However, there is nothing new in 10G, same as I read from 9i document. See my highlight below in the quoted document text, my requirements is the combination of them ( specific users and specific objects). Thanks anyway.
<quote
Table 8-1 Auditing Types and Descriptions
Type of Auditing (link to discussion)      Meaning/Description
Statement Auditing      Enables you to audit SQL statements by type of statement, not by the specific schema objects on which they operate. Typically broad, statement auditing audits the use of several types of related actions for each option. For example, AUDIT TABLE tracks several DDL statements regardless of the table on which they are issued. You can also set statement auditing to audit selected users or every user in the database.
Privilege Auditing
     Enables you to audit the use of powerful system privileges that enable corresponding actions, such as AUDIT CREATE TABLE. Privilege auditing is more focused than statement auditing, which audits only a particular type of action. You can set privilege auditing to audit a selected user or every user in the database.
Schema Object Auditing
     Enables you to audit specific statements on a particular schema object, such as AUDIT SELECT ON employees. Schema object auditing is very focused, auditing only a single specified type of statement (such as SELECT) on a specified schema object. Schema object auditing always applies to all users of the database.
Fine-Grained Auditing
     Enables you to audit at the most granular level, data access and actions based on content, using any Boolean measure, such as value > 1,000,000. Enables auditing based on access to or changes in a column.
/quote>

Trying to configure syslog process,to write the database audit logs

Folks,
Running Oracle 10g R2 on Sun Solaris v 10.
I am trying to configure my database environment, so it will write all the database audit logs to a location, where Oracle userid on unix cannot modify/delete it.
To accomplish my goal, so far I have done the following:
I have set the following parameter with these values
audit_file_dest /flood/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/rdbms/audit
audit_sys_operations TRUE
audit_trail OS
Also I asked my system administrator , to make an entry in the syslog.conf file at location /etc
He made the following entry
local3.notice /var/log/oraaudit.log
and restarted the syslog process
I also made the following entry
alter system set audit_syslog_level='LOCAL3.NOTICE' scope=spfile and bounced the database.
But after starting the database, i will don't see any oraaudit.log file at the location /var/log
Any help will be much appreciated.
Regards
Ashish

Hello Srini,
I mentioned in my posting , that I already set AUDIT_SYSLOG_LEVEL=LEVEL3.NOTICE value.
Also the permission on /var/log is such the Oracle unix userid cannot write to it and that is what I want. Since if Oracle userid can write, it can modify/delete the audit log also , which we are trying to prevent.
Thanks
Ashish

Oracle hands for 12 min during "alter database open"

Dear all,
After a disk failure/replacement in a SAN disk array that we are using for storage, we had to restore our Oracle database. After the restore the database does not start properly: It takes around 12 min to move from the state "Mount" to the state "Open". It finally opens but even after this, when I start SAP, only 5 workprocesses connect and logging into SAP is not possible, the gui just hangs
There are no errors in the alert_RSP.log. I attach an extract here to show the time difference between the mount state and the open state
Thu Apr 19 11:16:07 2007
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Thu Apr 19 11:16:29 2007
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
SCN scheme 3
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.7.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes                = 240
sessions                 = 288
timed_statistics         = TRUE
event                    = 38068 trace name context forever, level 100
shared_pool_size         = 620756992
sga_max_size             = 1159695232
shared_pool_reserved_size= 20401094
java_pool_size           = 167772160
enqueue_resources        = 8000
filesystemio_options     = SETALL
control_files            = /oracle/RSP/sapdata1/cntrl/cntrlRSP.dbf, /oracle/RSP/origlogA/cntrl/cntrlRSP.dbf, /oracle/RSP/sa
parch/cntrl/cntrlRSP.dbf
db_block_checksum        = FALSE
db_block_size            = 8192
compatible               = 9.2.0
log_archive_start        = TRUE
log_archive_dest         = /oracle/RSP/saparch/RSParch
log_buffer               = 1048576
log_checkpoint_interval = 0
log_checkpoint_timeout   = 0
db_files                 = 254
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
log_checkpoints_to_alert = TRUE
control_file_record_keep_time= 30
dml_locks                = 5000
replication_dependency_tracking= FALSE
transaction_auditing     = FALSE
undo_management          = AUTO
undo_tablespace          = PSAPUNDO
undo_suppress_errors     = TRUE
undo_retention           = 43200
remote_os_authent        = TRUE
db_domain                = WORLD
session_cached_cursors   = 800
hash_join_enabled        = FALSE
background_dump_dest     = /oracle/RSP/saptrace/background
user_dump_dest           = /oracle/RSP/saptrace/usertrace
max_dump_file_size       = 20000
core_dump_dest           = /oracle/RSP/saptrace/background
optimizer_features_enable= 9.2.0
sort_area_size           = 2097152
sort_area_retained_size = 0
db_name                  = RSP
open_cursors             = 800
optimizer_mode           = choose
sortelimination_cost_ratio= 10
btree_bitmap_plans     = FALSE
pushjoin_predicate     = FALSE
optimizerjoin_sel_sanity_check= TRUE
optimizer_index_cost_adj = 10
optimpeek_user_binds   = FALSE
optimizeror_expansion = DEPTH
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
DBW1 started with pid=4
DBW2 started with pid=5
DBW3 started with pid=6
LGWR started with pid=7
CKPT started with pid=8
SMON started with pid=9
RECO started with pid=10
Thu Apr 19 11:16:31 2007
ARCH: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES
ARC0 started with pid=11
ARC0: Archival started
ARC1 started with pid=12
ARC1: Archival started
Thu Apr 19 11:16:31 2007
ARCH: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES COMPLETE
Thu Apr 19 11:16:31 2007
ARC0: Becoming the 'no FAL' ARCH
ARC0: Becoming the 'no FAL' ARCHARC0: Thread not mounted
Thu Apr 19 11:16:31 2007
ARC1: Becoming the heartbeat ARCH
ARC1: Becoming the heartbeat ARCHARC1: Thread not mounted
Thu Apr 19 11:16:31 2007
ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT
Thu Apr 19 11:16:36 2007
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 1209727119
Thu Apr 19 11:16:36 2007
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Completed: ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT
Thu Apr 19 11:16:36 2007
ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Thu Apr 19 11:16:37 2007
LGWR: Primary database is in CLUSTER CONSISTENT mode
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 6727
Current log# 12 seq# 6727 mem# 0: /oracle/RSP/origlogB/log_g12m1.dbf
Current log# 12 seq# 6727 mem# 1: /oracle/RSP/mirrlogB/log_g12m2.dbf
Successful open of redo thread 1
Thu Apr 19 11:16:37 2007
MTTR advisory is disabled because FAST_START_MTTR_TARGET is not set
Thu Apr 19 11:16:38 2007
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Thu Apr 19 11:16:49 2007
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 27.
Thu Apr 19 11:16:49 2007
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Thu Apr 19 11:16:50 2007
Database Characterset is WE8DEC
Thu Apr 19 11:29:09 2007
Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Please note the time difference between 11:16:50 and 11:29:09, when the database is mounted and we are just waiting for it to open
I run dbverify, all ok
I reviewed note 521264 and my issue is described in case 2c. However, after reviewing all 127 datafiles and online redologs, I do not have any files with an "S" in their permissions
We run Solaris 10, Oracle 9.2.0.7 and WAS 6.40 SP16
Any help will be very much appreciated
Many thanks
Andreas

Hello,
Here are the details:
R3trans -d returns 0000 instantly. I am not including trans.log here as the connection to the database works . I have no space issues neither, have around 70GB left under /oracle
The startup log is as follows
Trace of system startup/check of SAP System RSP on Fri Apr 20 08:38:10 BST 2007
Called command: /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/startsap
Starting SAP Instance DVEBMGS00
SAP-R/3-Startup Program Rel 640 V1.8 (2003/04/24)
Starting at 2007/04/20 08:38:10
Startup Profile: "/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/START_DVEBMGS00_rspda002"
Execute Pre-Startup Commands
(6285) Local: /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/sapmscsa -n pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/sapmscsa: SCSA is attached and useable.
/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/sapmscsa: finished.
(6285) Local: rm -f ms.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: ln -s -f /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/msg_server ms.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: rm -f dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: ln -s -f /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/disp+work dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: rm -f co.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: ln -s -f /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/rslgcoll co.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: rm -f se.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
(6285) Local: ln -s -f /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/rslgsend se.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00
Starting Programs
(6304) Starting: local ms.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
(6305) Starting: local dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
(6306) Starting: local co.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 -F pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
(6307) Starting: local se.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 -F pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
(6285) Waiting for Child Processes to terminate.
Instance on host rspda002 started
ps -ef | grep dw is shown below: It only starts 5 -6 dialog processes. All the other processes are not started (normally I have around 40 )
rspda002:rspadm 33% ps -ef | grep dw
rspadm 6317 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6310 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:01 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6311 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6624 5523   0 08:43:35 pts/1       0:00 grep dw
rspadm 6305 6285   0 08:38:11 ?           0:04 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6312 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:01 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6313 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
That is ps -ef | grep sap
rspda002:rspadm 32% ps -ef | grep sap
rspadm 6317 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6310 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:01 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
    root 12375   650   0 11:15:58 ?           3:56 /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/saposcol
rspadm 6311 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6309 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:01 icman -attach pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6306 6285   0 08:38:11 ?           0:00 co.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 -F pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6307 6285   0 08:38:11 ?           0:00 se.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 -F pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6304 6285   0 08:38:11 ?           0:00 ms.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6308 6305   0 08:38:16 ?           0:02 gwrd -dp pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6622 5523   0 08:43:29 pts/1       0:00 grep sap
rspadm 6305 6285   0 08:38:11 ?           0:04 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 20243   650   0 15:11:34 ?          13:11 sapccm4x -DCCMS pf==/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6285   650   0 08:38:11 ?           0:00 /usr/sap/RSP/SYS/exe/run/sapstart pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/START_DVEBMGS00_r
rspadm 6312 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:01 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
rspadm 6313 6305   0 08:38:17 ?           0:00 dw.sapRSP_DVEBMGS00 pf=/usr/sap/RSP/SYS/profile/RSP_DVEBMGS00_rspda002
Many thanks
Andreas

Alter database compared to alter system

Hi all,
Please,I think -and I hope I'm not wrong- that we use ALTER SYSTEM to modify the value of an initialization parameter.But when do we use alter database?
Thanks.

ALTER SYSTEM - applicable to the specific instance. It will be more clear if you think of a RAC environment - where one can alter the properties for a particular instance (system).
ALTER DATABASE - applicable to the physical aspects of the databases f.ex. data files.

What is the use of 'ALTER DATABASE CLOSE'?

Hello Everybody,
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Ma Aug 15 21:28:30 2005
Copyright © 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> startup force
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 171966464 bytes
Fixed Size 787988 bytes
Variable Size 145750508 bytes
Database Buffers 25165824 bytes
Redo Buffers 262144 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> select status from v$instance;
STATUS
OPEN
SQL> alter database close;
Database altered.
SQL> select status from v$instance;
STATUS
MOUNTED
SQL> alter database open;
alter database open
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-16196: database has been previously opened and closed
If i have to shutdown the instance and database then
WHAT IS THE USE OF 'ALTER DATABASE CLOSE' ?
I need explanation. Why should i shutdown?
Dont give me this answer.
ORA-16196: database has been previously opened and closed
Cause: The instance has already opened and closed the database, which is allowed only once in its lifetime.
Action: Shut down the instance.

If you read the documentation you will see that there is no ALTER DATABASE CLOSE command.
This is an undocumented Oracle command, which we are not supposed to use. Consequently we are not allowed to complain about the way that it works. Instead we're supposed to use SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE.
Cheers, APC

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