Re: Oracle Standby - DB_UNIQUE_NAME

From: Ndidi Ibeachum <chinedui_at_live.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:56:41 +0000
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Hello Andrew

Thanks for coming back.

I missed a detail in the original email.

The DB_UNIQUE_NAME is set on the primary and the standby in the SPFILE. The table V$DATABASE column DB_UNIQUE_NAME on the standby is what is blank while it is populated on the Primary.



From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:53 PM
To: chinedui_at_live.co.uk <chinedui_at_live.co.uk> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Re: Oracle Standby - DB_UNIQUE_NAME

I cant swear to this, but I think the unique name will show as blank if the db_name is the same as the db_unique_name.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:51 AM Ndidi Ibeachum <chinedui_at_live.co.uk<mailto:chinedui_at_live.co.uk>> wrote: Hello Team

I have an issue. We have an Oracle 11g Database running on AIX. This also has a standby configured. The archives are synced to a directory on the standby server and recovery is performed every 20 minutes to keep the standby in sync.

I observed an anomaly while fixing one of our shell scripts and found that the V$DATABASE table column - DB_UNIQUE_NAME is blank but the parameter is set on both the standby and primary.

Checked an oracle note - 2491642.1 which spoke about this but pointed to PRIMARY_DB_UNIQUE_NAME.

I have checked all the parameters and even RMAN and yet I am baffled at how this happened. Has anyone come across this before and what can be done to remedy it?

Appreciate your feedback.

Thanks so much

Chinedu I.

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Apr 13 2023 - 17:56:41 CEST

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