Checkpoint table does not exist even after creating it - oracle-golden-gate

I have created checkpoint table ggate for replicat rep1 but still I am getting following error:
2014-09-04 23:38:21 ERROR OGG-00446 Oracle GoldenGate Delivery for
Oracle, REP1.prm: Checkpoint table ggate.checkpoint does not exist.
Please create the table or recreate the REP1 group using the correct
table.
2014-09-04 23:38:21 ERROR OGG-01668 Oracle GoldenGate Delivery for
Oracle, REP1.prm: PROCESS ABENDING.
Can anyone tell me how to resolve it?

In this kind of situations you should:
Have you actually run the ADD CHECKPOINTTABLE? if not run it
Check if the checkpoint table actually exists in the database - if it has been created - try to drop it (DROP CHECKPOINTTABLE) and recreate it (ADD CHECKPOINTTABLE)
Check if the checkpoint parameter is correctly set in the GLOBALS config file
Restart the MGR and Extract/Replicat processes
Verify if the user has access on the database to the checkpoint table (insert, update, delete rights)
If nothing works, run 10046 flag on the target database and check what the GoldenGate Replicat process is executing on the database and when it actually fails (what it wants to do on the database and try to do the same commands by yourself)

This is a simple troubleshooting initiative:
Are you using a traditional non-CDB database or a PDB?
Are you using Classic Architecture or Microservices Architecture? - Different approaches when adding a checkpoint table.
How are you running ADD CHECKPOINTTABLE? From GGSCI/AdminClient or from HTML5 page?
In Classic Architecture, do you have CHECKPOINTTABLE parameter set in GLOBALS? (CHECKPOINTTABLE [container.] owner.table)
Who are you logged into the database as when using DBLOGIN USERIDALIAS?
What replicat are you using? - Classic, Coordinated, Integrated, Parallel?
Check the schema where the table is suppose to be? If not there, you can query the DBA_TABLES view for the name of the checkpoint table and see who owns it.
A lot of times when the checkpint table cannot be created it is due to not updating the GLOBALS file and/or connecting as the correct user to the database.

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aws codedeploy - running sql scripts

I run my sql scripts which inserts data to DB as a part of my codedeploy lifecycle event on a Autoscaling group. The Autoscaling group has 2 instances, the sql scripts run fine on the 1st instance and the deployment is successful on that instance.
In the 2nd instance, as the DB has the data already inserted the sql script fails with the below error message:
[stderr]ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 32: Duplicate entry
Any workaround or solution will be of great help.
Thanks
It suggests that the DB already has an entry which you're trying to insert, hence that error. You may like to first check if the DB has that entry or not.
To identify which part of the script is giving you this error, you may try to create subset of your script and identify the actual cause.
This certainly is the issue when you already have some record(s) and the DB / Table / schema does not allow for duplicate entry.
Assuming your deployment group is a OneAtATime deployment type, then your lifecycle hook should check for the entry before it inserts the SQL.
That way, only the first deployed instance will apply the change. The other deployments will test for the entry, and then skip the insert code phase.

Why would the TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb start failing with "Query processor could not produce a query plan"?

Why would the TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb SQL Agent job start failing with "Query processor could not produce a query plan"?
Query processor could not produce a query plan because of the hints defined in this query. Resubmit the query without specifying any hints and without using SET FORCEPLAN. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8622).
Our SQL guys are talking about amending the stored proc. but we've told them to treat BizTalk db's as a black box
It should go without saying, but before anything, make sure to backup your databases. In fact, if your regular backup jobs are running, you may be able to restore a backup and compare things to when it was working on this server. That said -
Check the SQL Agent Job to make sure no additional steps have been added/no plan has been forced/no hints are being used; it should just have one step called 'Purge' that calls the procedure below with the DB server and DTA database name as parameters.
Check the procedure (BizTalkMsgBoxDb.dbo.bts_CopyTrackedMessagesToDTA) to make sure it hasn't been altered.
If this is a production or otherwise sensitive box, back up the DBs and restore them to a local dev environment before proceeding!
If this is not production, see if you can run the procedure (perhaps in a transaction that you rollback) directly in SSMS. See if you get any better errors. Add print statements to see if you can find out exactly where it's getting conflicting hints.
If the procedure won't run, consider freeing the procedure cache (DBCC FREEPROCCACHE) and seeing if the procedure will run.
If it runs in your dev environment from a backup, you may have to start looking at server/database settings. I can't think of which ones off the top of my head that would cause this error though.
For what it's worth, well intentioned DBAs break BizTalk frequently. They decide that an index is missing or not properly covering, or that security could be improved, or that the database should be treated like other databases they administer are treated. I've seen DBAs do really silly things to the BizTalk databases that get very hard to diagnose.
Did you try updating the statistics on the database table referenced by the stored procedure (which is run by the SQL Server Agent job? The query planner uses those to decide how best to execute your SQL.

specify default schema for a database in db2 client

Do we have any way to specify default schema in cataloged DBs in db2 client in AIX.
The problem is , when it's connecting to DB, it's taking user ID as default schema and that's where it's failing.
We have too many scripts that are doing transactions to DB without specifying schema in their db2 sql statements. So it's not feasible to change scripts at all.
Also we can't create users to match schema.
You can try to type SET SCHEMA=<your schema> ; before executing your queries.
NOTE: Not sure if this work (I am without a DB2 database at the moment, but it seems that work) and depending on your DB2 version.
You can create a stored procedure that just changes the current schema and then set the SP as connect proc. You can test some conditions before make that schema change, for example if the stored procedure is executed from the AIX server directly with a given user.
You configure the database to use this SP each time a connection is established by modifying connect_proc
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v10r5/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.config.doc/doc/r0057371.html
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v10r5/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.dbobj.doc/doc/c0057372.html
You can create alias in the new user schema that points to the tables with the other schema. Refer these links :
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v10r5/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0000910.html
http://bytes.com/topic/db2/answers/181247-do-you-have-always-specify-schema-when-using-db2-clp

How to create a small and simple database using Oracle 11 g and SQL Developer?

How to create a small and simple database using Oracle 11 g and SQL Developer ?
I am seeing too many errors and I cannot find any way to make a simple database.
For example
create database company;
Caused the following error:
Error starting at line 1 in command:
create database company
Error at Command Line:1 Column:0
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed
ORA-01100: database already mounted
01501. 00000 - "CREATE DATABASE failed"
*Cause: An error occurred during create database
*Action: See accompanying errors.
EDIT-
This is completely different from MySQL and MS-SQL that I am familiar with.
Not as intuitive as I was expecting.
First off, what Oracle calls a "database" is generally different than what most other database products call a "database". A "database" in MySQL or SQL Server is much closer to what Oracle calls a "schema" which is the set of objects owned by a particular user. In Oracle, you would generally only have one database per server (a large server might have a handful of databases on it) where each database has many different schemas. If you are using the express edition of Oracle, you are only allowed to have 1 database per server. If you are connected to Oracle via SQL Developer, that indicates that you already have the Oracle database created.
Assuming that you really want to create a schema, not a database (using Oracle terminology), you would create the user
CREATE USER company
IDENTIFIED BY <<password>>
DEFAULT TABLESPACE <<tablespace to use for objects by default>>
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE <<temporary tablespace to use>>
You would then assign the user whatever privileges you wanted
GRANT CREATE SESSION TO company;
GRANT CREATE TABLE TO company;
GRANT CREATE VIEW TO company;
...
Once that is done, you can connect to the (existing) database as COMPANY and create objects in the COMPANY schema.
Actually the answer from Justin above could not be more incorrect. SQL Server and MySQL are for smallish databases. Oracle is for large enterprise databases, thus the difference in it's structure. And it is common to have more than one Oracle database on a server provided that the server is robust enough to handle the load. If you received the error posted above then you obviously are trying to create a new Oracle database and if you are doing that then you probably already understand the structure of an Oracle database. The likely scenario is that you attempted to create a database using dbca, it initially failed, but the binaries were created. You then adjusted your initial parameters and re-tried creating the database using dbca. However, the utility sees the binaries and folder structure for the database that you are creating so it thinks that the database already exists but is not mounted. Dropping the database and removing the binaries and folders as well as any other cleanup of the initial attempt should be done first, then try again.
From your question description, I think you were to create a database schema, not a database instance. In Oracle terminology, a database instance is a set of files in the file system. It's more like data files in MySQL. Whereas database in MySQL is somewhat equivalent to Oracle's schema.
To create a schema in Oracle: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_6014.htm
To create a database instance in Oracle (I personally prefer CDBA):
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/create.htm#ADMIN11068
Notice the Oracle Express edition does not support mounting more than one database instance at one time.

Automatic fix for tempdb error related to 'ASPStateTempSessions'

As per this how-to, I've successfully configured IIS on my XP-SP3 dev box for SQL Server 2008 Express to save ASP.NET session state information. I'm just using SQL Server because otherwise on every recompile, I was losing the session state which was obnoxious (having to re-login). But, I'm facing an annoying issue in that every time I restart SQL there's this error, and sometimes one or two other very similar friends:
The SELECT permission was denied on the object 'ASPStateTempSessions',
database 'tempdb', schema 'dbo'.
To fix the error, I just open Management Studio and edit the User Mapping for the login/dbo I'm using on the ASPState db, and re-add tempdb to that user with all but deny permissions. Apparently, once the right permissions are there, ASP.NET is able to automatically create the tables it uses. It just can't run that CreateTempTables sproc until the right security is there.
THE QUESTION...
Is there a way to not have to re-do this on every restart of the SQL Server?
I don't really care right now about keeping the temp data across restarts, but I would like to not have to go through this manual step just to get my web app working on localhost, which uses session state variables throughout. I suppose one could resort to some kind of stored procedure within SQL Server to accomplish the task for this machine when the service starts, to not have to do it manually. I'd accept such an answer as a quick fix. But, I'm also assuming there's a better recommended configuration or something. Not seeing an answer to this on the how-to guide or elsewhere here on StackOverflow.
Both answers seem valid; but with most things Microsoft, its all in the setup...
First uninstall the ASPState database by using the command:
aspnet_regsql –ssremove –E -S .
Note:
-E is to indicate you want to use integrated security connection.
-S informs what SQL server and SQL instance to use, and the "." (dot) specifies default local instance
Then re-install using the command:
aspnet_regsql –ssadd –sstype p –E -S .
Note:
The sstype has three options, t | p | c ... the first "t", tells the installer to host all stored procedures in the ASPState database, and all data in the tempdb. The second option "p" tells the installer to persist data to the ASPState database. The last option "c" allows you to specify a different 'custom' database to persist the session state data.
If you reinstall using the "-sstype p" you then need only to supply datareader/datawriter to the ASPState database for the user that's making the connection (in most cases, the application pool's identity in IIS).
The added benefit of persisting the data is that session state is retained even after a restart of the service. The only drawback is that you need to ensure the agent cleanup job is pruning old sessions regularly (it does this by default, every minute).
Important:
If you are running a cluster, you must persist session data. You're only option is to use sstype 'p' or 'c'.
Hope this sheds light on the issue!
For the record, I did find a way to do this.
The issue is that the tempdb is recreated from the model db each time the service restarts. The gist of the solution is to create a stored procedure that does the job, and then make that procedure run at startup.
Source code (credit to the link above) is as follows:
use master
go
-- remove an old version
drop proc AddAppTempDBOwner
go
-- the sp
create proc AddAppTempDBOwner as
declare #sql varchar(200)
select #sql = 'use tempdb' + char(13) + 'exec sp_addrolemember ''db_owner'', ''app'''
exec (#sql)
go
-- add it to the startup
exec sp_procoption 'AddAppTempDBOwner', 'startup', 'true'
go
Well done for finding the strangest way possible to do this.
The correct answer is as follows:
use master
go
EXEC sp_configure 'Cross DB Ownership Chaining', '1'
go
RECONFIGURE
go
EXEC sp_dboption 'ASPState', 'db chaining', 'true'
go

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