SAP - brbackup BR0301E logon denied

If you encounter SAP error while trying to use SAP brbackup as below

./brbackup -t online -p initERD_online.sap

BR0055I Start of database backup: bedgvjjf.and 2010-05-21 14.48.27
BR0484I BRBACKUP log file: /oracle/ERD/sapbackup/bedgvjjf.and
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-21 14.48.27
BR0301E SQL error -1017 at location BrDbConnect-2, SQL statement:
'CONNECT system/*******'
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
BR0310E Connect to database instance ERD failed
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-21 14.48.27

The error is due to the you need to put this "-u /" login as local user

./brbackup -u / -t online -p initERD_online.sap

SQL Server 2000 - Implement Password Policy

Password composition & Minimum password length
No SQL Server 2000 policy/settings can be set to enable this minimum password length for sql server login,
Workaround :- Set a new sp_password_neww to implement the feature or replace the existing sp_password procedure. (If Upgrading the SQL Server 2000, the original sp_password have to be put back) .

For creating a new sp_password_new and sp_addlogin_new
To make sure that the old procedures are not used, revoke execute permissions for both the SP_ADDLOGIN stored procedure and for the SP_PASSWORD stored procedure.Important :- The sa must not use Enterprise Manager, or use any other application that uses menu-driven methods for adding logins.

e.g.
add the below for the sp_addlogin
if @passwd is NULL
begin
Raiserror 20010 'The new password can not be blank/NULL.'
return (1)
end

if len(@passwd) < 6
begin
Raiserror 20020 'The new password can not be less than 6 characters.'
return (1)
end

if not (@passwd like '%[0-9]%' and @passwd like '%[a-z]%')
begin
Raiserror 20020 'The new password must be alphanumeric.'
return (1)
end



Number of unsuccessful logons before lockout & Lockout duration
Unable to implement this on SQL 2000, since we're using sql server login and this feature are not availaible in Microsoft SQL 2000 it is only if we used Windows integrated login that it can be implemented. SQL 2000 don't have the "Alter Login ...." command
Info :http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic767023-146-1.aspx



How to implement password expiration dates for SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0 login IDs.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/80397

Oracle Forms Report Crash while generating Excel output, REP-56049

If you have encounter the error REP-56048: Engine rwENG-1 Crashed , job id: 39021, then you need to increase the memory settings of the reports.

to do this, in the $ORACLE_HOME/reports/config ,find your report config file
and change the engine id,

engine id="rwEng" class="oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl" initengine="1" maxengine="1" minengine="0" englife="1" maxidle="30" callbacktimeout="90000" jvmoptions="-Xms64m -Xmx32m -Xss8192k -Xoss8192k"

with jvmOptions to a higher value e.g.

engine id="rwEng" class="oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl" initengine="1" maxengine="1" minengine="0" englife="1" maxidle="30" callbacktimeout="90000" jvmoptions="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Xss8192k -Xoss8192k"


Restart the forms services after this.

If you still encounter this problem after increasing the memory and you oracle forms version is 10.1.2.0.2. Do the below,

1. Apply the latest patch set 10.1.2.3 and then apply the 6835690 patch 6835690 to run the report with enhancedspreadsheet. Download and apply the Patch:5983622 for 10.1.2.3.

Note: The one-off patch:6835690 to get EnhancedSpreadsheet can be applied on release 10.1.2.2 too, but it is always recommended to upgrade to the latest patchset available. Right now the latest one is patchset 3.

3. To make sure the middle tier was successfully upgraded to patchset 3 (10.1.2.3), execute the following url and command:
http://host:port/reports/rwservlet/getserverinfo?

$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd -version

Both versions, Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) and Oracle Reports should be 10.1.2.3

4. Apply one-off patch 6835690 needed to work with EnhancedSpreadsheet desformat.


After that , change the format to DESFORMAT=ENHANCEDSPREADSHEET has been introduced to generate large data sets (up to 75,000 rows) to spreadsheets as indicated patch:6835690

Upgrading Oracle 10gR2 to Oracle 11gR2

Recently we upgrade our linux oracle 10gr2, 10.2.0.4 to the Oracle 11Gr2.
Using the DBUA , below are the errors we encounter :-

1) Error ignored: ORA-00044: timed_statistics must be TRUE when statistics_level
is not BASIC. ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters

When we check our oracle 10gr2 parameter , we set the timed_statistics=false. To resolve this we turn it back to TRUE


2) Another error, oracle 11g unable to access our audit file dest, audit_file_dest. This is due to we're using another different id and group to install the oracle 11g. To resolve this we change the folder permission to world writable.


3) ORA-04023: Object SYS.STANDARD could not be validated or authorized.

To resolve this we try ,
1) Starts back the oracle 10gr2 , then run the below but still not working.
@?/rdbms/admin/catalog
@?/rdbms/admin/catproc
@?/rdbms/admin/utlrp

2) Follow metalink note, Upgrading to 11.1.0 and DBUA reports ORA-4023 On SYS.STANDARD [ID 729909.1] but still doesn't work.

3) In the end , we do the manually upgrading process. Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to 11gR2 [ID 837570.1]
which seems don't have any problem.


References: -
Upgrade 11g, ORA-04023: Object SYS.STANDARD errors
http://www.oracle-base.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9888
Upgrading 11g
http://avdeo.com/2007/09/07/upgrading-to-oracle-database-11g/

Oracle Wallet Manager(OWM) :Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: owm2

Recently, we encounter the error as below in the Oracle Wallet Manager,

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: owm2 (No such file or directory)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithPath(ClassLoader.java:993)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithClassLoader(ClassLoader.java:962)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:465)
at oracle.security.wallet.NZNative.(NZNative)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200)
at oracle.security.admin.wltmgr.owma.OwmaApp.init(OwmaApp)
at oracle.sysman.emSDK.client.appContainer.WebApplication.launch(WebApplication.java:3446)
at oracle.sysman.emSDK.client.appContainer.WebApplication.main(WebApplication.java:3327)

To try to fix this error, we try to set the path for LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $ORACLE_HOME/lib but still the error persists. In the end , we found out that the error is due to the JDK , which we have upgrade from the existing 1.5 JDK to 1.6 JDK 64bit.

To fix it, we change the path in the file $ORACLE_HOME/bin/owm
JRE_HOME=/ApplTop/ias10gr2/app/product/10.1.3/jdk/jre
to JRE_HOME=/ApplTop/ias10gr2/app/product/10.1.3/jdk.orig/jre/ (Points back to original 1.5 JDK)

SQL Server 2000 - The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds'

Recently, in SQL Server 2000 we encounter the error
" The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' " and also
" Timeout expired (Source: ODBC SQL Server Driver (ODBC); Error number: 0)"
this is due to recent password changed.

To solved this , right click the Distributor -> choose configure Publisher and
distributor properties and choose -> Click on the Publishers/Distributors and the "..." in the lists below and then set the sa passsword.



Replication information
http://www.replicationanswers.com/Transactional.asp

How to install Oracle Client or Oracle Database into debian

Here are some of the links that you can follow to install the oracle client or Oracle xe on the debian

Oracle: Database for Debian installation guide
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Oracle_Database.html

Installing Oracle XE on Debian
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/430

Installing Oracle XE on Debian
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-install-oracle-on-debian/