ORACLE AND AWS RDS FOR ORACLE TIP: Archive log retention and switch log file in AWS RDS Oracle

I have an issue while I was migrating my Oracle database On-Prem to AWS RDS for Oracle. My archive area went 100% full and I wasn’t enable to connect in my database. When you create your database in AWS Cloud have in mind that you will also need to consider an additional space to your archive area. So the purpose of this post is to show to you how to check the retention of the archive logs in your RDS Oracle database plus to learn how to generate a new…

ORACLE AND AWS RDS FOR ORACLE TIP: Where is my alert log at AWS RDS?

Managing your Oracle database on AWS RDS has some differences comparing it with the management of your Oracle database On-Prem. One of these differences is the daily retention of 30 days for the alert log in text and 7 days for the XML type. Therefore, how can I find my alert log? You can use the Amazon CloudWatch Logs to export the logs of your database but if you aren’t using this service you can query alertlog view or a table-like format as below: When you query the alertlog view,…

ORACLE AND AWS RDS FOR ORACLE TIP: ORA-20900: RDS only supports Oracle Managed Files. Check ddl and remove any

I have started to migrate some database On-Prem to AWS RDS. I have been migration Oracle On-Prem to AWS Oracle RDS which means that it will be a Homogeneous migration process. Then as one of the steps to migrate this database, I have taken all the DDL of the tablespaces On-Prem and decided to create in my target RDS database. Therefore, in the creation process I stuck in this error: According to Amazon documentation “Amazon RDS only supports Oracle Managed Files (OMF) for data files, log files, and control files.…