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Oracle Database Report for SmarTeam

Steve Dunn — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:15:05 +0000

For those of you running an Oracle database as your repository for SmarTeam, check out this helpful utility. The SmarTeam Database Oracle General Report tool is a collection of plain text files containing batch commands and SQL statements that can generate a detailed HTML report of key Oracle statuses and settings. The tool is available from Dassault’s support site by searching for QA00000002533. The output report from the tool includes information on:

Current server connections
Versions of installed Oracle components
Database file names, locations, and sizes
Database object counts by type and owner
Invalid code objects and indices
Scheduled jobs
General database parameters
NLS parameters
SmarTeam-specific information (DB version and last upgrade date)

In our case, the tool was particularly helpful in troubleshooting an ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site issue. The system was generating “Error No. 23325 – Database contains invalid database objects. Please perform necessary steps to fix them” while trying to initiate the primary site.

Although the error message was accurate, locating the problematic database object was tricky. However, running the SmarTeam Database Oracle General Report was helpful in honing in on the Oracle package that was causing the issue. Please contact us if you need help with or have questions about your SmarTeam Oracle environment, or have questions about this tool. Leave us a comment if you have other techniques to share related to Oracle setup, configuration, or troubleshooting for ENOVIA SmarTeam or other PLM systems.

Gotcha with Oracle 11g for SmarTeam

Steve Dunn — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:06:21 +0000

For those of you planning to move to Oracle 11g with SmarTeam V5R20, watch out for this one. With 11g, Oracle has introduced a feature called Deferred Segment Creation. Generally speaking, this is a nice feature because it saves space in exports and eliminates unneeded storage allocation in many databases. It can create problems with ENOVIA SmarTeam, however. This is a quick one, but a very important tip. Deferred Segment Creation in Oracle 11g means that Oracle won’t actually create the tables defined in your schema until the table has at least 1 row (deferring creation of table segments). By default, Deferred Segment Creation is turned on in Oracle 11g. So after creating your SmarTeam database in a brand new Oracle 11g environment, your first export will skip a large number of SmarTeam tables (many SmarTeam tables have 0 rows initially). As you’re probably aware, SmarTeam expects certain tables to be present at all times and without those tables, the software can fail to start or become unstable. So your export would be complete and consistent from an Oracle perspective, but worthless from a SmarTeam perspective. To address this issue, you simply need to turn Deferred Segment creation off with this command:

alter system set deferred_segment_creation=false;

Good luck, and leave us a comment to let us know what other goodies you’ve found in working with Oracle 11g for ENOVIA SmarTeam. You can read more about Deferred Segment Creation here, including a methodology for seeing it in action. Please contact us if we can help you with your Oracle for ENOVIA SmarTeam.

SmarTeam Multi-Site Diagnostic Services

Michael Craffey — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:28:32 +0000

For those administering an ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site replicated environment, there is an age-old problem in diagnosing and re-synchronizing replicated databases when issues occur. This process has Read More...

Surface Area Configuration for SQL Server

Sean Kuner — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:30:09 +0000

Surface Area – noun – the total area of a surface or surfaces, especially the outside surfaces of an object (according to the Macmillan dictionary) If we apply this definition to the world of IT security, it refers to the amount of exposure a system has to potential attackers. In Microsoft SQL Server, there are a number of services, ports, and connections that can be configured to control the amount of area (surface area) is exposed. Starting with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (including Express), there is a Configuration tool called SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration. Read More...

64-bit Oracle Support for ENOVIA SmarTeam

Steve Dunn — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:35 +0000

The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 Read More...

64-bit Oracle Support for ENOVIA SmarTeam

Steve Dunn — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:35 +0000

The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 Read More...

Troubleshooting a SmarTeam Client Connection

Steve Dunn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:08:42 +0000

ENOVIA SmarTeam’s client-server architecture relies on several key connections for successful client operation. When one of these connections is blocked or otherwise unavailable, the client will Read More...

Moving SQL Databases and Retaining Users

Sean Kuner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:00:46 +0000

If you’ve ever tried to pack up and move a SQL Server database from one computer to another, you’ve probably noticed that the permissions and users won’t Read More...

Resetting ID Fields in SQL Server

Paul Gimbel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:55:48 +0000

Part numbers, quotation numbers, item numbers, revisions, serial numbers…they’re all sequential values that need to be unique, and need to be tracked. In most cases (Design Read More...

Using SQL Replace

Sean Kuner — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:00:29 +0000

Have you ever wanted to globally replace one value with another inside of a database? Have you ever wanted to globally alter string data replacing one word with another in a database? If so, the SQL Replace statement could be just what you’re looking for! Read More...