ORA-65040: operation not allowed from within a pluggable database

 Starting 12c, after introduction of pluggable databases, there are certain operations that can be performed only at the root container level. If you try to execute that operation/SQL within the PDB, you will receive ORA-65040. In this case you must ensure that the command you are executing is being executed at the root container level. Following is only one example of such operations that can only be performed from the root container.

Listener log file is empty and logging not happening

If listener log file is empty and no logging records are being logged in the log file, this probably means that someone truncate listener log file on the fly without following proper process. In Windows OS, you can not modify or truncate a file (listener log file in this case) that is in use by another proceess, however, Linux based OS would let you do this. After that, logging would no longer continue. Here I have explained the proper way of rotating listener log file. These instructions can be used for listener log file rotation as well as solving the issue of empty listener log file discussed here.

TNS-12508: TNS:listener could not resolve the COMMAND given

If you are in process of rotating listener log file  and you receive TNS-12508 while disabling log_status, this means you have imposed admin restrictions in listener log file for this listener. Same error would be returned for any other settings you would want to change using “set” command from lsnrctl utility. In the following I have reproduced this error and explained how to set and unset admin restrictions in listner log file.

Rotating Listener Log File

Rotating database log files is a common and day-to-day practice for DBAs. Rotation of logs is a process whereby we rename (and archive/compress) current log files so that new log files get created. Listener’s log file is also part of this practice because size of listener log file increases very fast, and it may increase beyond several GBs within a couple of months. If listener log file is not rotated, this may sometimes cause initial connection to database become slow. Therefore, this is very important to rotate listener log file. In the following I will explain how we rotate listener log file.