Dbvisit version Dbvisit 5.2.28 has been released. This version fixes a compatibility issue with Oracle 8i and Oracle 9i which was introduced in a previous version.

This version allows Dbvisit to be installed alongside Data Guard to test a comparison between Dbvisit and Data Guard. Dbvisit now ignores the specific Data Guard settings which means Data Guard does not need to be removed and no init.ora parameters need to be changed.

This version ignores dynamic memory location parameters and parameters related to other instances in spfile/pfile when creating the standby database.

New features:

  1. Allow for Data Guard configurations to co-exists with Dbvisit.
    - Allow for VALID_FOR parameter.
    - Ignore standby redo log files in controlfile creation.

Fixes:

  1. Remove a prompt for pfile name if PFILE is not found on the server during creation of standby database.
  2. Set SOURCE and DESTINATION variables to short server names.
  3. Change variables _SEQUENCE_LANG_NAME and _ASM_EXCLUDE to quoted strings instead of lists.
  4. Change the query to obtain archive log names to ignore log archive destinations pointing to standby locations (used by Data Guard).
  5. Oracle 8i may contain incorrect location in v$archive_dest – Fixed.
  6. Does not use the correct SQL statement to obtain the standby database sequence for Oracle 8 and 9 – Fixed.
  7. Ignore dynamic memory location parameters and parameters related to other instances in spfile/pfile when creating standby database.
  8. When LOGDIR_DR is not set correctly there was an error message about incorrect mail settings – Fixed.

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