We have just released Dbvisit 5.2.22 for all platforms.

This version allows for a different Standby Database name (ORACLE_SID_DEST) and different admin directories during the creation of the standby database. It also has a number of fixes, a number of which are related to NLS settings of non English.

The full details of this release are:

New features:

  1. Dbvisit now allows the Oracle admin directories on standby to be different from the primary database during creation of the Standby Database.

Fixes:

  1. Dbvisit does not pick up the correct sequence for RAC on the standby when NLS is set to Spanish.
  2. Fix issue with quotes around multiple email addresses: can’t extract address at ..
  3. Improve obtaining asmcmd version for Windows.
  4. Dbvisit does not pick up the archive log destination when NLS is set to Spanish during graceful switchover.
  5. Create standby database may fail in Oracle 8i due to long tablespace names. This has been fixed.
  6. Update check and add more tracing to determine if previous Dbvisit process is still running.
  7. Update dbvisit help text.
  8. If Dbvisit is unable to create Windows Oracle service during creation of standby database, Dbvisit will suggest to create the service manually.
  9. Ignore the following SQLPLUS error message when creating Dbvisit repository using dbvisit_setup: Error accessing PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE
  10. Dbvisit will detect if ORACLE_HOME_DR is set to a non-existing or not  valid directory on the standby server when creating a standby database and display a warning.
  11. Dbvisit may not correctly detect the creation of Oracle Windows service in other languages during creation of standby database. This has been fixed.

The latest version of Dbvisit can be downloaded from http://www.dbvisit.com/download.php