ddl_lock_timeout to avoid ORA-00054

I have a previous article available here that explains about ORA-00054 and the reason of this error, and alto the enhancement starting 12c to avoid this error. In this article I would further explain ORA-00054 and how to use an initialization parameter DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT to avoid this error. Instead of returning this error because of a lock on the object, your DDL would keep waiting for the locks to be released and get executed automatically when object is available for the DDL operation.

ASM Disks not Reachable After Reboot - Manually Loading ASM Driver

After a system reboot if you see ASM disks are not available, and scanning ASM disk returns “Unable to instantiate disk”, as follows, it could be because oracleasm driver was not loaded and hence ASM did not work as expected. As a result, ASM disks will not be visible to ASM instance and ASM diskgroups would not mounted. Following is the example output of if you execute “oracleasm scandisks” command.