Oracle DBMS_SHARED_CAPTURE_ADM
Version 26ai

General Information
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Purpose Administration utilities for Shared Capture administration.
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
Dependencies
DBA_CAPTURE DBMS_STANDARD
DBA_QUEUES DBMS_STREAMS_ADM
DBA_QUEUE_TABLES DBMS_STREAMS_ADM_UTL
DBA_SHARED_CAPTURE DBMS_SYSTEM
DBA_SHARED_CAPTURE_PDBS DBMS_XSTREAM_GG_ADM
DBA_TABLESPACES DBMS_XSTREAMS_UTL_IVK
DBMS_ASSERT GV_$GOLDENGATE_CAPTURE
DBMS_CAPTURE_ADM_INTERNAL JSON_ARRAY_T
DBMS_CHANGE_TABLE_ADM JSON_ELEMENT_T
DBMS_LOCK JSON_KEY_LIST
DBMS_LOGREP_UTIL JSON_OBJECT_T
DBMS_LOGREP_UTIL_INVOK PLITBLM
DBMS_SHARED_CAPTURE_INTERNAL STREAMS$_CAPTURE_PROCESS
DBMS_SHARED_CAPTURE_IVK WRM$_DATABASE_INSTANCE
Documented No
First Available 23ai
Pragmas SUPPLEMENTAL_LOG_DATA(default, UNSUPPORTED_WITH_COMMIT);
Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to the EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE and OGG_SHARED_CAPTURE roles.
Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmscap.sql
{ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/prvtbcap.plb
Subprograms
 
CONFIGURE_SERVICE (new 23ai)
Configures the shared capture service based on the input parameters

Parameters must be in JSON format, for example:'{"max_workers" : 3, "change_table_retention_TIME" : 15}'

Valid parameters: MAX_WORKERS,
CHANGE_TABLE_RETENTION_TIME and existing capture parameters like MAX_SGA_SIZE, PARALELISM, etc.
dbms_shared_capture_adm.configure_service(
num_instances      IN BINARY_INTEGER DEFAULT NULL,
capture_parameters IN VARCHAR2       DEFAULT NULL);
exec dbms_shared_capture_adm.configure_service(1, '{"max_workers" : 3}');

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
DISABLE_SERVICE (new 23ai)
Disable shared capture service which must be run in the root container dbms_shared_capture_adm.disable_service;
exec dbms_shared_capture_adm.disable_service;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
ENABLE_SERVICE (new 23ai)
Enable shared capture service which must be run in the root container dbms_shared_capture_adm.enable_service(tablespace_name IN VARCHAR2);
exec dbms_shared_capture_adm.enable_service('USERS');

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
START_SERVICE (new 23ai)
Start shared capture service

This procedure only starts the capture if there is no registered PDBExtract
dbms_shared_capture_adm.start_service;
exec dbms_shared_capture_adm.start_service;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
STOP_SERVICE (new 23ai)
Stop shared capture service

Force must be true when there is a registered PDB Extract
dbms_shared_capture_adm.stop_service(force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);
exec dbms_shared_capture_adm.stop_service(TRUE);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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