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ORA-00438: … Option not installed

In an Oracle database where Real Application Testing (RAT) is not installed, the following statement throws ORA-00438: Real Application Testing Option not installed:

begin
   dbms_workload_capture.start_capture (
      name     => 'capture-test-1',
      dir      => 'CAPTURE_TEST',
      duration => NULL
   );
end;
/

The following query shows that RAT is not installed, indeed:

select value from v$option where parameter = 'Real Application Testing';

Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php:78 Stack trace: #0 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(78): PDOStatement->execute(Array) #1 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(30): insert_webrequest_('/notes/developm...', 1758206646, '216.73.216.150', 'Mozilla/5.0 App...', NULL) #2 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/httpsdocs/notes/development/databases/Oracle/errors/ORA-00438_Option-not-installed(48): insert_webrequest() #3 {main} thrown in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php on line 78

ORA-00438: … Option not installed

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