VirtualBox on Mac Host: High CPU utilization for idle VM
Many people in the IT industry do use VirtualBox as a Type-2 Hypervisor to test software in virtual machines. I’m using it with Vagrant on my Macbook Pro 2019 (Intel with Ventura 13.2. when writing...
View ArticleA quick repository creation utility (part I)
Some things never change: gravity, human foolishness, and the length of content servers’ installation time. Indeed, have you ever noticed how long it takes to create a new Documentum repository ? I’m...
View ArticleA quick repository creation utility (part III)
This is part III of the article, see Part I here and Part II here. Creating the seed docbase See dbi services for its source. Hereafter, only some salient steps are presented, refer to the script for...
View ArticleA quick repository creation utility (part IV)
This is part IV of the article, see here for Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here. Instantiating a new docbase See dbi services. Roughly speaking, the instantiation process uncompresses a...
View ArticleA quick repository creation utility (part V)
This is part V of the article, see Part I here, Part II here, Part III here and Part IV here. Timings As said before, absolute timings vary a lot because they depends on many factors, starting with...
View ArticleA generic jdbc tester (part II)
This is part II of the article. See Part I. A tale of 2 Oracle drivers Oracle’s drivers support 2 implementations: the pure java one as used above, also named Thin drivers, with the following URL...
View ArticleData Staging with OMrun – Migration Part1
OMrun is a powerful tool for data staging that allows you to easily load a wide range of file formats like CSV and XML files in databases. This means, OMrun will automatically detect the data...
View ArticleChatGPT vs DevOps
As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested...
View ArticleMigration with Multitenant: how easy it is!
Introduction On Oracle Database, Multitenant feature will be turning 9 in July, but it’s not yet widely deployed as most of the databases are still running on non-CDB architecture. With 19c,...
View ArticleAnsible Event Driven Automation
In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls Gather logs and runtime information Infrastructure as Code with...
View ArticleControl-M/EM How to allow check-in with validation error
Hi everybody Introduction For some test purpose I wanted to export my folders but with some fields missing ( for example the host name or the “run as” field ) but as you know it’s not possible to do...
View ArticleCombine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?
I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster...
View ArticleGitLab Migration and Upgrade
I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release...
View ArticleNew features in OMrun 5.0
We are excited to announce several new features that will be coming with OMrun soon. These features have been developed with the feedback of our customers in mind. In audition we also made a lot of...
View ArticleControl-M /EM Update your job notifications using template
Introduction Hi everybody Today we will see a typical use case you can have during your Control-m tasks.You already know how to update a job using the planning domain and I have made some blogs about...
View ArticleMigration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud...
Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just...
View ArticleControl-M/EM : Run same command on multiple jobs using hostgroup
Introduction: For a specific use case , it was asked to create jobs running same script on 30 agents ,each one defined on its dedicated server. Also depending on the server list ,we had to start jobs...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 16: More I/O statistics
PostgreSQL is already tracking various kinds of statistics which can help in identifying bottlenecks. Some of these statistics are available in the the pg_statio_* catalog views: postgres=# select...
View ArticleControl-M/EM Failed to open archive viewpoint
Introduction Sometimes you need to have information about the execution of Control-M tasks and logs. In particular, when you need to do research, you can use the history area (history pane). In a...
View ArticleMigrating Non-CDB to Multitenant
Dealing these last days to database migration with a customer, I write this blog to describe the main tasks The context is to migrate databases to a new infrastructure. Below the configuration Source...
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