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PostgreSQL Index Suggestion With Powa
A few time ago my colleague Daniel did a blog about POWA. In a nice article he shown how this tool can be used to monitor our PostgreSQL. In this present article I am going to show how this powerful...
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VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud
The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting to...
View ArticleArchivelog deletion policy on Data Guard configuration
The deletion policy on a dataguard configuration should be: CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO APPLIED ON ALL STANDBY; for the site where you don’t backup. It can be the standby or the primary....
View ArticleDatabase is more than persistence. It is shared. My thoughts about...
The development teams often see the database as a ‘persistence layer’ only. And sometimes it is mentioned that the database is always the cause of the problems, especially when implementing continuous...
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2017.pgconf.eu started, and look who is there …
So, finally 2017.pgconf.eu started today and while checking the schedule I noticed something that I could not even imagine some years ago. There is a session from Microsoft: Latest update on Azure...
View ArticleStandbyFileManagement is set to MANUAL : Don’t panic
As you may know the parameter STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT enables or disables automatic standby file management. When automatic standby file management is enabled, operating system file additions and...
View ArticleMax PDBs in Standard Edition
Here is a small warning. In Standard Edition, you may expect that the features that are not available for your edition are blocked, but in 12.2 you can create more than one PDB in Standard Edition, and...
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2017.pgconf.eu, some impressions
After we survived the EDB Postgres Rocks cafe on Tuesday, Wednesday was packed with interesting sessions. Especially listening to Robert Haas is always fun and interesting. Getting information directly...
View ArticleNew installed Fusion Middleware 12C Reports or Forms WebLogic Servers fails...
We installed a Fusion Middleware report and Forms 12.2.1.2.0 on a Linux Server. This was a single node Reports and Forms servers. After disabling the Non SSL Listen Port, we get below error in logs...
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Configuring Fusion Middleware 12C Reports Server with Single Sign On and...
Most of the time when the Reports Server is configured with an Single Sign On Server, it uses the same external LDAP server as the Single Sign On Server. In our case, we used an Oracle Access Manager...
View ArticleAre temporary tables auto vacuumed in PostgreSQL?
While doing the EDB quiz at their booth last week at pgconfeu one of the questions was: Are temporary tables auto vacuumed? What do you think? My first thought was yes, but lets see. The first question...
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Dbvisit replicate – SQL Developer chart
Here is a quick SQL Developer report which display a chart about the Dbvisit replicate lag over the last hours The idea is to have the following chart showing the lag in MINE and APPLY processes. Here...
View ArticleEnable Trusted Content Services (TCS) license in Documentum Content Server
The Trusted Content Services is a pack of features that you can enable/purchase to gain more security for your Content Server. The main key features are listed in this documentation:...
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PASS SUMMIT 2017 – SQL Server Security
Today is the first day of the PASS SUMMIT 2017 in Seattle (WA). The weather is cloudy and we have only 11°C… but where is the problem? Everything happens inside! (at the Convention Center). In this...
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Pass Summit 2017
Today starts the Pass Summit 2017 taking place in Seattle. After a small fly over the Ocean, more than 10 hours… yesterday, and a nice jet lag which avoid me to sleep later than 4AM this morning, I...
View ArticleAre large objects supported in PostgreSQL 10 logical replication
Another interesting topic that popped up last week during pgconfeu: Are large objects supported with logical replication in PostgreSQL 10? The only truth is a test, isn’t it? Lets go… Obviously we need...
View ArticleQuick history on database growth
AWR collects segment statistics, and this can be used to quickly understand an abnormal database growth. Here is a script I use to get, from the AWR history, the segments that have grown by more than...
View ArticleCan I have the same table published and subscribed (bi-directional) in...
When you start using PostgreSQL 10 logical replication you might think it is a good idea to setup bi-directional replication so you end up with two or more masters that are all writable. I will not go...
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Multitenant dictionary: what is consolidated and what is not
The documentation says that for Reduction of duplication and Ease of database upgrade the Oracle-supplied objects such as data dictionary table definitions and PL/SQL packages are represented only in...
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Multitenant internals: INT$ and INT$INT$ views
This month, I’ll talk – with lot of demos – about multitenant internals at DOAG conference. The multitenant dictionary architecture starts with a simple idea: system metadata and data are in CDB$ROOT...
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