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IOUG Collaborate 18
The IOUG Collaborate 18 is now done. I presented 2 sessions there: From Transportable Tablespaces to Pluggable Databases The introduction comes from a 5 minutes talk at Oracle Open World 2016 in the...
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Managing SQL Server sa credentials with Docker secrets on Swarm
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a MSSQL Server docker image in a context of Hidora, a swiss cloud provider based on jelastic and for Docker-based applications. When writing my jps manifest file...
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Oracle 18c clone PDB and Transparent Data Encryption
Let’s do some tests with the Oracle 18c new feature in creating PDB clone with DBCA. Unfortunately, this feature does not work when you have TDE enabled. Just to remember, with Oracle 12.2 we had the...
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ADWC: Creation of Autonomous Database Cloud service
You want to try the Autonomous Database Cloud Service? That’s easy. Here is a Step-by-Step. Cloud Credits First, you need Cloud Credits. You may have bought them (any recent negotiation with Oracle...
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ADWC: start/stop with PSM Command Line Interface
In the previous post, I explained how to create an Autonomous Data Warehouse with PSM (PaaS Service Manager Command Line Interface). The most common operation you want to do with it is starting and...
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Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 2
In this part of the blog posts series, we will show how ansible helps us to configure our cluster and install all pre-requisite needed for Cloudera Manager. Ansible is one of the most important...
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How uid mapping works in Docker containers?
It can be interesting to see how uids between the docker host and docker containers are mapped. For example, for security concerns. As a reminder, docker containers are based on two linux kernel...
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Load Balancing with Docker Swarm mode and SQL Server containers
Docker swarm mode provides an easy way to publish ports for services. Indeed, in this mode all nodes participate in an ingress routing mesh and accept connections to any service port published. Thus,...
View ArticleADWC – a Docker container to start/stop Oracle Cloud services
In the previous post, I’ve explained how to start and stop the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service from PSM (PaaS Service Manager). There’s a setup phase, and a run phase starting with...
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SQL Server Security: Are your databases ready for the GDPR?
The GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation), voted in 2016, will be applied in the European Union soon (May 25, 2018). We heard a lot of this new directive. The goal is to improve the protection and...
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ADWC – the hidden gem: Zepplin Notebook
In the previous blog posts I explained how to create, and stop/start the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service. And I didn’t show yet how to connect to it. It is easy, from sqlplus or SQL Developer,...
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idql and its column output
idql and its column output A few days ago, I was reading an interesting blog from distinguished colleague Clemens Bleile with the title “sqlplus and its column output” (link here...
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Some ideas about Oracle Database on Docker
This is not a ‘best practice’ but just some ideas about building Docker images to provide an Oracle Database. I started with the images provided by Oracle:...
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SQL Developer Web on the Oracle Cloud
You like SQL Developer because it is easy to install (just unzip a jar) and has a lot of features? Me too. It can be even easier if it is provided as a web application: no installation, and no java to...
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SP2 for SQL Server 2016 is available with new helpful DMVs
Last month (April 24, 2018), the Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2016 was released and distributed. This Service Pack has new DMVs, already available in SQL Server 2017 RTM. In this article, I will just...
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Deploying EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift
In this post we’ll look at how we can deploy EnterpriseDB containers in MiniShift. When you need to setup MiniShift have a look here. In this post we’ll do the setup with the MiniShift console, in a...
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ADWC – connect from your premises
In the previous post about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Service, I’ve run queries though the Machine Learning Notebooks. But you obviously want to connect to it from your premises, with SQL*Net. Of...
View ArticlePDB RMAN backups available after plugging in on a new CDB with Oracle 18c
With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB...
View ArticleConfiguring WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3 Diagnostics Framework policies and actions
Configure a Policy-action (new name for watch-notification) to send a JMX notification when the monitored WebLogic Server is having stuck threads or high memory usage. We will use a simple JMX...
View Article12c upuserxt.lst, upobjxt.lst & Oracle Maintained objects/users
Mike Dietrich has blogged recently about upuserxt.lst and upobjxt.lst and how to query them with external table. The first time I’ve seen those ‘.lst’ files, the default extension for sqlplus spool...
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