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ODA, network interface and configure-firstnet
Deploying new ODA X7-2S or 2M, I have been curious how configure-firstnet would interact with the fiber and copper ethernet network interfaces. Reading documentation on the web, I could not clearly...
View ArticleLogical standby: No view for data guard status on session level
On logical standby you have to switch off data guard at least on session level to make modifications on objects which are maintained by data guard. This is done by command alter session disable guard;...
View ArticlePatching ODA lite to 12.2.1.4.0
Here is how to apply the latest patch for your ODA. As usual the Oracle documentation is not 100% accurate. I applied this patch on 2 ODAs X7-2M previously deployed in 12.2.1.2.0, no intermediate patch...
View ArticleA password() function for dmgawk
A few days ago, as I was preparing a dmawk script for a presentation, I stumbled against another unexpected error. The script was attempting to connect to a docbase by providing a docbase name, a user...
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Hitachi Content Intelligence deployment
Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) is a search and data processing solution. It allows the extraction, classification, enrichment, and categorization of data, regardless of where the data lives or what...
View ArticleUpgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure from 12.1.0.2.0 to 12.2.0.1.0
The following blog will provide the necessary steps to upgrade the Grid Infrastructure from 12.1 to 12.2, for a Standalone Server. One of the new features of GI 12.2 is the usage of the AFD (Oracle...
View ArticleDocumentum – Silent Install – Things to know, binaries & JMS installation
Documentum introduced some time ago already the silent installations for its software. The way to use this changed a little bit but it seems they finally found their way. This blog will be the first of...
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Oracle 18c preinstall RPM on RedHat RHEL
The Linux prerequisites for Oracle Database are all documented but using the pre-install rpm makes all things easier. Before 18c, this was easy on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) but not so easy on...
View ArticleDocumentum – Silent Install – Docbroker & Licences
In a previous blog, I quickly went through the different things to know about the silent installations as well as how to install the CS binaries. Once the CS binaries are installed, you can...
View ArticleWhen does PostgreSQL create the table and index files on disk?
A question that pops up from time to time is: When we create a table or an index in PostgreSQL are the files on disk created immediately or is this something that happens when the first row is...
View ArticleCatching interface state changes with Network Manager
Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is...
View ArticleHow much free space can be reclaimed from a segment?
You have the feeling that your table takes more blocks than it should? Here are the queries I use to quickly check the free space. The idea is to call DBMS_SPACE.SPACE_USAGE and infer the minimum space...
View ArticleNew installed Fusion Middleware Reports or Forms WebLogic Servers fails to...
We installed a Fusion Middleware reports and Forms 12.2.1.2.0 on a Linux Server. Those are single node Reports and Forms WebLogic Servers. After disabling the Non SSL Listen Port, we got the below...
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Backing up and restoring EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift
The last blogs in the series are already some days old: Setting up MiniShift, Deploying EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Customizing PostgreSQL parameters in EDB containers in...
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MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN: a join method or a join type?
I’ll present about join methods at POUG and DOAG. I’ll show how the different join methods work in order to better understand them. The idea is to show Nested Loops, Hash Join, Sort Merge Join, Merge...
View ArticleUsing Oratcptest
Last day I did some tests with Oratcptest. This a command line tool which can be used to measure network bandwidth and network latency between client and server. In this blog I am going to show how to...
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ATP vs ADW – the Autonomous Database lockdown profiles
The Oracle database has always distinguished two types of workloads: transactional (OLTP) and datawarehouse (VLDB, DWH, DSS, BI, analytics). There is the same idea in the managed Oracle Cloud with two...
View ArticleTRANSPORT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT and RETRY_COUNT
When you have a Data Guard configuration, you want the application to connect to the right server, where the primary is, without taking too much time. The default TCP timeout is 1 minute which is too...
View ArticleDocumentum – Silent Install – Docbases/Repositories
In previous blogs, we installed in silent the Documentum binaries as well as a docbroker (+licence(s) if needed). In this one, we will see how to install docbases/repositories and by that, I mean...
View Article18c runInstaller -silent
You find two different ‘runInstaller’ under an Oracle Home. The old one, the Oracle Universal Installer, in $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin. And the new one, in $ORACLE_HOME directly. They have the same name but...
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