odacli create-database fails on ODA X7-2HA with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Today I was onsite at my customer and he told me: I can no longer create databases on my ODA X7-2HA, every time I try to use odacli create-database it fails, please help. Ok, let’s check what happens,...
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OEM Cloud Control 13c – Agent Gold Image
Introduction I am currently setting up a new “Base Image” virtual machine (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6) which will be used to create 6 brand new Oracle database servers requested by a customer....
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DockerCon18 Barcelona – Day 2
Tuesday was the second day in Barcelona for the DockerCon18. We attend the first general session in the morning. It was a mix of presentations, live demos and the participation of Docker big customer...
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DockerCon18 Barcelona – Day 3
Wednesday was the last day of the DockerCon18 Europe. Like the previous day, we started the journey by a keynote of 2 hours, more oriented “Docker Community”, the core message of the keynote, the...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 12 : New option –socketdir for pg_upgrade
PostgreSQL 12 is under development but tests can be done. Steps to install this version can be found in this dbi blog . Many thanks to Daniel. While reading the documentation I found that there is a...
View ArticlePostgreSQL : Get my database server name
I was looking for a build-in function to get the hostname of the server hosting my PostgreSQL cluster. But seems that there is no build-in function. Looking in the extensions, I find the extension...
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First immersion in the Docker Conference EU 2018
In short, a very interesting event for both Devs and Ops. Every day was organized around workshops, hands-on-labs sessions and Hallway tracks. My colleague Mehdi Bada and I tried to attend as much...
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Foglight
As many Oracle Database Administrators, I am a regular user of Oracle Enterprise Manager in order to monitor or administer my client’s databases. I am lucky because most of them have the diagnostic...
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Transparent Data Encryption – Certificate in master database: is it really a...
As encryption solution in SQL Server, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is simple and quick to set up. That’s why this is a common encryption mechanism. TDE encrypts data with a certificate at the page...
View ArticleUnderstand Oracle Text at a glance
What is Oracle Text? Oracle Text provides indexing, word and theme searching, and viewing capabilities for text in query applications and document classification applications. Oracle text activation...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Application Streams
You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming with this new...
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Deploying SQL Server on K8s with Helm charts
During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm is a...
View ArticlePAM Authentication With PostgreSQL
PostgreSQl supports many authentication methods. The PAM authentication method operates similarly to password except that it uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) as the authentication mechanism....
View ArticleODA : Free up space on local filesystems
Introduction When you work on ODA you sometimes get struggled with local filesystem free space. ODA has terabytes of space on data disks, but local disks are still limited to a raid-1 array of 2x 480GB...
View ArticleEDB Failover Manager 3.3 With Virtual Ip Address
In a previous blog , I talked about installing and configuring Edb Failover Manager with PostgreSQL. The configuration of a Virtual Ip Address was not discussed in this previous article.In this blog I...
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Azure SQL Managed instances, Business Critical Tier and high availability
Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud...
View ArticleODA: The Patch version must be 12.2.1.4.0
When trying to patch your virtualized ODA with patch 12.1.2.12.0 and immediately after that with 12.2.1.4.0, you might consider to load the patches like this: [root@XX1 Oracle_Soft_Repo]# oakcli unpack...
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Using Ansible to bring up a three node Patroni cluster in minutes
Automation is key today, nobody wants to do the same tasks over and over and again. Cloud without automation is not even possible. There are several tools around that help with automation and one of...
View ArticleHow to build a dummy resource plan
Often switching off resource plan feature of Oracle database is desired. Unfortunately setting parameter RESOURCE_MANAGER_PLAN to empty string does not help, because it does not disable switching to...
View ArticleDocumentum 7+ internal error during installation or upgrade...
This blog will go straight to the topic. When upgrading/installing your content server to 7+, you may experience an internal error with a popup telling you to look into a file called something like:...
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