Windows Server 2016: Introducing stretch cluster functionality
Let’s continue with the new high available functionality shipped with the next Windows version. In my previous blog, I talked about the new site awareness feature that provides more flexibility to...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016: CREATE TABLE for Stretch Database is available
This month, the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for SQL Server is available. With this new version, you can now use the “CREATE TABLE” command for Stretch Databases. If you read the msdn page from CREATE...
View ArticleCloning a PDB to the Oracle Cloud Service
When you create a DBaaS on the Oracle Cloud Service you have only one way to access to your database: ssh with the public rsa key you provide. Then you can open some ports to access the VM. However,...
View ArticleADTS missing profiles
He he, long time no see, ADTS… It has been a long time I didn’t go into trouble with ADTS. As the new 7.2 ADTS is pretty well constituted this time the issue came from me, I admit. Once upon a time I...
View ArticleAlfresco: upgrade your version of Apache Tomcat
Different versions of Alfresco can be installed with different versions of Tomcat. Alfresco provide a default version with its installer but when installing Alfresco manually, an administrator can...
View ArticleAlfresco: cleanup your dev environment
As an Alfresco developer/administrator, you probably already made a few mistakes in your DEV environment while trying to add new features, a custom model or something like that. The result of that...
View ArticleLost in the Cloud? My Cloud vs. My Services
The Oracle Cloud has two interfaces that are very similar visually and it’s easy to get lost and don’t find what we are looking for in the menus. You see the difference: My Account on the left and My...
View ArticleCréer une base Oracle sur le Cloud en quelques clicks
Il n’a jamais été aussi facile de créer une base Oracle. Et ceci grâce au Database as a Service (DBaaS). C’est l’occasion de tester le cloud: Oracle Cloud Service offre une version d’essai de un mois....
View ArticleFixed table automatic statistic gathering in 12c
Before 12c, the fixed stats statistics were not gathered automatically. In 12c this has changed: even when you have never gathered fixed objects statistics you can see that you have statistics for X$...
View ArticleMaintenance scenarios with EDB Failover Manager (1) – Standby node
Recently at a customer we again implemented a PostgreSQL architecture as described some time ago. When we delivered the first draft of the documentation the question popped up how to handle maintenance...
View ArticleOracle kernel relink on Linux: Are my options stored persistently?
I recently visited an Oracle presentation about the Oracle-kernel built-in directNFS (dNFS) driver. To use dNFS in the database you have to enable it: cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib make -f ins_rdbms.mk...
View ArticleSingle-Tenant vs. non-CDB: no reason to refuse it
When non-CDB has been declared deprecated, I was a bit upset because multitenant with a lone PDB just looks like an overhead of 3 containers instead of one. But with experience I changed my mind. First...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016: Introducing Storage Spaces Direct
Have you heard about Storage Spaces introduced by Windows Server 2012? Well, this is a very interesting storage feature that allows us to deal with functionalities like storage virtualization, RAID...
View ArticleStay tuned with kernel parameters
Why does the sysctl.conf value for swappiness on Oracle Linux 7.x not survive a reboot For a project I applied the dbi services best practices for Oracle databases. One of these is to adjust the...
View ArticleDbvisit Standby Version 7 auf Windows Server 2012 R2
Ausgangslage Wie gut lässt sich mit Oracle Standard Edition unter Windows eine Hochverfügbarkeitslösung aufbauen? Die Basis, zwei Windows Server 2012 R2, Oracle Standard Edition und Dbvisit Standby....
View ArticleVM Linux – Device not found : Network unreachable
Recently I exported an Oracle Virtual Box VM as an “.ova” file. When the file was imported again I faced issues with the network devices inside the VM. This post is about what I experienced and how I...
View ArticleTransparently externalize BLOB to BFILE
Storing documents within the database is the easiest, especially because you get them consistent with the metadata stored in the database. If you store them externally, then you need to manage their...
View ArticleThe (almost) same sample schema for all major relational databases (1) –...
The are times when it would be nice to have the same sample schema in all relational databases you or your company are working on. This is great if you want to compare how different databases execute...
View ArticleThe (almost) same sample schema for all major relational databases (2) – Oracle
In the last post we looked at how to install the “Dell DVD Store Database Test Suite” into a PostgreSQL 9.5.2 database. In this post we’ll do the same with an Oracle database. The starting point is...
View ArticleOracle 12C Unified Auditing Feature in a multitenant environment
In oracle 12c we have a new feature called Unified Auditing. What is it, how to implement it, how it works in a multitenant environment that’s what we will try to explain briefly in this article....
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