SUMA Server Part 2
In my previous Blog I wrote how to install and configure SUSE Manager. In this Blog I will go more in the deep like repository management and PXE boot configuration. Configuring repository To...
View ArticleOracle Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded(3)
By Franck Pachot . This extends a previous post (Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded) where, in summary, the ideas were: When you gather statistics, you want the new executions to take into account the...
View Article[Data]nymizer – Data anonymizer for PostgreSQL
Often there is the requirement to populate a test or development database with data from production, but this comes with a risk: Do you really want, that developers or testers have access to sensitive...
View ArticleSQL Server: Control the size of your Transaction Log file with Resumable...
Introduction In this blog post, I will demonstrate how the Resumable capability of Online index rebuild operation can help you to keep the transaction log file size under control. An index rebuild...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5?
Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional...
View ArticleAutomate CNOs and VCOs for SQL Server AAG
During the installation of a new SQL Server environment in a Project, we wanted to automate the whole process deployment and configuration when installing a new SQL Server Always On Availability Group...
View ArticleBe careful with prepared transactions in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL gives you the possibility for two-phase commit. You’ll might need that if you want an atomic distributed commit. If you check the PostgreSQL documentation there is a clear warning about...
View ArticleOracle Blockchain Tables: COMMIT-Time
Oracle Blockchain Tables are available now with Oracle 19.10. (see Connor’s Blog on it), they are part of all editions and do not need any specific license. I.e. whenever we need to store data in a...
View ArticleDelphix: a glossary to get started
By Franck Pachot . dbi-services is partner of Delphix – a data virtualization platform for easy cloning of databases. I’m sharing a little glossary to get started if you are not familiar with the terms...
View ArticleJENKINS installing Artifactory plugin and fix dependencies issue
Hi everybody As I planned to show you how to use Artifactory in next blog topic , we need to install it through plugin management. During this I faced some issues.Below we will check how to fix it....
View ArticleHow to configure additional listeners on ODA
Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently...
View ArticleJENKINS installing Artifactory server and add it to your Jenkins master
Hi everybody As promised in my previous post on Artifactory plugin here is the installation guide to use Artifactory with your Jenkins master.First we need to check the prerequisites and then after...
View ArticleRancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node
If you want to play with Rancher you have several options, as outlined in the documentation. There are quick starts for the major public cloud providers (using Terraform), you can install it on a Linux...
View ArticleSUSE RANCHER 2.5 – Monitoring Setup
In this short blog post, I will discuss about SUSE Rancher 2.5, the latest version. In this release, the rancher-monitoring has been introduced. With this cool feature, you can quickly deploy...
View ArticleAWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2
By Franck Pachot . On the AWS free tier, you can run a t2.micro instance for 750 hours per month during the first 12 month after sign-up date. And currently, until June 2021, you can also run a...
View ArticleRancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes
In the last post we’ve brought up a RKE Kubernetes cluster on a single node. While that is cool for demonstration purposes or testing, this is nothing for a real life setup. Running the control pane,...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out
Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will...
View ArticleRancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup
The is the next post in this little Rancher series. After we installed a single node RKE cluster and extended this configurtation to three nodes we will finally install Rancher in this post. As Rancher...
View ArticleRancher on SLES 15 as a demo environment
If you followed the last posts (Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node, Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes and Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup) about Rancher,...
View ArticleAWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2 with newer GCC
By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I have run PostgreSQL on AWS m6gd.2xlarge (ARM Graviton2 processor). I didn’t precise the compilation option and this post will give more details following this...
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