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Rebuild index on increasing values after deletes?
Yesterday while giving our Oracle tuning workshop I discussed with the customer about a job they have that rebuilds indexes every Sunday. Except in very rare cases Oracle indexes are maintained so that...
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Variations on 1M rows insert (1): bulk insert
I think you already have read the interesting series of blog posts of my colleagues Franck and Daniel about inserting on 1 million rows for Oracle and PostGreSQL. So it's time to write the first of the...
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Alfresco: some useful database queries
In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to databases (tables, fields,...
View ArticleD2 performance issues due to KB3038314 IE patch
I ran into a strange issue by a customer. When trying to open a huge VD on the D2’s right panel the browser freezes. It seems to be due to an Internet Explorer security patch. It is introducing huge...
View Articlebulk loading semi structured data in postgresql
The last post took a look at how to efficiently load 1m rows into a table in PostgreSQL. In this post I'll take a look on how to do the same with semi structured data.
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Kerberos SSO for Documentum CS 6.7 SP1
In a previous post, I shared some tips to configure the Kerberos SSO with Documentum D2 3.1 SP1. Since that day, I worked on different projects to also setup the Kerberos SSO on some other components...
View ArticleVariations on 1M rows insert (4): APPEND_VALUES
In the first variation I did a bulk insert with the PL/SQL FORALL statement. A comment suggests to add the APPEND_VALUES hint that appeared in 11gR2. APPEND_VALUES hint does the same than APPEND but...
View Articlewhat will be coming with the next major version of postgresql ?
A PostgreSQL major version is usually released once a year. For the next major version, which is 9.5, this probably will be in the second half of 2015.
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SharePoint 2016: What’s new? And What to expect?
The Ignite Event took place in Chicago last week. According to what has been presented, here are the first news about the new SharePoint 2016! SharePoint 2016 looks like an enhancement of the existing...
View ArticleVariations on 1M rows insert (2): write commit
In this blog post, I will try to do the same than my colleagues about Oracle and for PostgreSQL. As a reminder, we’ve seen in my previous blog post that SQL Server is designed to commit transactions...
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Get SQL Server Network Configuration with PowerShell
This blog is part of a set which try to automate the SQL Server administration with PowerShell. It explains how to retrieve the network configuration of a SQL Server instance with PowerShell. I will...
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Microsoft Project Management Tools: SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013
Project Management? Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or...
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News SharePoint 2016: new alternative to InfoPath Forms
Microsoft announced in January 2015 that it was the END OF INFOPATH, that the 2013 version would be the last one. However, Microsoft updated the Infopath 2013 app will work with SharePoint Server 2016....
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Using VSS snapshots with SQL Server - part I
 This is probably a series of blog posts about some thoughts concerning VSS snapshots with database servers. Let’s begin with this first story: Some time ago, I implemented a backup strategy at one of...
View ArticleMatching SQL Plan Directives and extended stats
This year is the year of migration to 12c. Each Oracle version had its CBO feature that make it challenging. The most famous was the bind variable peeking in 9iR2. Cardinality feedback in 11g also came...
View Articledoes impdp into a compressed table really compress data?
Today at a customer we discussed the following scenario: To refresh a test database a datapump export and import was implemented. To save space on the test system the idea came up to compress the data...
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Kerberos configuration for DFS 6.7 SP1
In my last post, I explained how to configure Kerberos for a CS 6.7 SP1. Unfortunately if you only configure the Content Server, it will almost be useless... If you want this configuration to be...
View ArticleMatching SQL Plan Directives and queries using it
This is another blog post I'm writing while reviewing the presentation I'm doing next week for SOUG and next month for DOAG. You have SQL Plan Directives used by several queries that have same kind of...
View Articletmux - an alternative to screen
You may already use screen for multiplexing a terminal. This is especially useful when you want to start long running processes on a server and do not want to loose the connection because of a ssh...
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Migration of QlikView Services
QlikView is a product of the software company named Qlik (previously known as QlikTech) which was designed to provide business intelligence & visualization capabilities using reports or dashboards....
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