Documentum – FT – Document not found using search from D2
At a customer, I received an incident saying that on D2 a document is found by browsing and not found using normal search. The root cause seems to be easy: The Document isn’t indexed?! Not really, you...
View ArticleSUSE Experts Day Zürich
On May 16th I visited the SUSE Experts Day in Zürich. An interesting Agenda was waiting for me, all under the topic: “My kind of open” After a small welcome cafe, SUSE started with the Keynote of the...
View ArticleTon nuage n’attends que toi
Après plusieurs formations offertes par dbi services chez différents fournisseurs de service Cloud et plusieurs retours d’expériences, je suis enthousiaste quand à l’évolution des technologies du...
View ArticleCan you start two (or more) PostgreSQL instances against the same data...
As PostgreSQL does not know the concept of running multiple instances against the same files on disk (e.g. like Oracle RAC) it should not be possible to start two or more instances against the same...
View ArticleSecurely store passwords in PostgreSQL
Every application somehow needs to deal with passwords. Some use external authentication methods such as ldap, others us the the framework the database already provides and create users and roles. But...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 12: Control when generic plans are used
When you are using prepared statements in PostgreSQL you might get a custom or a generic plan. Custom plans come with overhead of re-planning while generic plans avoid re-planning of the statement. A...
View ArticleDocumentum – DOCUMENTUM_SHARED is dead?
In June last year, I did my first manual installation (so without docker) of Documentum 16.4 and I was testing it with PostgreSQL. I quickly realized that there were some changes in Documentum and,...
View ArticleWhat to do in case all active Documentum jobs are no more running ?
The application support informed me that their jobs are not running anymore. When I started the analysis, I found that all activated jobs did not start for a few weeks. First of all, I decided to work...
View ArticleWebLogic – JAVA_HOME in WebLogic, a nightmare?
Everybody knows Java but not everybody loves Java. With everything Oracle is currently doing regarding Java, I can’t say I’m blaming them… But that’s not the topic of this blog! hurrah. Well actually...
View ArticleWebLogic – Upgrade of Java
If you are used to Java, you probably know that there are really important security fixes published every quarter in the Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) and it’s really important to keep it up to...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 12: New partition reporting functions
PostgreSQL 10 introduced declarative partitioning (with some limitations), PostgreSQL 11 improved that a lot (Updating the partition key now works in PostgreSQL 11, Insert…on conflict with partitions...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (1): Preparing the data set
This is the start of a series about partitioning in PostgreSQL. For this and the following posts I will use PostgreSQL 12 (which currently is in beta) so some stuff might not work if you are on...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (2): Range partitioning
Now that the data set is ready we will look at the first partitioning strategy: Range partitioning. Usually range partitioning is used to partition a table by days, months or years although you can...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (3): List partitioning
In the last posts of this series we prepared the data set and had a look at range partitioning. In this post we look at another partitioning strategy: List partitioning. Instead of partitioning by a...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (4): Hash partitioning
The last partitioning strategy we will look at is: hash partitioning. If you missed the first posts in this series here they are: PostgreSQL partitioning (1): Preparing the data set PostgreSQL...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (5): Partition pruning
This is the next post in the PostgreSQL partitioning series. If you missed the previous ones here they are: PostgreSQL partitioning (1): Preparing the data set PostgreSQL partitioning (2): Range...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (6): Attaching and detaching partitions
Having talked about partitioning strategies and partition pruning this time we will have a look on how you can attach and detach partitions to and from an existing partitioned table. If you missed the...
View ArticleDiscover target database 18c with EM12c
Working on Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.4 version at a client’s site, we would like to know if oracle database target in 18c version could be discovered and monitored, even if Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.4...
View ArticlePostgreSQL partitioning (7): Indexing and constraints
Yesterday we talked about attaching and detaching of partitions. Today we will look at indexing and constraints when it comes to partitioned tables. If you missed the last posts, again, here they are:...
View ArticleWhy ODA reimaging doesn’t work on the first try?
Introduction Reimaging an ODA is a good practice for a lot of reasons. To make your ODA cleaner if it’s running for many years and if you patch regularly. To simplify patching because if you’re late...
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