Alfresco Clustering – Solr6
In previous blogs, I talked about some basis and presented some possible architectures for Alfresco, I talked about the Clustering setup for the Alfresco Repository, the Alfresco Share and for...
View ArticleSparse OVM virtual disks on appliances
For some reason, you may need to sparse OVM virtual disks in an Oracle appliances. Even though that feature is present trough the OVM Manager, most of the Oracle appliances doesn’t have any OVM Manager...
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Feedback on the EMEA Red Hat Partner Conference 2019 in Prague
A few weeks ago I attended the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference for the first time. The Red Hat Conference took place in Prague from June 25th to 27th. If you are interested in Open Source technologies...
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SQL Server 2019: Java in SQL Server hard to believe, no?
It has already been a few months that we are testing the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2019. I already blogged about a previous version of SQL Server supporting R and Python. With the new...
View ArticleEDB EPAS 12 comes with interval partitioning
While community PostgreSQL 12 is in beta quite some time now (currently in beta 3) it usually takes some time until EDB EPAS will be available on top of the next major PostgreSQL release. Yesterday EDB...
View ArticlePatching or reimaging your ODA?
Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of...
View ArticleUpgrading from OpenLeap to SLES15
Sometimes business plans change and maybe you need to move your OpenLeap 15 Server to the supported version SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. Upgrade is getting really easy with version 15. It can be...
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Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA
Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux...
View ArticleAlfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’
In a recent project on Alfresco, I had to setup a Clustering environment. It all went smoothly but I did face one single issue with the setup of the Clustering on the Alfresco Share layer. That’s...
View ArticleDocumentum – Encryption/Decryption of WebTop 6.8 passwords ‘REJECTED’ with...
Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I...
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Debugging SQL Server containers considerations
When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I...
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Scripting is not Just a Series of Commands
I saw, several times now, scripts were it is just a series of commands, sometime just created with copy/paste and few changes. This is far from best practices in terms of readability, maintainability...
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POUG Conference 2019
POUG (Pint with Oracle users group) organized his annual conference on 6-7th September in Wroclaw in New Horizons Cinema. My abstract about “MySQL 8.0 Community: Ready for GDPR?” was accepted, so I had...
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Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2019 RC1 was released out a few weeks ago and it is time to start blogging about my favorite core engine features that will be shipped with the next version of SQL Server. Things should not...
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Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions
Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting. As expected a lot is around OpenShift 4 and automation with...
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Moving oracle database to new home on ODA
Moving database to new ORACLE_HOME is a common dba task. Performing this task on an ODA will need an additional step knowing ODA Lite is using an internal Derby database for the metadata. ODA HA will...
View ArticleRMAN in a Multitenant Environment
The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery...
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How to get a big picture of K8s pods and PVs by script
A couple of weeks ago, during an internal dbi services workshop about Docker and K8s, I got an interesting question: is it possible to get a big picture of pods connected to one specific persistent...
View ArticleODA X8-2: the new generation
Introduction ODA X7-2 marked the maturity of the Oracle Database Appliance evolution, with 3 models suitable for nearly all customers using Oracle databases. The X7-2M was my favorite, with a lots of...
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OpenShift 4.1 Partner Introduction Day
Today was the OpenShift Partner Introduction Day by RedHat. This event happened at Lausanne There were people with different backgrounds. After presenting the RedHat compagny, the speaker explained...
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