Starting an Oracle Database when a first connection comes in
To save resources I thought about the idea to start an Oracle database automatically when a first connection comes in. I.e. if there are many smaller databases on a server, which are not required...
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AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 4 – Changing parameters
If you followed that last posts about DB Parameter Groups, Subnet Groups and Setting up the RDS instance you should have a running RDS instance. You should also be aware that changing parameters can...
View ArticleFind the SQL Plan Baseline for a plan operation
By Franck Pachot . If you decide to capture SQL Plan Baselines, you achieve plan stability by being conservative: if the optimizer comes with a new execution plan, it is loaded into the SQL Plan...
View ArticleDocumentum – DA fail to load if accessed after D2 because of ESAPI
In some specific cases, you might have faced an issue where Documentum Administrator is loading properly but then suddenly it’s not working anymore and all you did in between was accessing D2. I don’t...
View Article“Segment Maintenance Online Compress” feature usage
By Franck Pachot . On Twitter, Ludovico Caldara mentioned the #licensing #pitfall when using the Online Partition Move with Basic Compression. Those two features are available in Enterprise Edition...
View ArticleDocumentum – xPlore installer refuses to start because of ‘Multiple launches’
While working with xPlore, you might have faced before a message saying that an xPlore installer refused to start because it is not allowed to run multiple instances at the same time. This could have...
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Oracle Support: Easy export of SQL Testcase
By Franck Pachot . Many people complain about the quality of support. And there are some reasons behind that. But before complaining, be sure that you provide all information. Because one reason for...
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티베로 – The most compatible alternative to Oracle Database
By Franck Pachot . Do you remember that time where we were able to buy IBM PC clones, cheaper than the IBM PC but fully compatible? I got the same impression when testing Tibero, the TmaxSoft...
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AWS Certified Database Specialty
Here is my feedback after preparing and passing the AWS Database Specialty certification. There are tips about the exam but also some thoughts that came to my mind during the preparation when I had to...
View ArticlePatching ODA from 18.3 to 18.8
Introduction 19c will soon be available for your ODAs. But you may not be ready. Here is how to patch your ODA from 18.3 to 18.8, the very latest 18c release. This patch has here been applied on X7-2M...
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How to run Avamar backup on SQL Agent Job with PowerShell
By one of our customer we use Avamar for the backup and restore solution. I was asked by this customer to find a solution to run Avamar backups for a group of databases on a specified instance. In...
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How Windows Admin Center can backup on Azure
To be honest I never used before Windows Admin Center but after some hours of utilization I’m still convinced. As SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool to manage our SQL Server instances with a...
View ArticleODA 19.6 is available
Introduction It’s been 1 year now that 19c is available on-premise. Finally, 19c is now available today on ODA too, in a real production release. Let’s have a glance of what’s inside. Is 19.6 available...
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AWS Aurora IO:XactSync is not a PostgreSQL wait event
By Franck Pachot . In AWS RDS you can run two flavors of the PostgreSQL managed service: the real PostgreSQL engine, compiled from the community sources, and running on EBS storage mounted by the...
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AWS Aurora vs. RDS PostgreSQL on frequent commits
This post is the second part of https://blog.dbi-services.com/aws-aurora-xactsync-batch-commit/ where I’ve run row-by-row inserts on AWS Aurora with different size of intermediate commit. Without...
View ArticleMigrating From Oracle Non-CDB 19c to Oracle 20c
With Oracle 20c, the non-multitenant architecture is no longer supported. So, people will have to migrate their databases to container if they want to use Oracle 20c. There are many methods to...
View ArticleDocumentum Upgrade – Corrupt Lockbox with CS 16.4
A couple months ago, I was working on an upgrade project from Documentum 7.x to 16.4. During this upgrade, I faced a few issues so I will try to write some blogs about all that in the coming weeks,...
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Control M / EM configure GUI display to dissociate each environment
Hi everybody, today this quick topic will show us how to dissociate easily your different Control M environments. Introduction: In your daily activity on Control M, you may work on many Control M...
View ArticleDocumentum Upgrade – Duplicate JMS and ACS config objects
I have seen several times in the past duplicate JMS and/or ACS objects created by OpenText (and Dell/EMC before) installers. I opened several tickets with the OpenText Support over the past 4/5 years...
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Recover data from Azure backup
During my last blog-post I experienced to use Azure backup to protect an on-premise Windows server. To recover data from Azure backup we need to use the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services console...
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