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What is a database backup (back to the basics)
By Franck Pachot . TL;DR: do not consider a dump (like PostgreSQL pg_dump or Oracle expdp) as a database backup do not consider that your backup is successful if you didn’t test recovery databases...
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Control-M/EM Manage job’s submission by using the ctm_pause utility
Hi everybody, Introduction Today a quick trick to pause job submissions on Control-M sometimes it can be useful, during some operations or investigations related to Control-M behavior, to avoid job...
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Oracle Restart 19c and ACFS
In this blog we are going to install an Oracle Restart 19c with ASM Filter Driver (AFD). I am using following configuration -Oracle 19c -Oracle Linux Server 7.6 -Kernel 4.14.35-1902.2.0.el7uek.x86_64...
View ArticleODA 19.9 software release is out
Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the...
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Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure for a cluster
In this previous blog , we deal with Oracle Restart and ACFS. We saw that using ACFS with Oracle Restart will require some manual tasks. The solution is to install a Grid Infrastructure for a cluster,...
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Getting started with SQL Server on Linux containers with Docker Desktop and WSL2
In this blog post, I will show you the steps I went through to run SQL Server inside a Linux Docker container on my Windows 10 laptop. The aim here is to deploy quickly and easily SQL Server instances...
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Control-M-EM check and update agent status using CLI
Introduction Hi everybody, sometime access to CCM may be limited or unavailable,so how can it be possible to manage Control-M agent status without GUI?What about using Control-M CLI utility?Here is the...
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Control-M/EM CTM5323 security protection violation , delete folder XXXXXX
Introduction Hi team!Today we will check how to solve this error. Problem: When trying to delete a folder even with emuser you have an error “CTM5323 security protection violation , delete folder...
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Control-M/EM Logon issue when connecting to the CCM Cannot get UTF8 locale
Introduction Hi everyone,today we will see how to fix a logon issue I have encountered when I installed one of my Control-M lab. Kind of tricky issue ,as you can log into the local client GUI without...
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Control M/ EM Send Mail and Alert Window notification with HHMMSS format with...
Introduction During my various tasks at work , it was sometimes and for many reasons , asked by users to have more precisions in jobs notifications sent by mail. First of all, displaying the jobname ,...
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Jenkins how to create a cyclic job
Introduction Hi everybody Today it’s not about Control-M jobs but about Jenkins jobs ,Jenkins allows you also to schedule jobs and below we will see how to make it cyclic. First , we will create a job...
View ArticleGetting started with Exasol – Distribution keys
After the previous posts about Exasol, which have been more around installation, administration, backup & restore, loading data and general notes around transactions and sessions we’ll now go into...
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What is EDB?
Last few days I played around with EDB tools. In this Blog I will introduce you to EDB. What is EDB? PostgreSQL is Open Source and has no owner. The owner of PostgreSQL is the community itself. That...
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NoSQL and SQL: key-value access always scale
By Franck Pachot . I have written about some NoSQL myths in previous posts (here and here) and I got some feedback from people mentioning that the test case was on relatively small data. This is true....
View ArticlePatching Oracle Database Appliance to 19.9
ODA 19.9 has just been released for Bare Metal yesterday, and I had the opportunity to already patch a customer production ODA to this latest version. Through this blog I wanted to share my experience...
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PostgreSQL in AWS: clearing the doubts
By Franck Pachot . I’ve heard and read people saying that the PostgreSQL managed service is not the true open-source PostgreSQL from the community. This is wrong and I’m writing this post to clarify...
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Deploy GitLab on Kubernetes using Helm
Over the last years GitLab became one of the most popular and powerful open source git source code platform. From pure source code repository to a DevOps platform, it’s interesting to see how GitLab...
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Swiss Cloud Provider: Exoscale
Background More and more companies are moving from on premise hosting to cloud hosting. There are many justifications to move to the cloud, but also also many justifications not to move to the cloud....
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Oracle Grid Infrastructure on Windows With 2 Nodes
Oracle Grid Infrastructure can be also installed on Windows server. In this blog I am explaining how this installation can be done. I am going to install an environment with to nodes. Oracle 19c is...
View ArticleLoading data from S3 to AWS RDS for PostgreSQL
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL comes with an extension that allows you to fetch data from AWS S3 and to write back data to AWS S3. The use case for this is obvious: Either you use other AWS services that write...
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