Reduce the complexity: be sharing and open source
By Franck Pachot . I thought that my last post on this blog was the previous one but I blog when it comes to my mind – nothing planned. And two things got me to write this. First, last week we got our...
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SQL Server SCOM Alert Analysis: The Average Wait Time of SQL instance “xxx”...
I have an interested alert on SCOM for SQL Server by a customer two weeks ago. In the SCOM interface, the warning on the server is MSSQL2016: The Average Wait Time of SQL instance “xxx” on computer...
View ArticleConnecting to Repositories with the Same Name and/or ID
A rare but recurrent issue that customers sometimes encounter is to how to connect to each one of distinct repositories with the same name or same docbase id, or even both if one repository is a clone...
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SQL Server 2019: What’s new in sp_configure and sys.configurations options?
SQL Server 2019 added new options in sp_configure and sys.configurations. First, how can we find the difference between these SQL Server Versions. This simple query will give us the number of options...
View ArticleDocumentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck
Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong...
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Documentum – E_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR on D2-REST Product page related to GUAVA...
At a customer, the D2-REST (16.5.1) application hosted on WebLogic Server 12c started showing 500 Internal Server Errors, after a customer release including many things. The error was rather simple to...
View ArticleNew predefined roles for PostgreSQL 14
Time is moving fast and PostgreSQL 14 is already in beta 2. PostgreSQL 14 will ship with a lot of new features and in this post will look at a smaller one: There are three new predefined roles:...
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SQL Server: Fixing another huge MSDB database – 80GB+
I have blogged several times about unusually large MSDB databases like here. Most of the time the problem comes from the backup history which is never purged. This time it’s different. Try to guess, if...
View ArticleCreating simple extensions for PostgreSQL
When you are using PostgreSQL you should already know that PostgreSQL comes with a set of extensions by default. It might be that you need to install an additional package if you installed PostgreSQL...
View ArticleWhat are these *.ready and *.done files for in PostgreSQL?
When you run PostgreSQL workloads in production you must have a backup and restore implementation. Even for development instances, which are like production for the developers, a well-tested backup and...
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SQL Server 2019: What’s new on database scoped configuration options?
SQL Server 2019 added three new options in sp_configure and sys.configurations. First, how can we find the difference between these SQL Server Versions. This simple query will give us the number of...
View ArticleSetup pgpass for replication
This script provides functionality to setup passwordless authentication in PostgreSQL for defined Server Names. This is very helpful by using replication via repmgr and is not Linux Distribution...
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SQL Server: table variables performance limitations
Doing some performance troubleshooting for one of my customers I identified some issues with very large table variables inside Stored procedures. Table variables limitations are not well understood by...
View ArticleAutomate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell (part 2)
As promised during my last Rubrik blog post I’m writing a second one to explain how to: log your different steps in a file add an integrity check after the restore and also improve my first scripting I...
View ArticleCreating an Oracle Snapshot Copy PDB on top of ASM
Creating a snapshopt copy Pluggable Database (PDB) on top of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is not possible, because you need to have a filesystem which supports sparse files. According the...
View ArticleManage ODA patching with Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby
Introduction Building an Oracle infrastructure today without thinking about a Disaster Recovery solution (DR) is quite rare. This became obvious that a backup or a dump will not help if you do not know...
View Articleodabr tool : how to resolve efi device backup failure?
During all my ODA projects where I need to perform patching operation, I’m using odabr tool. This tool is really easy to use and well designed. It offers the possibility to create snapshot on the /,...
View Articleoracle update-dcscomponents failure during ODA patching to 19.11
You might know that since ODA 19.10, the ODA metadata database is now stored in a MySQL database and not in the apache derby database any more. During a patching to 19.10 or 19.11 from a release...
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SQL Server SCOM database: A lot of errors 777970008 in the errorlog file
Few weeks ago, during a audit, I have a lot of error 777970008 in the errorlog file from the SCOM instance. All 5 minutes, we had 4 lines more in the ErrorLog and the file growth a lot. After using...
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SQL Server: “Cannot resolve the collation conflict” in a Stored Procedure
This week I have a new little challenge by a customer. By executing a “standard” stored procedure, I have the error: Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Procedure Get_logsessions, Line 56 [Batch Start Line...
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