Docker – Docker for Windows 10 installation
Hi team! For some purposes I had to install Docker on my Windows lab, I know my colleagues are used to install it on Linux , but what about Windows?So let’s take a look on it! Prerequisites: a Windows...
View Articlelog4shell: how to analyse and mitigate
This post is about two security vulnerabilities reported on log4j 2.x framework: CVE-2021-44228, scored 10 of 10 points in CVSS VERSION 3.1 RISK, and CVE-2021-45046, scored 3.7 points. Determine...
View ArticleControl-M /EM – How to manage Control-M utility restriction for Remote hosts
Hi team, today we will see how to restrict the Control-M utility when using your remote hosts. we will perform a quick test to show how it works before the modification , then after. first of all ,we...
View ArticleElastic (ELK) Stack – Get Started
ELK Stack or more recently called Elastic Stack, is a combination of three open-source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. All these projects have been developed by Elastic and used to store,...
View ArticleUpgrade AHF and TFA on an ODA
TFA (Trace File Analyzer) is part of AHF (Autonomous Health Framework). Those tools are preinstalled and part of ODA (Oracle Database Appliance). As you might know patching and upgrading are normally...
View ArticleElastic (ELK) Stack – Elasticsearch Terminologies
In a previous blog, we got an overview on Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beets), in next blogs I will go through all these components to understand them, today we will go more in...
View ArticleSQL Server: Cannot execute as the database principal “dbo” does not exist
By a customer this month, I see a very big big ErrorLog file (more than 1,5GB). When I open the file, every 5 seconds, the following message is added: The activated proc...
View ArticleSQL Server: msdb too big with the table dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail
Today, I was by a new customer and the I see that the msdb data file was over 4GB. A little too big… To see which table are so big, in SSMS, I select the msdb database, right-click, go in...
View ArticleExadata Cloud at Customer: Considerations for Backup & Recovery
Working in a project where the customer migrates from an on-premises environment to Exadata Cloud at Customer provides insights about the decisions to take and what to consider when using the Exadata...
View ArticleMacOS: Reduce fan noise when using Microsoft Teams
The Laptop I’m using for the business is a MacBook Pro, model 2019 (2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7). I’m thankful to be able to choose the Hardware and OS of my business laptop at dbi services. We have...
View ArticleElastic (ELK) Stack – Set up Elasticsearch
After we made a global overview on Elastic Stack and we went more in deep in Elasticsearch terminologies. This third blog in the Elastic Stack series will allow you to know how to set up Elasticsearch,...
View ArticleParallelize your Oracle INSERT with DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE
One of the challenge of all PL/SQL developers is to simulate the Production activity in a Non Prod. environment like for example different Insert executed by several sessions. Different tools exist...
View ArticleScript to calculate the network latency between the application and the...
By Clemens Bleile Network latency is crucial for applications, especially if lots of “row by row”-processing (some call it “slow by slow”-processing) is used by the application or if lots of data is...
View Articleopatch hangs while patching OEM 13.4. concerning the log4j-vulnerability
By Clemens Bleile To address the log4j-vulnerability I recently had to fix the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4.-installation for a customer. REMARK: Please check the following link for details...
View ArticleJBoss EAP 7 – Cluster in Domain mode
It is time to show you how to build a cluster with Domain mode within JBoss EAP 7. Before you read this blog I suggest you to review the following blogs: JBoss terminologies, the Domain architecture...
View ArticleAWS CLI tips and tricks
When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just...
View ArticleAlfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min
I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services...
View ArticleDocumentum – Applying Content-Security-Policy (CSP) on D2 while using WSCTF...
If you have ever been working on a sensitive Documentum environment (they are all sensitive, are they not?!), you might already have worked on hardening your Web Servers. One of these aspects is to...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Flexible Server on Azure, Status
This Blog is about the actual status of the development on Microsoft’s side for the Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL. The Flexible Server is announced “GA Ready” at November 30st, after shiftig the...
View ArticleOracle 21C Security : diagnostics_control and enable diagnostics
Some debug-events and debug-actions are not safe and should be exposed to users with caution. In previous releases, privilege control for the usage of these diagnostics was not sufficient. With Oracle...
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