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Alfresco – Documents not searchable when uploaded via REST-API?

It’s a pretty common (and should be known) issue in Alfresco but even to this day, it still happens that enterprises contact us because of documents that cannot be found. The installation in question is a docker-compose for Alfresco Community(…)

User Adoption Strategies for M-Files: Lessons Learned

Implementing M-Files is never just a technical project. It’s a journey through an organization’s operations that we take with each customer. As consultants, we often find that the success of an M-Files deployment hinges not on(…)

You still need reliable and tested backups for your Oracle databases!

How to test your Oracle RMAN backups(…)

APEX IR Subscriptions #JoelKallmanDay

Interactive Reports allow to send their content per e-mail on a regular basis thanks to the subscription feature. But this can also raise some security concerns. Let’s see how to bring some kind of control into the game… Requirements We(…)

Convert Oracle non-CDB database to CDB with AutoUpgrade

Since Oracle 21c, the non-CDB architecture has been deprecated. This means that all Oracle databases must now adopt the multitenant architecture (CDB + PDB). Thankfully, Oracle provides a powerful utility to ease this transition: AutoUpgrade. In this post, I’ll walk(…)

Using Oracle API for MongoDB on OCI

If you’ve ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you’ve probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In response to this, Oracle (and others) use(…)

Oracle OEM Holistic Patch

The Concept Starting with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 13.5 RU24 (October 2024), Oracle introduced the Holistic Patch for OEM — a unified patching model that consolidates several separate updates into a single coordinated package. Previously, administrators had to patch: *(…)

RAG Series – Adaptive RAG, understanding Confidence, Precision & nDCG

Introduction In this RAG series we tried so far to introduce new concepts of the RAG workflow each time. This new article is going to introduce also new key concepts at the heart of Retrieval. Adaptive RAG will allow us(…)

How to check if my Oracle dbhome is RO or RW?

As you might know, RO (Read Only) dbhome was introduced in Oracle 18c and became default configuration in Oracle 21c. Oracle came back with RW (Read Write) dbhome as default configuration in 23ai. It might be interesting to know how(…)

Possible to relocate a PDB on ExaCC with move option?

In some of my previous blogs, I showed how we were migrating on-premise databases to the ExaCC using Oracle ZDM at one of our customer. I also explained in some article how it was important in some case to relocate(…)