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GoldenGate distribution path profile in 23.26.4.0.0
In a previous post about updating the profiles of all extracts and replicats at once, I wrote that a profile does not apply to distribution paths. With GoldenGate 23.26.4.0.0, that is no longer true. When looking at the help of ADD DISTPATH in the adminclient, it shows a new PROFILE clause: A distribution path or a receiver path can now…
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Copy big dumpfiles between firewall zones
If you have to transfer a big Oracle DataPump export (dumpfiles) from one firewall zone to another, it is often not possible to transfer it directly from the source- to the destination-host. Instead, you have to transfer it to a jumphost (or your laptop), then from there to the destination host. But this is not optimal. You’ll need to store…
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applyOps and manual oplog replay for MongoDB PITR
mongorestore –oplogReplay gives you point-in-time recovery for a whole instance, replayed from the captured oplog of a single backup. It has no equivalent for a single database or a single collection. Say you need “restore just this one collection to 4:35pm” instead of the whole instance. The supported tooling has nothing to offer for in-place namespace point-in-time recovery (PITR). The…
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Governing AI agents in ECM: Who is really in control?
In my previous article, M-Files AI: From Intelligent Metadata to AI Agents, I explored how AI in Enterprise Content Management has evolved. We have progressed from automatically classifying documents and suggesting metadata, to AI that can understand information, answer questions and reason about business context. Increasingly, it can also perform tasks. This evolution is exciting! Imagine an AI agent that…
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The real OPEX cost of the wrong open source choice
Free to download, expensive to run Open source is not free! The licence is, but the hours your team spends making it work are not. At dbi services we love open source. We run PostgreSQL, Kafka and Kubernetes for many customers and we contribute where we can. But over the last years I see the same story again and again:…
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GoldenGate captures TRUNCATE on a global temporary table and the replicat abends
In an extract report, I noticed that the CREATE and DROP of a global temporary table were excluded (OGG-10473), while the TRUNCATE of the same table was included (OGG-00487). If the extract writes the TRUNCATE to the trail but not the CREATE, the replicat will try to apply it on a target where the table does not exist. The replicat…
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AI meets OEM, use native OEM MCP server
I have recently been configuring and testing Oracle AI Database Assistant integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai Release 1 Update 10, to interact with the Oracle Management Repository (OMR) using natural language prompts. It is time now to test the MCP server integrated with OEM 24ai Release 1 Update 12. In this blog, I will show you how I configured…
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Oracle AI Database Assistant showing “No metrics data were found”
I have already blogged on how to setup Oracle AI Database Assistant available since Enterprise Manager 24ai Release 1 Update 10, and also blogged doing some tests. For some prompts I was getting the error “No metrics data were found”. In this blog, I would like to explain how I resolved the problem. Problem description Running for example the prompt:…
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Manual local controller firmware update during ODA Patching
I was recently patching several Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X11-2-HA at customer from 19.26 to 19.30 and then finally to 19.32. During one patching hop I faced an issue where /root became full. One of the consequences was that I had to manually patch local controller firmware. Through this blog I would like to share with you my experience about…
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Name resolution of Oracle
This blog post is a follow-up of TNS_ADMIN – which *.ora files Oracle will use. There, the main focus was to find out if a running database instance will use a TNS_ADMIN environment or the binary defaults. In this blog post we will analyze much more the internal mechanisms to find the *.ora files, which offered a few surprises. You…
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tnsping with Oracle instant-client?
The instant client For an application server that connects to Oracle, you probably would not like to install gigabytes of a full Oracle client software? For that, Oracle offers the so-called “Instant Client” you can download for free at oracle.com. It is available for different platforms and in different package formats (rpm, zip, …) There are different components you can…
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