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Grégory Steulet

All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware

10.01.2015 by Grégory Steulet

You are running Oracle on VMware and are not 100% sure that you are compliant with the Oracle licensing rules? This article is for you! As I have been confronted several times with Oracle License reviews with VMware installations, I(…)

Application integration & Middleware

MySQL versions performance comparison

26.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

This blog aims to make a performance comparison between the different MySQL versions/editions and also comparing the differents MySQL forks such as Percona Server and MariaDB. Indeed number of improvements as been done to innodb storage engine in the last(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Taskset: a useful tool to set CPU affinity

10.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

Today at the #ukoug_tech14 I had the chance to attend to the Christo Kutrovky’s session @kutrovsky (Pythian) about “Measuring Performance in Oracle Solaris & Oracle Linux”. This session aimed to present how to measure(…)

Operation systems

FIO (Flexible I/O) – a benchmark tool for any operating system

08.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

I have just attended an interesting session held by Martin Nash (@mpnsh) at UKOUG 14 – Liverpool: “The least an Oracle DBA Should Know about Linux Administration” . During this session I(…)

Database management

Security improvements in MySQL 5.7

30.11.2014 by Grégory Steulet

If you have a look on the last mysql 5.7.4 version or later you will probably see that there are several security improvements. The list of added security features and improvements can be seen on the following page: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html(…)

Database management

Oracle AVDF – Database Firewall Policies

27.11.2014 by Grégory Steulet

The successful deployment of a Database Firewall depends on an effective policy. Oracle AVDF includes preconfigured firewall policies as described in the Firewall Policy page in the Policy tab of the Audit Vault Server console. These include policies that log(…)

Database management

Oracle AVDF post-installation configuration

13.11.2014 by Grégory Steulet

In one of my last blog, named: “Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 12.1 – installation on VirtualBox” I explained how to install AVDF on VirtualBox. Since some of you asked for a blog on “How to(…)

Database management

MySQL high availability management with ClusterControl

13.09.2014 by Grégory Steulet

Installing and managing a highly available MySQL infrastructure can be really tedious. Solutions to facilitate database and system administrator’s task exist, but few of these cover the complete database lifecycle and address all the database infrastructure management requirements. Severalnines’ product(…)

Operation systems

Oracle Database 12c New Features: Uninstaller encapsulated into installation media

10.12.2013 by Grégory Steulet

Among the Oracle 12c new features there is the addition of an uninstall tool encapsulated in the Oracle database binaries. There is no more the necessity to download the deinstallation tool for Oracle products (deinstall utility). In this blog I(…)

Database management

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 12.1 – installation on VirtualBox

08.11.2013 by Grégory Steulet

This blog explains how to install Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 12.1.1.1.0 on VirtualBox step-by-step. The configuration will be covered in a second blog. Download AVDF Binaries First of all, download the binaries on support.oracle.com: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/patch/PatchDetail.jspx?_afrLoop=140865428570210&patchId=16965974&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=1a5l4hvifo_4 Patch(…)