Joël Cattin has more than seven years of experience in database management, specializing in Oracle solutions including Data Guard, RMAN, Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Real Application Clusters (RAC), and APEX development, alongside PostgreSQL and MySQL. He is also experienced with AWS cloud solutions and Ansible-based IT automation. He holds Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Professional, EDB Postgres Advanced Server Certified Professional, RedHat Certified System Administrator, and ITIL V3 Foundation certifications, and leads three InSite Workshops (Oracle Basics, Linux for DBAs, and Ansible). He holds a degree from ESIG Delémont.
The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present Stratis, which is a new local storage-management solution available on RHEL8. Introduction LVM, fdisk, ext*, XFS,… there is plenty of terms, tools and technologies available…
You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming with this new version is the way the applications packages are provided. As you know, up to RHEL7 packages were downloaded via repositories listed in .repo files…
Introduction I am currently setting up a new “Base Image” virtual machine (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6) which will be used to create 6 brand new Oracle database servers requested by a customer. Besides installing and configuring the OS, I also have to install 3 Oracle Homes and one Cloud Control Agent 13c. An OMS13c server already exists including an…
EnterpriseDB is a valuable actor in PostgreSQL’s world. In addition to provide support, they also deliver very useful tools to manage easily your Postgres environments. Among these we can mention EDB Enterprise Manager, EDB Backup & Recovery Tool, EDB Failover Manager, aso… With this post I will present one of the last in the family, EDB Postgres Migration Portal, a…
Although PostgreSQL 10 integrate native logical replication (have a look here or here), it is always interesting to be aware of alternative solutions to the available in-core features. One of those is called pglogical. It’s a Postgres extension developed by 2ndQuadrant, major contributor to PostgreSQL development. The goal of this blog post is to discover how to install pglogical and…
This short blog to share a helpful stuff with the pg_hba.conf file : The pg_hba.conf file is the central configuration file to control client authentication. It is located in the database cluster’s data directory : postgres@ppas01:/u02/pgdata/PG10BETA1/ [PG10BETA1] ll pg_hba.conf lrwxrwxrwx. 1 postgres postgres 59 Jun 30 10:19 pg_hba.conf postgres@ppas01:/u02/pgdata/PG10BETA1/ [PG10BETA1] When you add or modify an entry in this file,…
The Optimizer Statistics Advisor is a new Advisor in Oracle 12.2. The goal of this Advisor is to check the way you gather the statistics on your database, and depending on what is found, it will makes some recommendations on how you can improve the statistics gathering strategy in order to provide more efficient statistics to the CBO. This Advisor…
It’s time to a new blog about partitioning improvement in 12cR2. After auto-list partitioning and multi-column list partitioning & read-only partitions, I’ll demonstrate how we can easily convert a non-partitioned table to a partitioned table…online ! As a reminder, the way to convert a table to a partitioned table were to use the DBMS_REDEFINITION package (since 9i to 12cR1) which…
In my last blog post I presented auto-list partitioning, a new partitioning functionality coming with 12cR2. In this one I will introduce two others : multi-column list partitioning and read-only partitions. Multi-column list partitioning Image : “Oracle Partitioning in Oracle Database 12c Release 2” – Hermann Bär With the first release of 12c it wasn’t possible to create list partitioned…
The second release of Oracle Database 12c (12cR2) comes with new improvements regarding partitioning. In this blog post I’ll show one of them : auto-list partitioning. Auto-list partitioning is an extension of list partitioning. It enable the automatic creation of partitions for new values inserted into the partitioned table. Image : “Oracle Partitioning in Oracle Database 12c Release 2” –…
Following my last blog post about OSWatcher, I will present in this one OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWBBA), which is the tool that you can use to display graphically the data collected by OSWBB. This tool is a Java utility and exists since OSWatcher version 4.0.0. It permits to create graphs and complete HTML reports containing collected OS statistics. …
In this post, I will present a usefull and easy-to-use Oracle tool : OSWatcher. What is it ? OSWatcher Black Box (OSWBB), for its full name, is a free Oracle Tool which will help you to diagnose performance issues on the OS side. Of course, it will not solve the issue for you, but it gives a system health state…
