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Remote syslog from Linux and Solaris

By Franck Pachot . Auditing operations with Oracle Database is very easy. The default configuration, where SYSDBA operations go to 'audit_file_dest' (the 'adump' directory) and other operations go to the database may be sufficient to log what is done but(…)

How to fix your own SQL plan in Oracle ?

Method to build and fix your own SQL plans in Oracle and then you want to fix it for all next executions of the SQL by your application (thanks to SPM). In this post I show how fix a plan(…)

ADWC new OCI interface

By Franck Pachot . A few things have changed about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service recently. And I've found the communication not so clear, so here is a short post about what I had to do to start the(…)

Change Data Capture from Oracle with StreamSets Data Collector

By Franck Pachot . With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase.

Disabling database trap with dataguard broker

When connecting to dataguard broker and disabling database with ORACLE_SID set before connecting to broker, broker becomes inaccessible, which is shown below: Login to broker via database ila: oracle [ILA@p03] /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome_1/dbs : dgmgrl / DGMGRL for Linux:(…)

How to flashback databases in dataguard with broker

Last week I had to do some tests with dataguard. To make restores easier restore points were required. Given is following configuration: show configuration; Configuration - ila Protection Mode: MaxAvailability Databases: ila - Primary database(…)

PostgreSQL 11 : Procedures are coming

By Mouhamadou Diaw Reading about new features about future version PostgreSQL 11. I see that procedures will be implemented. Why is it so important? Until now only functions are available in PostgtreSQL. Of course a function is a procedure that(…)

Installing MAMP to play with PHP, MySQL and OpenFlights

By Franck Pachot . You may wonder what I'm doing with those technologies that are completely different from what I usually do. I'll detail in a future blog post but the idea is giving a short introduction to databases to(…)

SQLcl connect target depends on previous connection

By Franck Pachot . I thought it was a bug for two reasons: first, because I don't like that my connect destination depends on the context, and then because it is a different behavior than in SQL*Plus. But finally, it(…)

OpenShift on my Windows 10 laptop with MiniShift

By Franck Pachot . If you want to play with OpenShift on your laptop, you can, in a Virtual Machine. I have VirtualBox installed on my laptop. I'll install Minishift here, which will create the VM to run OpenShift with(…)