Database Administration & Monitoring

StandbyFileManagement is set to MANUAL : Don’t panic

By Mouhamadou Diaw As you may know the parameter STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT enables or disables automatic standby file management. When automatic standby file management is enabled, operating system file additions and deletions on the primary database are replicated on the standby database.

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

PostgreSQL Index Suggestion With Powa

By Mouhamadou Diaw A few time ago my colleague Daniel did a blog about POWA. In a nice article he shown how this tool can be used to monitor our PostgreSQL. In this present(…)

SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 New Features

Regularly, Microsoft SQL Server comes up with its new features, and in particular SSMS 2017 17.3 in this post, i present you a new feature : Import flat files Wizard How does it works : Open SSMS, and(…)

Changing the LOCALE in CentOS/RedHat 7

What I really don't like is this: Someone wants me to work on a Linux system for whatever purpose and then I get messages like this: postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [pg960final] cat /proc/sysrq-trigger cat: /proc/sysrq-trigger: Permission non accordée or: postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [pg960final] cat /proc/sysrq-trigger(…)

And finally it is there…PostgreSQL 10

What are you waiting for?(…)

udev rules for ASM devices on RHEL 7

Preparing the storage devices for use with ASM is one of the first tasks you should do. When you do not want to use ASMLib then udev is what you should use for this.

Going from SLES12 SP2 to SLES12 SP3, online

SLES 12 SP3 was released some time ago and as we have customers running on that I thought it might be a good idea to test the upgrade from SP2 to SP3. Actually it turned out this(…)

SQL Server 2017 RTM is available: time to try!

Now SQL Server 2017 RTM  is available. 😀 The first step is to go to the Evaluation Center here After completing the registration with your contact information, you download the(…)

SQL Server 2017 on RHEL first installation

Beginning of last week Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for today, the second of October. In the same time, but in a more marketing side, Microsoft announced a SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise(…)