Database Administration & Monitoring

opatchauto and “java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError”, Topology creation failed when applying 12.1.0.2.170418 PSU

Yesterday I had fun with Opatch again. We wanted to apply the latest PSU (12.1.0.2.170418) on top of a 12.1.0.2 GI without any patches applied: xxxxx@xxxxx:/disk00/app/12.1.0/grid_2_4/diagnostics/ [+ASM2] opatch lsinv Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.8 Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation.

Personal road trip – PowerShell Conference EU 2017

Welcome to PowerShell Conference EU 2017 Started on April, 5th at 9:00 AM, I was immersed in a wonderful and amazing Open Ceremony among light effects and an epic music. Indeed, using PowerShell is always an epic moment…(…)

Upgrade to Oracle 12.2 with dbupgrade utility

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 12.2 is released and we will have to upgrade. And in this blog we are going to talk about upgrading to oracle 12.2 using the dbupgrade utility. Of course the dbua tool is still available and(…)

Grid Infrastructure Installation on SLES 12 SP1

This week I needed to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 1 in a SLES 12 SP1 environment. Everything worked fine until I ran the root.sh at the end of the installation. Here’s a quick description of the problem and(…)

What is in a transportable tablespace dumpfile?

By Franck Pachot . On 31st of May in Düsseldorf, at DOAG Datenbank, I'll talk about transportable tablespaces and pluggable databases. Both methods are transporting data physically, the difference is in the transport of the metadata,(…)

Oracle 12cR2 : Optimizer Statistics Advisor

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(…)

PostgreSQL on a Pure Storage All Flash Array – Populating PostgreSQL

Just be clear this is not a performance test as we had to connect the Pure Storage box through 1GB/s interfaces. Basically it is more about how you can interact with the storage system (command line & web interface) and(…)

Testing new PostgreSQL features before alpha/beta/rc releases

A long time ago I blogged on how you can use the PostgreSQL development snapshots to test new PostgreSQL features before alpha/beta/rc releases are officially released. Another way to do this is to use(…)

PostgreSQL on a Pure Storage All Flash Array – Preparations

Yesterday we got a Pure Storage All Flash Array for testing. As the name implies this is all about Flash storage. What makes Pure Storage different from other vendors is that you don't buy just a storage(…)

Oracle OGG JAGENT 12.2 installation for GoldenGate monitoring using the Cloud Control plugin

This post is mainly for self documentation as I have to search my old notes every time I want to do this (I am faster by searching on our blog :) ): If you want to monitor GoldenGate with Cloud(…)