Database Administration & Monitoring

OUD – Oracle Unified Directory 11.1.2.3 Backups Tips and Tricks

By William Sescu Backing up an OUD consists of several components The OUD software itself The OUD back end data The OUD configuration The OUD logical export as a ldif file However, in this post I would like to take(…)

Can I do it with PostgreSQL? – 10 – Timezones

This post is inspired by a question we received from a customer: In Oracle there is the sessiontimezone which returns the time zone of the session. Asking for the time zone of the session in Oracle returns(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 3 – Adding another standby

In the first and second post in this series we did the basic pgpool setup including the watchdog configuration and then did a simple setup for automatically failover from a PostgreSQL master instance in case it(…)

JAN17 Proactive Bundle Patch + Adaptive Statistics control

By Franck Pachot . If you have to create a new database now (I'm writing this in March 2017) for a migration of OLTP database with minimal risks of regression, I would recommend: The latest patchset of Oracle Database 12cR1(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 2 – Automatic failover and reconfiguration

In the first post of this little series we did the basic setup of pgpool and configured the watchdog. So, as of now, pgpool uses a VIP which is active on one of the(…)

SQL Server 2016: Does Dynamic Data Masking works with INSERT INTO and SELECT INTO commands?

I wonder how works Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) with these two commands INSERT INTO  and SELECT INTO. First, I create a table and add some “sensitive data”: USE [DDM_TEST] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Confidential]( [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY(…)

Purging Unified Audit Trail in 12cR2

By Franck Pachot . A good thing from 12.2 is that the implementation of Unified Audit Trail has changed a little. It was stored in a weird CLI_SWP$ table but now we have a normal partitioned table named AUD$UNIFIED. In(…)

Oracle 12cR2 on Windows: Virtual Accounts

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 is released for Windows, just 2 weeks after the Linux release, and this is a very good news. Let's see something new you will encounter in the first screens of Oracle 12.2 installer.

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 1 – Basic setup and watchdog configuration

I have written some posts on how you can make your PostgreSQL deployment high available by using PostgreSQL's streaming replication feature in the past ( 1, 2 ). The main issue you'll have to(…)

10th CH Exadata Community Meeting

By William Sescu Yesterday (15th of March), the 10th Switzerland Exadata Community Meeting took place. It was not a meeting only about Exadata, but also about the Oracle Database Appliances which became more and more popular. It is interesting, how(…)