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Database Administration & Monitoring

SHELL SCRIPTING: improve DBA scripts readability using J2 templates

27.02.2023 by Alexandre Nestor

Quering database's by using SQL in shell scripts can make the whole script unreadable. Very oftent the query is unredable too, due to the variable usage. This situation make the script debugging a pain. Templating simplify the script by taking(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle TDE part II : Encrypting Data

23.02.2023 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw In the first part of this blog, we activate TDE in the database, in this part we will see how we can encrypt data. I am using Oracle 19c for the tests As specified before TDE(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle TDE part I : Configuring the Encryption

23.02.2023 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle gives us some tools to secure our data in transit and in rest. Oracle Transparent Data Encryption will allow us to encrypt data in rest. Oracle TDE need The Oracle Advanced Security License Oracle TDE(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

The Option -applyRU of runInstaller

18.02.2023 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw RU, MRP should be applied to database home as soon as possible. Usually we often nstall the base version and after install the RU on top on the base version For example we want to have(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle 21c Gradual Password Rollover : Tracking old password usage

17.02.2023 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog, I talked about the new feature in Oracle 21c, which allows an old and new password to be valid during a period of time. This feature, Gradual Database(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

TimescaleDB

15.02.2023 by Joël Cattin

Introduction TimescaleDB is a “time-series” database (TSDB). This kind of databases are optimized for storing, manipulating and querying time-series data. But… what is time-series data ?Time-series data is a collection of metrics (regular) or measurements (irregular)(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Migrating Non-CDB to Multitenant

14.02.2023 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dealing these last days to database migration with a customer, I write this blog to describe the main tasks The context is to migrate databases to a new infrastructure. Below the configuration Source : Linux Suse(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

PostgreSQL 16: More I/O statistics

14.02.2023 by Daniel Westermann

PostgreSQL is already tracking various kinds of statistics which can help in identifying bottlenecks. Some of these statistics are available in the the pg_statio_* catalog views: postgres=# select viewname from pg_views where viewname like '%statio%'; viewname -------------------------- pg_statio_all_sequences pg_statio_all_tables pg_statio_sys_tables(…)

Cloud

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

13.02.2023 by David Carroll

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

SHELL SCRIPTING: improve DBA scripts readability using J2 templates

More compression options for pg_dump in PostgreSQL 16

Oracle TDE part II : Encrypting Data

Oracle TDE part I : Configuring the Encryption

The Option -applyRU of runInstaller

Oracle 21c Gradual Password Rollover : Tracking old password usage

TimescaleDB

Migrating Non-CDB to Multitenant

PostgreSQL 16: More I/O statistics

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)