Database management

Oracle Database Appliance 19.12 Deployment

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog I am describing the deployment of an ODA with the version 19.12 Following patches will be needed -Patch 30403643: Oracle Database Appliance ISO Image -Patch 30403673: Oracle Database Appliance Grid Infrastructure Clone(…)

First contact with OCI’s Autonomous Database

Introduction Benefits of going into the Oracle Cloud (OCI) are clear for most of us: no more datacenter and hardware to manage. But what else? On OCI, you can also decide to get rid of part of the DBA tasks(…)

From Oracle Standard Auditing to Oracle Unified Auditing

In this post, I will not show you all advantages related to Oracle Unified Auditing. For that, read the oracle documentation. You can also read the blogs written by my colleagues : Oracle 12c Unified Auditing Feature in(…)

Exadata X9M release

I would like to share some personal thoughts. September 28th 2021, Oracle released the eleventh Exadata data machine called "X9M-2" (2 CPU sockets), X9M-8 (8 sockets) and ZDLRA X9M. Exadata is a computing platform to run Oracle RDBMS, zero data(…)

How to find the TLS used for the SQL Server connection

For a customer, I do some research to find which TLS is used on the SQL Server environment. The only way is to create an Extended Event. A big limitation is that the event used is only available on SQL(…)

How to view and change SQL Server Agent properties with T-SQL queries

Few days ago, after a reboot, we had this warning on the Agent Error Logs on many servers: Warning [396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined – OnIdle job schedules will have no effect(…)

Auto Upgrade of non CDB to PDB with autoupgrade.jar in Oracle 21c

Since Oracle 21c it is possible to convert the non CDB database into a PDB directly during the upgrade using the Oracle Autoupgrade Tool. This is an important enhancement, because with Oracle 21c the non CDB architecture is desupported,(…)

SQL Server: Using Client Statistics to validate a query regression after a change in the database compatibility level

Few days ago, I have very poor performance on a database that I migrate from SQL 2012 to SQL 2019. The developer Team asks me to upgrade the number of CPU and the Memory to have better performance.

ODA: Quickly solve ILOM and BIOS update errors

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is sometimes quite tough and you often struggle to solve failures at different steps. Regarding ILOM and BIOS patching errors, a simple workaround is possible. Errors when patching ILOM and/or BIOS This is(…)

Deploying a KVM-based virtualized X8-2M ODA

Introduction Until now, High-Availability (HA) ODAs could have been deployed either in bare metal or in virtualized mode. Virtualized mode means that instead of installing a classic Linux system on the nodes, an OVM hypervisor (based on Xen) was deployed.