Database management

Oracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5?

Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup).

First steps on Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Do you know this query language?  No, it’s time to explain you and see what it is.   “A Kusto query is a read-only request to process data and return results.” dixit Microsoft Documentation here The KQL(…)

Oracle 21c : Two nodes Grid Infrastructure Installation

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 21c is actually released in the cloud, and I did some tests to setup a Grid infrastructure cluster with two nodes. I used following two VM servers to test racp1vm1 racp1vm2 Below(…)

PostgreSQL High Availability: Patroni, Ectd , HAProxy , Keepalived

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patroni is one the most famous tool that can be used to setup a high avalaibilty for PostgreSQL. In this blog I am describing a test I did. Below the environment we will(…)

How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?

Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust(…)

Oracle 21c: Blockchain Tables

Oracle Blockchain Tables With Oracle Database 20c/21c the new feature Oracle Blockchain Tables has been introduced. Blockchain Tables enable Oracle Database users to create tamper-resistant data management without distributing a ledger across multiple parties. Database security can be improved by(…)

How to quickly download the new bunch of 21c Oracle Database documentation?

Last month, Oracle released its new 21c version of the database documentation. At that time, I was looking for a quick mean to get all the books of this so-called 21c Innovation Release. I could remember I used a(…)

Oracle 21c Security : Mandatory Profile

By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 21c, it is now possible to enforce a password policy (length, number of digits…) for all pluggable databases or for specific pluggable databases via profiles. This is done by creating a mandatory profile in the(…)

Oracle 21c Security : Gradual Database Password Rollover

By Mouhamadou Diaw Starting with Oracle 21c, a password of an application can be changed without having to schedule a downtime. This can be done by using the new profile parameter PASSWORD_ROLLOVER_TIME This will set a rollover period of(…)

Oracle 21c Security : ORA_STIG_PROFILE and ORA_CIS_PROFILE

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog I was testing the creation of a new Oracle 21c database. In this blog I am talking about two changes about the security. In each new(…)