Database management

AWS – RDS – SQL Server Native backups

Introduction RDS provide automatic backup feature. This feature will backup the entire RDS instance. As a DBA sometimes you need to backup individual database, they are many reason for that (legal, migration, replication,…). Unfortunately individual database backups are not available(…)

pgBackRest – a simple privileges-related issue

I recently had to replace Barman by pgBackRest as Backup & Recovery solution for one of my customer. The purpose of this blog is not to show how I made the setup (some(…)

Dbvisit – Switchover failing with ORA-00600 error due to Unified Auditing been enabled

I have been recently deploying dbvisit version 9.0.10 on Standard Edition SE2 18.7. Graceful switchover failed with error : ORA-00600: Interner Fehlercode, Argumente: [17090], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [],[], [] (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)(…)

Applying archive log on a standby is failing with error ORA-00756: recovery detected a lost write of a data block

During one last ODA project, I was deploying dbvisit software version 9.0.10 on Oracle database SE Edition version 18.7. From time to time I was getting lost write of a data block with type KTU UNDO on the standby. Through(…)

6 things Oracle could do for a better ODA

Introduction With the latest ODA X8 range, at least 80% of the customers could find an ODA configuration that fits their needs. For the others, either they can’t afford it, either they are already in the(…)

Use MABS to protect Hyper-V on-premises VMs workload

During my last blog post I explained how to installed a MABS. Now that your infrastructure is setup you will be able to protect the workload of your Hyper-V Virtual Machines. You have first to create a new protection(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: which storage capacity to choose?

Introduction If you’re considering ODA for your next platform, you surely already appreciate the simplicity of the offer. 3 models with few options, this is definitely easy to choose from. One of the other benefit is also the hardware support(…)

The evolution of MySQL authentication mechanism

The authentication, the first level of security for each IT system, is the stage to verify the user identity through the basic username and password scheme. It is crucial to have a mechanism to protect and secure password storing and(…)

ODA 19.6 is available

Introduction It’s been 1 year now that 19c is available on-premise. Finally, 19c is now available today on ODA too, in a real production release. Let’s have a glance of what’s inside. Is 19.6 available for my old ODA? The(…)

How to run Avamar backup on SQL Agent Job with PowerShell

By one of our customer we use Avamar for the backup and restore solution. I was asked by this customer to find a solution to run Avamar backups for a group of databases on a specified instance. In fact,(…)