Database management

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,(…)

SQL Server Tool: MSSQL-CLI

MSSQL-CLI is a useful new command line tool. Not so new because this tool exist since 2018 but a little bit unknow. You find this tool on GitHub here. One of the(…)

AWS Automation – Stop a RDS instance

Introduction I created a RDS SQL Server instance on AWS. I use it for test purpose and to minimize the costs I needed to ensure that my instance is stopped automatically at the end of the working day and also(…)

Speed up datapump export for migrating big databases

Introduction Big Oracle databases (several TB) are still tough to migrate to another version on a new server. For most of them, you’ll probably use RMAN restore or Data Guard, but datapump is always a cleaner way to migrate. With(…)

Oracle 20c Data Guard : Validating a Fast Start Failover Configuration

By Mouhamadou Diaw In Oracle 20c, we can now validate a Fast Start Failover configuration with the new command VALIDATE FAST_START FAILOVER. This command will help identifying issues in the configuration. I tested this new feature. The Fast Start(…)

Oracle 20c : The new PREPARE DATABASE FOR DATA GUARD

By Mouhamadou Diaw As you may know, Oracle 20c is in the cloud with new features. The one I have tested is the PREPARE DATABASE FOR DATA GUARD. This command configures a database for use as a primary database(…)

odacli create-database extremely slow on ODA X8-2 with 19.5

Introduction ODA X8-2, in the S, M or HA flavour, is the new database appliance from Oracle. But as a brand new product, you can experience troubles due to the lack of maturity. This time, it concerns database creation that(…)