Database management

Thinking about downgrading from Oracle Enterprise to Standard Edition?

By Franck Pachot . You are using an Oracle Enterprise Edition and thinking about downgrading to the Standard Edition? In this case, you must be sure that your applications are compatible. It’s not something easy to check. Here are(…)

MySQL high availability management with ClusterControl

Installing and managing a highly available MySQL infrastructure can be really tedious. Solutions to facilitate database and system administrator’s task exist, but few of these cover the complete database lifecycle and address all the database infrastructure management requirements. Severalnines’ product(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – AWR Warehouse

This post explains how to configure and use the new AWR warehouse functionality present in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.4. This new feature offers the possibility to store date from the AWR of your main databases in the EM AWR(…)

Oracle: How to move OMF datafiles in 11g and 12c

By Franck Pachot . With OMF datafiles, you don’t manage the datafile names. But how do you set the destination when you want to move them to another mount point? Let’s see how easy (and online) it works in(…)

Resize your Oracle datafiles down to the minimum without ORA-03297

By Franck Pachot . Your datafiles have grown in the past but now you want to reclaim as much space as possible, because you are short on filesystem space, or you want to move some files without moving empty(…)

What’s the consequence of NOLOGGING loads?

By Franck Pachot . When you load data in direct-path and have the NOLOGGING attribute set, you minimize redo generation, but you take the risk, in case of media recovery, to loose the data in the blocks that you’ve(…)

How to remap tablespaces using Oracle Import/Export Tool

Since Oracle 10g, Oracle provides a great tool to import and export data from databases: Data Pump. This tool offers several helpful options, particularly one that allows to import data in a different tablespace than the source database. This parameter(…)

Oracle 12.1.0.2.1 Set to Join Conversion

By Franck Pachot . Recently, I described the Partial Join Evaluation transformation that appeared last year in Oracle 12c. I did it as an introduction for another transformation that appeared long time ago in 10.1.0.3 but was not(…)

How to find the SQL Server Management Pack in the SCOM database

While working on a customer project, I needed to retrieve the SQL Server SCOM Management Pack version. Unfortunately, the SCOM team took a while to answer and as I am the DBA, I have access to the SCOM databases.

Deploying a SQL Server database to Azure

Deploying an SQL Server database to a Windows Azure virtual machine is a feature introduced with SQL Server 2014. It can be useful for an organization  that wants to reduce its infrastucture management, simplify the deployment, or have a(…)