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Last but not least, today was mainly dedicated to demos and customer cases. It started with the global stream presenting some OpenText applications like Core for Quality: An application developed with AppWorks and integrated to Magellan. It was meant to manage quality issues and connected to Documentum in order to link issues with SOP documents. In the different demos we…
Day 2 of OTEW, we followed the global stream this morning which was taking most of the points from yesterday. But we had the pleasure to have a session from Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, Futurist and popularizer of science. He wrote several books about physics and how he sees the future. He sees us in the next 20 years…
It has been while since my last blog. Today it is about continuing with helm charts and how to upgrade / downgrade SQL Server containers to a specific cumulative update. My first write-up in my to-do list. Last year, I wrote an introduction of SQL Server containers on K8s. I remembered to face some issues when testing upgrade scenarios (probably…
One of the difficulty when writing a SQL query (static SQL) is to have in the same Where Clause different conditions handling Null Values and Not Null Values for a predica. Let’s me explain you by an example : Users can entered different values for a user field from an OBI report: – If no value entered then all rows…
Few days ago, a customer asks me if it is possible to move the history table to slower but cheaper storage. The question behind this is whether it is possible to create a history table on a separate filegroup and file. Few years ago, I write a serie of blogs about temporal table here. I will take the same example…
Even you don’t need 18c, or you’re not ready for this release, this patch will also update your 11gR2, 12cR1 and 12cR2 databases to the latest PSU available on ODA, it means for example the patchset from last July if you’re using 12cR1. Here is how to apply this latest patch for your ODA lite. In this example, the patch…
A common problem is to extract sql statements out of a sql file e.g. produced by full metadata impdp. Often these files are too big to be edited with vi. Following statement extracts all sql statements with “CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW” at the beginning with awk: cat impdp_full_metadata.sql | awk ‘BEGIN{ FLAG = 0 } { if( $0 ~ /CREATE MATERIALIZED…
By Mouhamadou Diaw Up to PostgreSQL 11 pg_dump all was used to dump all PostgreSQL databases of a cluster into one script file. The script file then contains SQL commands that can be used as input to psql to restore the databases. It does this by calling pg_dump for each database in the cluster. PostgreSQL 12 is under development but…
A common problem in Oracle 12c is, that ACLs are often not wanted to limit connections from database to other hosts. To disable ACLs is not that easy, so the best way is to enable connections and resolutions to all hosts for all users like following example: BEGIN DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.APPEND_HOST_ACE( host => ‘*’, ace => xs$ace_type(privilege_list => xs$name_list(‘resolve’), principal_name => ‘PUBLIC’,…
As I discussed in some of my recent talks at conferences (at the DOAG for example), MySQL 8 came out with new features which bring lots of improvements in terms of security. “At-Rest” encryption has been existing from some releases by now: – InnoDB Tablespace Encryption: by 5.7.11 – Redo and Undo Log Data Encryption: by 8.0.1 Now starting from…
PostgreSQL comes with various helper functions that support you with working with files on the filesystem on the host PostgreSQL is running on. You might ask yourself why that is important but there are use cases for that. Maybe you want to list the contents of a directory because new files that showed up since the last check do trigger…
The scope of this blog will be to show how to create a primary role database based on a backup of a standby database on 12cR2. Step1: We are assuming that an auxiliary instance has been created and started in nomount mode. rman target / restore primary controlfile from ‘backup_location_directory/control_.bkp’; exit; By specifying “restore primary” , will modify the flag…
