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Integration catalog is easy to work with and the environments feature is as well very convenient. In SQL Server management Studio, there are a lot of features available to administrate your SQL Server instances, but some are missing that can be very useful. You have the possibility to move an SSISDB environment but this is only possible in another folder…
I needed a special package on my OVM Server 3.4.6. The package is called fio and is needed to do some I/O performance tests. Unfortunately, OVM Server does not provide any package for compiling software and installing additional software to your OVM Server is also not supported. But there is a solution: Insatll a VM with Oracle VM Server 3.4.6…
PostgreSQL 12 will give you more control on resetting statistics gathered by pg_stat_statements. When you check the documentation for PostgreSQL 11 (as linked in the previous sentence) you will see that the function has the following signature: pg_stat_statements_reset() returns void This means your only choice is to reset all the statistics. Today this commit landed and this will give you…
This blog will go straight to the topic. When upgrading/installing your content server to 7+, you may experience an internal error with a popup telling you to look into a file called something like: DBTestResult7092863812136784595.tmp In fact, the installation process failed to test the database connection. Even if it managed to find your schema previously. In the file you’ll find…
Often switching off resource plan feature of Oracle database is desired. Unfortunately setting parameter RESOURCE_MANAGER_PLAN to empty string does not help, because it does not disable switching to another resource plan, e.g. with dbms_scheduler. Following procedure prevents this switching. 1. Creation of a dummy resource plan, e.g. TEST_PLAN: BEGIN DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CLEAR_PENDING_AREA(); DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CREATE_PENDING_AREA(); DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CREATE_PLAN( plan =>’TEST_PLAN’, comment => ‘plan for TEST’, mgmt_mth…
Automation is key today, nobody wants to do the same tasks over and over and again. Cloud without automation is not even possible. There are several tools around that help with automation and one of the most popular is Ansible. We already have several posts about Ansible on our blog platform but this one will be rather long. Setting up…
When trying to patch your virtualized ODA with patch 12.1.2.12.0 and immediately after that with 12.2.1.4.0, you might consider to load the patches like this: [root@XX1 Oracle_Soft_Repo]# oakcli unpack -package /cloudfs/Oracle_Soft_Repo/p26433712_1212120_Linux-x86-64_1of2.zip Unpacking will take some time, Please wait… Successfully unpacked the files to repository. [root@XX1 Oracle_Soft_Repo]# oakcli unpack -package /cloudfs/Oracle_Soft_Repo/p26433712_1212120_Linux-x86-64_2of2.zip Unpacking will take some time, Please wait… Successfully unpacked the…
Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud transformation has begun in many forms at customer shops and we heard about some big actors who are coming in Switzerland including Azure or Google. Data Platforms services…
By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I talked about installing and configuring Edb Failover Manager with PostgreSQL. The configuration of a Virtual Ip Address was not discussed in this previous article.In this blog I am going to show how we can implement a virtual IP with EFM. We suppose that -The standby is already built -EFM is configured…
Introduction When you work on ODA you sometimes get struggled with local filesystem free space. ODA has terabytes of space on data disks, but local disks are still limited to a raid-1 array of 2x 480GB disks. And only few GB are dedicated to / and /u01 filesystems. You do not need hundreds of GB on these filesystems, but I…
By Mouhamadou Diaw PostgreSQl supports many authentication methods. The PAM authentication method operates similarly to password except that it uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) as the authentication mechanism. The user must exist in the database before PAM can be used for authentication. In this blog I will configure PAM authentication for a PostgreSQL cluster 11 running on a centos 7.…
During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm is a package manager for K8s and you may think of it like the other ones available on the Linux side with apt, yum or zypper to…
