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MongoDB OPS Manager (MMS) is a tool for administering and managing MongoDB deployments, particularly large clusters. MongoDB Inc. qualified it as “the best way to manage your MongoDB data center“. OPS Manager also allows you to deploy a complete MongoDB cluster in multiple nodes and several topologies. As you know, at dbi services, the MongoDB installation is based on our best…
Introduction : Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is a kernel module that resides in the I/O path of the Oracle ASM disks. Oracle ASM uses the filter…
In one of my missions, I was involved in a new Fusion Middleware 12C (12.2.1.2) installation with an ADF application and an Oracle report server instance deployments . This infrastructure is protected using an Access Manager Single Sign on Server. In Production, the complete environment is fronted by a WAF server ending the https. On the TEST The complete environment…
This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. A few days ago EnterpriseDB announced the availability of version 2.3 of the EDB containers for OpenShift. The main new feature in this release is the integration of PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager), so in this post we’ll look at how we can…
By Mouhamadou Diaw I was searching a tool for anonymizing data in a PostgreSQL database and I have tested the extension pg_anonymizer. PostgreSQL_anonymizer is a set of SQL functions that remove personally identifiable values from a PostgreSQL table and replace them with random-but-plausible values. The goal is to avoid any identification from the data record while remaining suitable for testing,…
With its 18th release Oracle comes with many improvements. Some of them are obvious and some of them more discrete. This is the case of the new buffer area (memory area) called the Memoptimize pool. This new area, part of the SGA, is used to store the data and metadata of standard Oracle tables (heap-organized tables) to improve significantly the…
Some time ago, a colleague asked around if someone knew a way to automatically request a rendition right after a document was checked in. This looked like a trigger to me and TBOs are here for that, right ? Sure but there was an additional condition: it should be set up by an administrator from the idql command-line tool as…
The PDB lockdown feature offers you the possibility to restrict operations and functionality available from within a PDB, and might be very useful from a security perspective. Some new features have been added to the 18.3.0.0 Oracle version: You have the possibility to create PDB lockdown profiles in the application root like in the CDB root. This facilitates to have…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up about my first immersion into the SQL Server managed instances (SQLMIs), a new deployment model of Azure SQL Database which provides near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server on-premises Database Engine. In the previous blog post, to test a connection to this new service, I installed an Azure virtual machine on the…
By Mouhamadou Diaw During the installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you can optionally enable automated installation and configuration of Oracle ASM Filter Driver for your system with the Configure ASM Filter Driver check box on the Create ASM Disk Group wizard page. When you enable the Configure ASM Filter Driver box, an automated process for Oracle ASMFD is launched during…
When trying to connect to a database via SCAN listener in a RAC environment with sqlplus, an ORA-12514 error is thrown. Tnsping can resolve the connect string. Whereas connecting to the same database over node listener with sqlplus succeeds. One possible reason could be, that the parameter remote_listener of the database to be connected is not set to SCAN listener…
Few months ago, a customer asks me for finding in a column, how many rows exist with the same date & time and the delta between them. The column default value is based on the function CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and used as key as well. This is obviously a very bad idea but let’s go ahead… This anti pattern may lead to…
