Everything our consultants learn while running databases for customers: Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Delphix. Expect hands-on posts about installation, day-to-day administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, replication and upgrades.
By Franck Pachot . Application Container brings a new way to share data among databases, and adds a new dimension to referential integrity. A foreign key in an application PDB can reference a row belonging to a root data link table. But then, should a delete on the root validate that there are no orpheans in the application PDBs? And…
Qu’est-ce que DBSAT ? C’est un outil gratuit d’Oracle que vous pouvez télécharger sur My Oracle Support avec comme référence : Doc Id 2138254.1. Il a pour but d’évaluer la sécurité de vos bases de données Oracle en analysant la configuration et les stratégies de sécurité mise en place afin de découvrir les risques liés à la sécurité. Comment cela…
By William Sescu One of the questions that pops up immediately, after you have installed your OUD successfully is how to integrate it into the automatic startup routines of the OS. My example here show how to do it on Oracle Linux 6. On Oracle Linux 7 it looks a little different. Fortunately, Oracle delivers a script called “create-rc-script”, which…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/dataguard-wait-events-have-changed-in-12c/ I mentioned the new processes NSA for ASYNC transport and NSS for SYNC transport. I’m answering a bit late to a comment about the number of processes: yes there is one NSSn process per LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n destination in SYNC and the numbers match. Here is my configuration with two physical standby: DGMGRL>…
In the last post we did a click/click/click setup of the PEM server. What we want to do now is to attach a PostgreSQL instance to the PEM server for being able to monitor and administer it. For that we need to install the PEM agent on a host where we have a PostgreSQL instance running (192.168.22.249 in my case,…
In case you missed it: EnterpriseDB has released the beta of Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 beta. When installation is as easy as for the current version that should just be a matter of clicking next, lets see. Because the installer will create the systemd services installation should be done as root: [root@edbpem tmp]$ ls -l total 289076 -rw-r–r–. 1 root…
By William Sescu My blog about listener rotation caused some discussion, which is great. 🙂 It sounds like an easy stuff, but in case of listener logging it isn’t. https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oracle-12-2-how-to-rotate-the-12-2-listener-log-diag_adr_enabled_listener-off/ Many ways do exist to rotate the listener log, but I was trying to point out some issues, because there are a few, e.g. What happens when the log file…
By William Sescu Nowadays, since the cloud is becoming more and more important, the PL/SQL API’s become more and more important too. Fortunately, Oracle has quite a lot of them. E.g. How do you run a Data Pump export if you have no ssh connectivity to the server? You could use the old exp tool, which is still available even…
By Franck Pachot . Disclaimer My goal here is only to show that the Refreshable PDB feature works by shipping and applying redo, and then can synchronize a copy of the datafiles. I do not recommend to use it for disaster recovery in any production environment yet. Even if I’m using only supported features, those features were not designed for…
What is Apache Kafka ? No, Kafka is not only the famous author (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka), it’s an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system with powerful skills like scalability and fault tolerance. It’s also a stream processing platform (near real-time) for the streaming datasources. The design of Apache Kafka is strongly influenced by the commit logs. Apache Kafka was originally developed by Linkedin and was…
Ensuring data availability is an important part of the high availability design. SQL Server AlwaysOn features including SQL Server FCIs and availability groups address some aspects of the problem but we may also rely on the online operations features to maximize data availability. Indeed, for some high-critical workloads, offline operations during the maintenance phase are not permitted and may contribute…
By William Sescu The listener log file contains a lot of very useful information, like the program which was used for the connection, the IP address where the connection is coming from, the OS user which was used on the client and many many more. 05-JUN-2017 12:36:19 * service_update * DBIT122 * 0 05-JUN-2017 12:36:19 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=DBIT122_SITE1_DGMGRL)(UR=A)(CID=(PROGRAM=sqlplus@dbidg01)(HOST=dbidg01)(USER=oracle))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.56.201)(PORT=42619)) *…
