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I came accross an issue by a customer using aws and terraform. He created a server with ebs volume attached to it but he deleted the volume by mistake. He then recreated it manually without using the terraform to do it. Thus, the tfstate wasn’t up to date with the new volume and when executing the terraform plan it wanted…
log_duration is a useful point for finding slow running queries and to find performance issues also on the applications side using PostgreSQL as database. Another topic is finding issues with Java Applications using Hibernate after a migration to PostgreSQL. Often Hibernate switches from lazy to eager mode and this has massive impact on the application performance. In this context I…
By Franck Pachot . I’ll reference Alex DeBrie article “SQL, NoSQL, and Scale: How DynamoDB scales where relational databases don’t“, especially the paragraph about “Why relational databases don’t scale”. But I want to make clear that my post here is not against this article, but against a very common myth that even precedes NoSQL databases. Actually, I’m taking this article…
By Franck Pachot . This is a demo about Oracle ACFS snapshots, and how to understand the used and free space, as displayed by “df”, when there are modifications in the base parent or the snapshot children. The important concept to understand is that, when you take a snapshot, any modification to the child or parent will [grid@cloud ~]$ asmcmd…
As we moved to Teams at dbi and one of our customers, automating tasks was a strong need. One of the tasks that could be automated is the creation of tasks in Microsoft Planner which does not support recurring tasks. Every 4 weeks, we are patching the environment. For everyone awareness and follow up, we need to publish these dates…
I had the opportunity to participate to POUG day 1 and wanted through this blog to share some of my feedback on the interesting sessions I could follow. First of all, I would like to mention the great introduction done by the staff team and the great organization. POUG staff team could adapt to the coronavirus situation and organized excellent…
By Mouhamadou Diaw When dealing with cascading or far sync in a Data Guard environment, it is important to understand how to configure the RedoRoutes property. By default, a primary database sends redo to each transport destination that is configured in the destination. We can create more complex transport topology, depending of our environment, using the RedoRoutes property. Basically the…
By Franck Pachot . Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is a Linux distribution which is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, unlike RHEL, OEL is open source, free to download, free to use, free to distribute, free to update and gets free bug fixes. And there are more frequent updates in OEL than in CentOS, the free base…
The global_name in an oracle database has a direct impact on the Golden Gate Extract process registration we need to do when we create an Integrated Extract. In my example below, I use Oracle GoldenGate MicroServices architecture but the same behaviour occurs with Oracle GoldenGate Classic architecture. Let’s start with the creation of the Extract process by clicking on…
This year the Postgres Vision 2020 conference was a Free Virtual Event that took place on June 23-24, 2020 and the Postgres Vision Theme was “Postgres is for builders” Experts, IT professionals and Postgres community leaders from all around the world were talking about the future of Postgres, real-world stories, Postgres in the cloud, Postgres containerized but also this year…
Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is really OCI? OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world. These servers are not very…
By Franck Pachot . I had a few questions about the Oracle ACE program recently and I thought about putting some answers there. Of course, that’s only my point of view, there’s an official web page: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace/index.html The program is flexible and open, with a large diversity of people, technologies, contributions, levels,… Then rather than explaining what it is, which…
