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Introduction With the latest ODA X8 range, at least 80% of the customers could find an ODA configuration that fits their needs. For the others, either they can’t afford it, either they are already in the Cloud, or they need extremely large storage or EXADATA performance. Among these 80% of customers, only a few choose ODA. Let’s see how Oracle…
I have recently faced an issue deleting database on an ODA. I was getting following error whatever database I wanted to delete : DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: null. Through this blog, I would like to share with you my experience on this case hoping it will help you if you are facing same problem. On this project I was using ODA…
During a past project, we were using ODA X8-2M with one additional network card. As per my knowledge, on an appliance, additional cards are used to extend connectivity to additional network. Customer was really enforcing to have network redundancy between the 2 cards. I then took opportunity for some tests. In this post, I would like to share my experience…
From an application point of view, the oracle scheduler DBMS_SCHEDULER allows to reach best performance by parallelizing your process. Let’s start with the following PL/SQL code inserting in serial several rows from a metadata table to a target table. In my example, the metadata table does not contain “directly” the data but a set a of sql statement to be…
PostgreSQL, like all other database engines, modifies the table and index blocks in shared buffers. People think that the main goal of buffered reads is to act as a cache to avoid reading from disk. But that’s not the main reason as this is not mandatory. For example PostgreSQL expects that the filesystem cache is used. The primary goal of…
By Franck Pachot . Note that I’ve written previously about Oracle Standard Edition 2 licensing before but a few rules change. This is written in May 2020. TL;DR: 4 vCPU count for 1 socket and 2 sockets count for 1 server wherever hyper-threading is enabled or not. The SE2 rules I think the Standard Edition rules are quite clear now:…
The SQL Server environment I worked with today has dozens of SQL Server instances using AlwaysOn Availability Groups for High Availability.When a login is created on the Primary replica of an Availability Group it is not synchronized automatically on secondary replicas. This might cause some issues after a failover (Failed logins). Since this is not done automatically by SQL Server…
What is Nagios ? “Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.” https://www.nagios.org/ In simple words, you can monitor your servers (linux, MSSSQL, etc …) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc …) with nagios. We use the free version !!! 😀 …
Everybody has already faced performance problem with oracle CLOB columns. The aim of this blog is to show you (always from a real user case) how to use one of Oracle Text Indexes (CONTEXT index) to solve performance problem with CLOB column. The oracle text complete documentation is here : Text Application Developer’s Guide Let’s start with the following SQL…
During my last blog post I explained how to installed a MABS. Now that your infrastructure is setup you will be able to protect the workload of your Hyper-V Virtual Machines. You have first to create a new protection group. This group will contain one or more VMs which will share the same backup configuration for retention, synchronization and recovery.…
By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not limited in time (I still have the 11g XE I’ve created 2 years ago running there) being able to use 40% of…
Introduction If you’re considering ODA for your next platform, you surely already appreciate the simplicity of the offer. 3 models with few options, this is definitely easy to choose from. One of the other benefit is also the hardware support of 5 years, and combined with software updates generally available for up to 7 years old ODAs, you can keep…
