Operating systems

ODA version 19.17 is available: how to patch?

How to patch your ODA to 19.17(…)

ODA : Do You Know The MOVE Table In MySQL DB Repository

By Mouhamadou Diaw During a consulting on a customer, we faced the following issue when trying to delete a dbhome Message:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGO-2470 : Working copy “OraDB19000_home1” is involved in an incomplete move or upgrade operation The(…)

Patching ODA HA from 19.14 to 19.16

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patching an ODA is always exciting. Preparing a patch of an ODA HA may seem more complicated that an single ODA. But it’s the same processus. All patching operations should be run on one node. In(…)

NFS mount using Redhat autofs

First of all, why would you use autofs over nfs mount in the fstab ? Shares are accessed automatically and transparently when a user tries to access files or directories under the designated mount point of the remote filesystem to(…)

Patch ODA X8 : 19.9 to 19.11

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog, I describe the patching of an ODA X8 from 19.9 to 19.11. We use following patches p32790643_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance Server Patch for ODACLI/DCS Stackp30403673_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance GI Clone for(…)

SHELL SCRIPTING: How to return values from functions in bash scripts

BASH: make function to return arbitrary values, not only numbers(…)

Configure Oracle DB for using Large Pages on AIX

When it comes to deploying a new Oracle infrastructure, 90% of it is implemented on Linux. This makes sense, because Oracle runs very stable and performant on Linux and it is also Oracle’s own development platform. But since variety makes(…)

PostgreSQL on 80 core ARM Server

This Blog is about intallation and testing PostgreSQL 14 latest on an ARM based 80 core Server using Rocky Linux 8.6. Many thanks to Happyware for providing the machine used for this Blog. https://happyware.com/ The machine used for this(…)

Setup a Rocky Linux Repository server

This Blog is about a setup of a Rocky Linux Repository server. Many people whould complain that it will be the same than RHEL 8, but is is not, there are some differencies between AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux(…)

Setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about to setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server including EPEL and RPMFusion. Many people whould complain that it will be the same than RHEL 8, but is is not, there are some differencies between AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux,(…)