Operating systems

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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,(…)

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,(…)

Setup a RHEL 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about a own Repository server for RHEL 8, Blogs for Repository Server for AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, OpenSuse LEAP, SLES 15 and Debian 11 will follow. The base is a minimal installation.I have added(…)

Configure Data Guard between 2 DB Systems with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog, I have configured 2 DB systems with Oracle 21c in an ODA 19.14. Now let’s continue and show how we can configure a Data Guard between these 2 servers.

Extract all DDL from an Oracle database

Introduction Extracting DDL is sometime useful for creating similar objects in another database without data. Basically everything can be extracted from a running Oracle database. The needs My customer asked me to replicate a database without any data. The goal(…)