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GoldenGate 26ai out-of-place patching with the web UI

For some customers, the end of support for GoldenGate 19c in May this year and the migration to Microservices Architecture mean that they have to adapt their patching procedures (if they had any !). Let’s see(…)

GoldenGate : Regenerate NGINX Reverse Proxy After Deployment Changes

Configuring an NGINX reverse proxy for GoldenGate is well documented by Oracle, but what is not is the implication of adding or removing deployments. In fact, when modifying your GoldenGate deployments, you will have to reconfigure(…)

Oracle Database 26ai Client and SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME

We have been facing one issue at one of our customer where the Oracle Client connections remained opened for days blocking some avaloq JobNetz. We have been doing some tests and we could fortunately find a solution resolving the problem(…)

Reduce downtime when refreshing your non-production databases using Multitenant

Introduction You probably refresh your non-production Oracle databases with production data from time to time or on a regular basis. Without Multitenant, the most common procedure to do this refresh is a DUPLICATE FROM BACKUP with RMAN. The drawback is(…)

OGG-08502 Path not found error from OGG Receiver Service

Update: this bug seems to be corrected with the latest GoldenGate patch (23.26.2.0.1). If you face this error, try to patch your GoldenGate deployments. Recently, after a successful migration to GoldenGate 26ai, a customer complained that he was seeing a(…)

Install and configure OEM plug-in for GoldenGate

If you are licensed for the GoldenGate Management Pack, using the Enterprise Manager plug-in for GoldenGate improves monitoring and management of your deployments. And after migrating to the Microservices Architecture, you should definitely update your plug-in and rediscover all targets.

Increase GoldenGate 26ai Log Retention

GoldenGate logs are a powerful source of information when debugging or analyzing your deployments. However, some of these logs have a rather low retention period in active deployments. They might then not even be useful for debugging if you send(…)

Deployment removal failed in GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (INS-85038)

Recently, I wrote about deleting a GoldenGate deployment with the REST API, and when investigating this issue, I remembered a limitation of the configuration assistant, which I wanted to talk about. For more information about deployment(…)

EM-90000 SSL Error With GoldenGate Targets in OEM

In this blog, I will explain what needs to be done when registering GoldenGate targets behind NGINX reverse proxy in the Enterprise Manager. More specifically, we will see how to avoid the EM-90000 error related to an SSLHandshakeException. If you(…)

AutoUpgrade powered easy download and installation of Oracle AI Database 26ai on Linux

With latest versions of AutoUpgrade, downloading and installing Oracle AI Database 26ai on Linux x86 on-premise has become a very simple process. If you want to give a try to Oracle Database 26ai, building a test environment requires minimal effort(…)