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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(…)

Exascale new clone and snapshot capabilities

One of the most game changing capabilities of Exascale are the new clone and snapshot features compared to previous options available with ASM / ACFS. And since the business requirements for clones or snapshots to be made available rapidly and(…)

Delete a GoldenGate deployment when the password is lost

Recently, I was asked how to recreate a GoldenGate deployment if the password for the Security user (the first user created with the deployment) was lost. This is an interesting question that I figured was worth writing about. As a(…)

Not enough space for using ODABR? Reduce /u01 and /opt size on your ODA

Introduction The patching of an Oracle Database Appliance needs to be secured. This is because it won’t limit to patching the databases: there is plenty of other components embedded with the patch, the goal being to keep everything updated. A(…)

Bulk Update of GoldenGate Extract Profiles

After writing blogs about Default profile updates and a bug affecting profiles in GoldenGate 26ai, I realized it would be a good idea to present a quick way to update all processes(…)

Loosing java remote console full control during ODA Reimage

Recently I had to patch an ODA at one of our customer from 19.20 to 19.26, going through 19.24. As you are aware of, knowing we go from Oracle Linux 7 (19.20) to Oracle Linux 8 (19.24), we need to(…)

GoldenGate 26ai Logs Explained

GoldenGate logs are a powerful source of information when troubleshooting or analyzing your deployments. However, there is at least one log file per service in the Microservices Architecture. This means that for a GoldenGate setup with multiple deployments, you can(…)