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Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again

In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 1

This year, dbi services attends the AWS re:Invent 2021 conference, in Las Vegas. In the current global health situation, this event has a bit of a unexpected flavor as the previous edition was organized virtually. Having in-person such amazing(…)

AWS re:Invent 2021 – A busy day to start

This week, I consider myself lucky I’m working with AWS at customer and at dbi since few years now and I consider myself lucky to attend the conference in person. At re:Invent, there are different types of content(…)

PostgresBuild2021 – questions feedback (1)

PostgresBuild2021 is currently ongoing and as usual, I had questions after my talk I could not immediately answer. One of the best ways to learn, is to present a topic. There are for sure questions you never(…)

Open source monitoring solutions (1) – Zabbix server setup

We are often asked which monitoring solution we recommend for PostgreSQL, by people attending our PostgreSQL workshops. We usually answer: What do you have in place already? If a solution already is in place, the most obvious(…)

ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)

5 things that aren’t true about RMAN

Introduction RMAN backups are not a hot topic today. This is because it didn’t evolve that much in 12c/18c/19c, and most of the databases are now protected by a good backup strategy since years, and no changes are needed. Furthermore,(…)

Dbvisit 10 on Oracle Database Appliance

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dbvisit Standby can also be installed on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The installation is the same that on any other Linux box. I did an install of Dbvist 10 on an ODA 19.12 for a customer and(…)

SQL Server – Granting SQL Server permission to service SID

Introduction We know that SQL Server itself is using it own SID NT SERVICEMSSQL$ and NT SERVICESQLAGENT$ to grant permission to the database engine and the SQL agent services. But the same method can be used for other application(…)