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SQL Server: Analysis of SCOM Warning on the Health Check

Sometimes, it’s hard to find how to analyze a Warning in the SCOM Interface and correct the problem. By a customer, we install new instances in SQL Server 2019 and change the version of SCOM. All new servers have a(…)

Rancher installation on RHEL 8 compatible Linux

This Blog is about the installation of Rancher Community on a RHEL 8 compatible Linux, for this Blog i choose AlmaLinux 8.4, but i will also work on Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate. Base is an AlmaLinux / Rocky(…)

SQL Server Tips: Get back permissions lost for mount points!

Recently by a customer, we are facing the case to lose all mount points on a secondary node in a HA SQL Server AlwaysOn infrastructure due to a big problem on the Datacenter. We need to build from scratch(…)

Oracle Internet Directory or Oracle Access manager 12.2.1.4 fails to install on Red Hat Linux8

Recently I had to install Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM) both in 12.2.1.4 on a Red Hat 8 for new QA and PRODUCTION environments. The installation of the OID 12.2.1.4 failed on packages prerequisites check. It(…)

Parameterized Views with SYS_CONTEXT in Oracle. How can the optimizer peek values?

There was a dicsussion a couple of years ago about a mssing feature in Oracle that the Optimizer is not peeking values when SYS_CONTEXT is being used in a predicate. I.e. specifically when using SYS_CONTEXT in Views to simulate passing(…)

Patroni on FreeBSD 13?

You can already find several blog posts around PostgreSQL protected by Patroni on our blog. They all have in common, that the setup is on a flavor of Linux. As I got impressed by(…)

Use Ansible like a Programming Language

I did not intend to create a new blog on Ansible so fast, but here it comes. My previous blog on that topic was a first step in Ansible world. Now, it is time to use some of the(…)

Cloud CLI

By Franck Pachot . Here is how to quickly install the CLI (Command Line Interface) for the following public clouds: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. On Linux, I’m using wget but you can use curl. I’ll install all cloud(…)

A web-based MBean Navigator for Oracle WebLogic wlst

Back in the days of WebLogic v8.x, when BEA still owned it and wlst wasn’t the official scripting tool yet, the unofficial wlshell and wlshell Explorer tools were available along with the official command-line tool weblogic.Admin. wlshell was a Windows(…)

JENKINS – recover access to your Jenkins Admin Dashboard

Hi team, I recently installed a Jenkins machine and forgot to create a “first admin user”, but I also forgot the password to log in with default admin user (I guess default password was admin but it doesn’t matter now(…)