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Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node

If you want to play with Rancher you have several options, as outlined in the documentation. There are quick starts for the major public cloud providers (using Terraform), you can install(…)

JENKINS installing Artifactory server and add it to your Jenkins master

Hi everybody As promised in my previous post on Artifactory plugin here is the installation guide to use Artifactory with your  Jenkins master.First we need to check the prerequisites and then after installation will see how to link it(…)

How to configure additional listeners on ODA

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently doesn’t know what’s a listener. Let’s find out how to(…)

JENKINS installing Artifactory plugin and fix dependencies issue

Hi everybody As I planned to show you how to use Artifactory in next blog topic , we need to install it through plugin management. During this I faced some issues.Below we will check how to fix it. what(…)

Delphix: a glossary to get started

By Franck Pachot . dbi-services is partner of Delphix – a data virtualization platform for easy cloning of databases. I’m sharing a little glossary to get started if you are not familiar with the terms you see in doc,(…)

Oracle Blockchain Tables: COMMIT-Time

Oracle Blockchain Tables are available now with Oracle 19.10. (see Connor’s Blog on it), they are part of all editions and do not need any specific license. I.e. whenever we need to store data in a table, which(…)

Be careful with prepared transactions in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL gives you the possibility for two-phase commit. You'll might need that if you want an atomic distributed commit. If you check the PostgreSQL documentation there is a clear warning about using these kind(…)

Automate CNOs and VCOs for SQL Server AAG

During the installation of a new SQL Server environment in a Project, we wanted to automate the whole process deployment and configuration when installing a new SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AAG). This installation requires to prestage cluster(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5?

Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup).

SQL Server: Control the size of your Transaction Log file with Resumable Index Rebuild

Introduction In this blog post, I will demonstrate how the Resumable capability of Online index rebuild operation can help you to keep the transaction log file size under control. An index rebuild operation is done in a single transaction(…)