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Some Artificial Intuition in Oracle SQL_ID?

By Franck Pachot . This post is something I discovered by chance when writing about tagging SQL statement with recognizable comments. We know that Oracle is introducing more and more artificial intelligence and machine learning in the database engine,(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible

Since the beginning of the year, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux Kernel as well as in others important and widely-used packages. Among them, there was the famous CVE-2021-3156 affecting the sudo package and allowing(…)

SQL Server: Create a Shared Storage for your Failover Cluster LAB

I’m currently working on the migration of a Failover Clustered SSAS instance from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2019. The context is quite complex and in order to choose the right migration scenario I need to play with it(…)

Oracle Java Virtual Machine included in Oracle Database license ?

Introduction A customer of mine asked me a licensing question regarding the usage or Oracle Java (OJVM) in an Oracle database.  Basically this customer have an Oracle Database Standard Edition License and would like to use Oracle JVM in order(…)

Working with multipass, a VM manager

Introduction What if you need quickly to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu for development and testing purposes. Multipass from Canonical can be the right tool for this. You can even customize the instances during launch by using Cloud-init in(…)

Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server?

By Franck Pachot . Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server? Here was a answer found in Reddit: Comment byu/CacheMeUp from discussion inPostgreSQL Reducing the(…)

Oracle Data Integrator Cloud

Data and applications integration is always a technical challenge for most of the companies. All data integration tool ensures that information is timely, accurate, and consistent across complex systems. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is different than traditional data integration tools(…)

ORA-32635: not a single cell reference predicate

By Franck Pachot . I spent 30 minutes to try to understand this error with a query that I’ve run in many environments for years. So if you google it you may arrive here and the solution may be(…)

Adding nmon to Oracle OSWatcher

nmon (nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux on POWER, x86, x86_64, Mainframe & now ARM (Raspberry Pi)) is a nice tool to monitor a Linux system. Originally it came from the AIX-platform, where it is very(…)

PostgreSQL 14: LZ4 compression for TOAST

In PostgreSQL a row or tuple can not span multiple pages (a page is typically 8kB), but of course you can store larger rows and PostgreSQL brakes and compresses these rows into smaller chunks by using a technique called(…)