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Terraform Import from AWS

I came accross an issue by a customer using aws and terraform. He created a server with ebs volume attached to it but he deleted the volume by mistake. He then recreated it manually without using the terraform to do(…)

The log_duration parameter in PostgreSQL

log_duration is a useful point for finding slow running queries and to find performance issues also on the applications side using PostgreSQL as database. Another topic is finding issues with Java Applications using Hibernate after a(…)

Documentum – DARs installation fails Java 11

As you probably heard if you weren’t in an underground bunker for the past 2 years, Oracle changed the licensing of the Oracle JDK. If you want to read more about it, there is a good FAQ(…)

How to prepare for the SLES 15 Admin certification.

My Background Since I started at dbi services sa (before 3 Weeks), I was working and preparing for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 certification. I had worked with other Linux distributions like CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian on my old(…)

The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) “joins dont scale”

By Franck Pachot . I’ll reference Alex DeBrie article “SQL, NoSQL, and Scale: How DynamoDB scales where relational databases don’t“, especially the paragraph about “Why relational databases don’t scale”. But(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Castor is locked!

One of the best practices while doing upgrade of Documentum is to unlock the various repository objects before starting. This will make sure that if the upgrade process requires an update of some objects, then it will succeed and not(…)

Oracle ACFS: “du” vs. “df” and “acfsutil info”

By Franck Pachot . This is a demo about Oracle ACFS snapshots, and how to understand the used and free space, as displayed by “df”, when there are modifications in the base parent or the snapshot children. The important(…)

Microsoft Teams, Power Automate and Planner

As we moved to Teams at dbi and one of our customers, automating tasks was a strong need. One of the tasks that could be automated is the creation of tasks in Microsoft Planner which does not support recurring tasks.

POUG 2020 Workshop Day 1

I had the opportunity to participate to POUG day 1 and wanted through this blog to share some of my feedback on the interesting sessions I could follow. First of all, I would like to mention the great introduction done(…)

Oracle Data Guard RedoRoutes : What is Priority 8 ?

By Mouhamadou Diaw When dealing with cascading or far sync in a Data Guard environment, it is important to understand how to configure the RedoRoutes property. By default, a primary database sends redo to each transport destination that is(…)