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SELinux for beginners

Do you know the following situation: You are following a step by step tutorial on the web and on your environment does not work as expected because of SELinux. Your looking on search engines command how you can disable the(…)

Configure PostgreSQL to allow remote connection

By default, PostgreSQL will only allow localhost connection. If you want allow remote connections, you need to configure it. Configuring postgresql.conf First we need to find out where our conf file is located. You have two options: If you(…)

How to create an AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Group

AWS comes with the great service of auto scaling, that gives the possibility to automatically adapt the environment to the changing needs. This helps to optimize costs and performance. With rising needs, your environment scales up and as soon as(…)

Troubleshooting performance on Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . On my Oracle Cloud Free Tier Autonomous Transaction Processing service, a database that can be used for free with no time limit, I have seen this strange activity. As I’m running nothing(…)

Reimaging an ODA to 19.8 Part II

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog, I described the steps to deploy an ODA 19.8 by reimaging. The ODA was reimaged with the latest available version 19.8 but some components were not up-to-dated. 1(…)

Reimaging an ODA to 19.8 Part I

By Mouhamadou Diaw Recently I was deploying some ODA X8-2M. To install the 19.8 software, I decide to reimage the server with the 19.8 image. In this blog I describe the main steps I did. First, we will need to(…)

Data virtualization on SQL Server with Redgate SQL Clone

By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I’ve installed SQL Server on the Oracle Cloud. My goal was actually to have a look at Redgate SQL Clone, a product(…)

Boost your CPU speed with Standard Edition 2 on ODA

Introduction There is no need to decrease the number of cores on your ODA when using Standard Edition 2, because your license is based on the number of physical CPU. So why would you do that? Obviously, the more cores(…)

SQL Server on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle(…)

Control-M/EM Order jobs with a specific user daily

Introduction Hi everybody,today let’s see an easy way to order a folder at a specific hour/date instead of being ordered directly by the new day procedure. To do so, we will use the ctmudly utility. Ctmudly command To(…)