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Documentum CTS reinstallation failing Null Pointer

I went into an issue by a customer were I had to upgrade in place the CTS. When you have to upgrade a CTS on the same server you first have to uninstall the old version in order to install(…)

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

PostgreSQL 14: Add the number of de-allocations to pg_stat_statements?

In the last post we had a look at an interesting patch (schema variables) that is currently waiting to be committed for PostgreSQL 14. Another patch, that currently is in the same state is named(…)

DynamoDB PartiQL – part I: INSERT

By Franck Pachot . This sounds paradoxical to execute SQL statements on a NoSQL database, but we have now a new API to interact with DynamoDB, which looks like SQL. AWS data services is a collection of purpose-built database(…)

Installing EDB Advanced Server without EDB Repository

Almost all of us, who already installed Enterprise DB Tools on a Linux server know the procedure. You need to add the EDB Repository to your server or your Red Hat Satellite configuration and after that you can easily install(…)

AWS burstable EC2 and CloudWatch metrics

By Franck Pachot . Your application workload is usually not constant and maybe not predictable. If you undersize the capacity, you will save money but in case of peak of activity you will have severe performance issues. Thus, you(…)

Documentum DQMan for repositories 16.7 and after

You may have noticed when upgrading your documentum infra that after 7.3 the DQMan utility from FME is no more usable (you get a red cross without any warnings on the screen). In this blog I’ll show you(…)

Will PostgreSQL14 finally come with schema variables?

One of the bits you need to solve when you migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL is this: In the Oracle database there are PL/SQL packages and some of those have package variables defined. PostgreSQL does not know the concept of(…)

Solr Sharding – Shard creation

I wrote this blog in conjunction with the one about the Solr Sharding – Concepts & Methods a year ago and it was 95% completed but then I had other stuff to do and just forgot(…)

odacli create-database -io doesn’t work for older databases in 19.9

Introduction On ODA, you create your databases with odacli create-database. You can create a complete database, and it takes about 10 minutes, and you can also create an instance-only database. It will simply and quickly create a record in the(…)