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Oracle Autonomous Linux: cron’d ksplice and yum updates

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is a Linux distribution which is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, unlike RHEL, OEL is open source, free to download, free to use, free to distribute, free(…)

Oracle GoldenGate 19c: Cannot register Integrated EXTRACT due to ORA-44004

The global_name in an oracle database has a direct impact on the Golden Gate Extract process registration we need to do when we create an Integrated Extract. In my example below, I use Oracle GoldenGate MicroServices architecture but the same(…)

Postgres Vision 2020 is still live

This year the Postgres Vision 2020 conference was a Free Virtual Event that took place on June 23-24, 2020 and the Postgres Vision Theme was “Postgres is for builders”(…)

Oracle Cloud basics for beginners

Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is(…)

Attaching your own CentOS 7 yum repository to AWS SSM

From some blogs I've written in the past you might already know that we are using AWS SSM to patch and maintain the complete EC2 and onprem instances at one of our customers. The previous posts(…)

The Oracle ACE program ♠ what it is not ♠

By Franck Pachot . I had a few questions about the Oracle ACE program recently and I thought about putting some answers there. Of course, that’s only my point of view, there’s an official web page:(…)

Some myths about PostgreSQL vs. Oracle

By Franck Pachot . I originally wrote this as a comment on the following post that you may find on internet: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oracle-to-postgresql-reasons-to-migrate/ but my comment was not published (many links in it… I(…)

Azure Migrate: how to assess on-premises servers for a future Azure migration

Azure Migrate provides a set of tools to assess and migrate on-premise infrastructure like Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines, physical servers as well as SQL and other Databases, web application… The Azure Migrate overview page resumes the different key(…)

Documentum – Change/Rename of LDAP Config object

Using an LDAP Server with Documentum (or any ECM for that matter) is pretty common to avoid managing users locally. In this blog, I wanted to talk about something that isn’t very common and that is the change of an(…)

Power BI Report Server – URL reservation Warning – Delegation blocked

Introduction Recently I experienced some strange behavior on Power BI Report Server. My customer reported some failure when authenticating on shared data source using Kerberos delegation. On the test environment everything was working as expected and the delegation was working(…)