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Oracle 20c : Create a Far Sync Instance Is Now Easy

By Mouhamadou Diaw A far sync instance is like a standby instance as it can receive redo from the primary database and can ship that redo to other members of the Data Guard configuration. But unlike a physical standby instance,(…)

Patching Oracle Database Appliance From 18.8 to 19.6

By Mouhamadou Diaw The ODA software 19.6 is released and people are starting to patch. A direct patch to version 19.6 is possible from version 18.8. Before patching your deployment to Oracle Database Appliance release 19.6, you must(…)

Documentum – D2-REST Privileged Client utility 16.7+ fails with class not found

In previous blogs, I already talked about how to fix issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility (for 16.4.0, 16.5.0 and 16.5.1) as well as how to execute/use this utility for automatic/silent(…)

pgBackRest – a simple privileges-related issue

I recently had to replace Barman by pgBackRest as Backup & Recovery solution for one of my customer. The purpose of this blog is not to show how I made the setup (some(…)

Dbvisit – Switchover failing with ORA-00600 error due to Unified Auditing been enabled

I have been recently deploying dbvisit version 9.0.10 on Standard Edition SE2 18.7. Graceful switchover failed with error : ORA-00600: Interner Fehlercode, Argumente: [17090], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [],[], [] (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)(…)

Applying archive log on a standby is failing with error ORA-00756: recovery detected a lost write of a data block

During one last ODA project, I was deploying dbvisit software version 9.0.10 on Oracle database SE Edition version 18.7. From time to time I was getting lost write of a data block with type KTU UNDO on the standby. Through(…)

Error getting repository data for ol6_x86_64_userspace_ksplice, repository not found

During ODA deployment I could see that starting 18.7, immediately after reimaging or patching the ODA, I was getting some regular errors in the root mail box. The error message came every hour at 13 minutes and 43 minutes.

Documentum Upgrade – Switch from Lockbox to AEK key

As you probably know already, Documentum removed the support for RSA Libraries and RSA Lockbox starting with Documentum version 16.7. This means that if you are planning to upgrade to 16.7 or higher versions, you will first need to remove(…)

티베로 – The AWR-like “Tibero Performance Repository”

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I introduced Tibero as The most compatible alternative to Oracle Database. Compatibility is one thing but one day you will want to compare the performance. I'll not do(…)

How to add storage on ODA X8-2M

Recently I had to add some storage on an ODA X8-2M that I deployed early February. At that time the last available release was ODA 18.7. In this post I would like to share my experience and the challenge I(…)