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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(…)

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(…)