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Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle

Oracle 19c : Point-In-Time Recovery in a PDB

20.09.2019 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw Point-In-Time Recovery is also possible in a multitenant environment. As in Non-CDB, a recovery catalog can be used or not. In this blog we will see how to recover a dropped tablespace in a PDB. We will(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring, SQL Server

When Read-Scale availability groups and Windows Failover Cluster are not good friends

20.09.2019 by Microsoft Team

A couple of days ago, with some fellow French data platform MVPS (@thesqlgrrrl and @Conseilit) we discussed an issue around Read-Scale(…)

DevOps, Kubernetes

OpenShift 4.1 Partner Introduction Day

18.09.2019 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today was the OpenShift Partner Introduction Day by RedHat. This event happened at Lausanne There were people with different backgrounds. After presenting the RedHat compagny, the speaker explained what is Openshifts and why people must adopt(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring, Hardware & Storage, Oracle

ODA X8-2: the new generation

17.09.2019 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction ODA X7-2 marked the maturity of the Oracle Database Appliance evolution, with 3 models suitable for nearly all customers using Oracle databases. The X7-2M was my favorite, with a lots of cores available (and restrainable), enough memory for dozens(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes

How to get a big picture of K8s pods and PVs by script

14.09.2019 by Microsoft Team

A couple of weeks ago, during an internal dbi services workshop about Docker and K8s, I got an interesting question: is it possible to get a big picture of pods connected to one specific persistent volume(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle

RMAN in a Multitenant Environment

13.09.2019 by Oracle Team

By Mouhamadou Diaw The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery with pluggable databases (PDBs)(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle

Moving oracle database to new home on ODA

13.09.2019 by Marc Wagner

Moving database to new ORACLE_HOME is a common dba task. Performing this task on an ODA will need an additional step knowing ODA Lite is using an internal Derby database for the metadata. ODA HA will not be a problem(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

10.09.2019 by Daniel Westermann

Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.

Database Administration & Monitoring, SQL Server

Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

10.09.2019 by Microsoft Team

SQL Server 2019 RC1 was released out a few weeks ago and it is time to start blogging about my favorite core engine features that will be shipped with the next version of SQL Server. Things should not be completely(…)