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SLES15 SP1 – New features

With SLES15 SUSE introduced the Multimodal OS and the unified installer. Means, you only get what you really need. Your OS is flexible and you can easily add features you need and remove them as well. But this article shouldn't(…)

MariaDB 10.3.1x + 10.4.x : mysqld_multi not working properly

A couple of days ago, we upgraded some MariaDB instances on a consolidated database server. However, after the software update we were not able to manage our instances anymore using mysqld_multi whatever the MariaDB release (10.3.18 or the latest 10.4.x).

Patroni Operations – Changing Parameters

Sooner or later all of us have to change a parameter on the database. But how is this put into execution when using a Patroni cluster? Of course there are some specifics you have to consider. This post will give(…)

PostgreSQL 13 will come with partitioning support for pgbench

A lot of people use pgbench to benchmark a PostgreSQL instance and pgbench is also heavily used by the PostgreSQL developers. While declarative partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 there was no(…)

Provisioning a AKS cluster and KubeInvaders with Terraform

Provisioning a K8s infrastructure may be performed in different ways. Terraform has a connector called the Kubernetes provider but it doesn’t allow building and deploying a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster must be up and running before using the provider.

PostgreSQL check_function_bodies, what is it good for?

One of the probably lesser known PostgreSQL parameters is check_function_bodies. If you know Oracle, then you for sure faced "invalid objects" a lot. In PostgreSQL, by default, there is nothing like an invalid object. That implies(…)

AEM Forms – No SSLMutualAuthProvider available

In the process of setting up the AEM Workbench to use 2-way-SSL, you will need at some point to use a Hybrid Domain and a specific Authentication Provider. Depending on the version of the AEM that(…)

AEM Forms – “2-way-SSL” Setup and Workbench configuration

In the past two years almost, I have been working with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Forms. The road taken by this project was full of problem because of security constraints that AEM has/had big trouble dealing with. In this blog,(…)

Adding a dbvisit standby database on the ODA in a non-OMF environment

I have recently been working on a customer project where I had been challenged adding a dbvisit standby database on an ODA X7-2M, named ODA03. The existing customer environment was composed of Oracle Standard 12.2 version database. The primary database,(…)

Having multiple standby databases and cascading with dbvisit

Dbvisit standy is a disaster recovery solution that you will be able to use with Oracle standard edition. I have been working on a customer project where I had to setup a system having one primary and two standby databases.