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RMAN in a Multitenant Environment

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)(…)

Moving oracle database to new home on ODA

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(…)

Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

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

Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

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(…)

POUG Conference 2019

POUG (Pint with Oracle users group) organized his annual conference on 6-7th September in Wroclaw in New Horizons Cinema.

Scripting is not Just a Series of Commands

I saw, several times now, scripts were it is just a series of commands, sometime just created with copy/paste and few changes. This is far from best practices in terms of readability, maintainability and debug (ability 🙂).

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to(…)

Documentum – Encryption/Decryption of WebTop 6.8 passwords ‘REJECTED’ with recent JDK

Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I will be talking about(…)

Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’

In a recent project on Alfresco, I had to setup a Clustering environment. It all went smoothly but I did face one single issue with the setup of the Clustering on the Alfresco Share layer. That’s something I never faced(…)

Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA

Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool(…)