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PostgreSQL 12: More progress reporting

PostgreSQL 9.6 introduced a new view called pg_stat_progress_vacuum which gives information about currently running vacuum processes. That was a great addition because since then you could easily estimate on how long a specific vacuum process will(…)

Cause for looping sssd

In RedHat Enterprise Linux 7, the sssd daemons can connect to active directory servers. Default behaviour is to update DNS entries dynamically. If a statical DNS entry already exists this can lead to a CPU consuming sssd_nss daemon.

The EDB filter log extension

This is another post dedicated to EnterpriseDB Postgres. Sometimes you may want to get specific messages not getting logged to the server's logfile or audit records. That might be specific error codes or, even more important, passwords you specify when(…)

Auditing with EDB Postgres Enterprise

It might be that there is a requirement to audit operations in the database. Maybe because of legal requirements, maybe because of security requirements or whatever. I've already written a post in the past describing what(…)

Windocks, SQL Server and Azure in our internal CI pipeline

During the last DevOps Day in Geneva, I presented a sample of our CI implementation related to our MSSQL DMK maintenance product(…)

Using operating system users to connect to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL supports many authentication methods by default and one of them is Ident authentication. Using that method you can use the users defined in the operating system and map them to users(…)

How To Push An Image Into Amazon ECR With Docker

8 Steps To Push An Image Into Amazon ECR With Docker Please bear in mind that Amazon elastic container registry (ECR) is a managed AWS Docker registry service. In this topic, we will use the Docker CLI to(…)

When you change the UNDO_RETENTION parameter, the LOB segment’s retention value is not modified

Below, I will try to explain, a particular case for the general error : ORA-01555 snapshot too old error.. Normally, when we have this error, we are trying to adapt the retention parameters or to tune our queries. SQL> show(…)

Documentum : Dctm job locked after docbase installation

A correct configuration of Documentum jobs is paramount, that's why it is the first thing we do after the docbase installation. A few days ago, I configured the jobs on a new docbase using DQL, and I got an error(…)

OpenText Enterprise World Europe 2019 – Day 3

Last but not least, today was mainly dedicated to demos and customer cases. It started with the global stream presenting some OpenText applications like Core for Quality: An application developed with AppWorks and integrated to Magellan. It was meant to(…)