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OBUG 2019 – First event from Oracle Users Group in Belgium!

Introduction It’s the first edition of the Techdays, the Oracle community event in Belgium. This event happened in Antwerp these past 2 days, and a lot of speakers came from around the world to talk about their experience on focused(…)

What are custom and generic plans in PostgreSQL?

I have already written a post about prepared statements in PostgreSQL some time ago. What I did not mention in that post is the concept of generic and custom plans. So lets have a look at(…)

Documentum – MigrationUtil – 2 – Change Docbase Name

You are attending the second episode of the MigrationUtil series, today we will change the Docbase Name. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. I did this change on Documentum CS 16.4(…)

Documentum – Process Builder Installation Fails

A couple of weeks ago, at a customer I received an incident from the application team regarding an error occurred when installing Process Builder. The error message was: "The Process Engine license has not been enabled or is invalid in(…)

Italian Oracle User Group Tech Days 2019

The Italian Oracle User Group (ITOUG) is an independent group of Oracle enthusiasts and experts which work together as volunteers to promote technical knowledge sharing in Italy.

Recover a corrupted datafile in your DataGuard environment 11G/12C.

On a DG environment, a datafile needs to be recovered on the STANDBY site, in two situations : when is deleted or corrupted. Below, I will explain  how to recover a corrupted datafile, in order to be able to(…)

Restart a failed transportable tablespace import during a cross platform incremental backup migration

I’m currently working in a project to migrate a 11g-Datawarehouse-database from Solaris to Linux Intel (Endian-change). We do use the cross platform incremental backups method as described in My Oracle Support Note 1389592.1 for that. I.e. incremental backups are(…)

PostgreSQL 12: Detach postmaster process from pg_ctl’s session at server startup

Recently a commit landed in the PostgreSQL development tree that made me aware of something I did not know so far: When you start PostgreSQL with a script using pg_ctl and that(…)

How To Deploy Office Web Apps Server 2013

The 4 Steps Of Office Web Apps Server 2013 Installation Office Web Apps provides browser-based versions of Excel, One Note, Word and PowerPoint. It also helps users who access files through SharePoint 2013. The objective of this topic is to(…)

Documentum – MigrationUtil – 1 – Change Docbase ID

This blog is the first one of a series that I will publish in the next few days/weeks regarding how to change a Docbase ID, Docbase name, aso in Documentum CS. So, let’s dig in with the first one: Docbase(…)