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How to create an Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) which gives us the possibility to create application with a performant database without to take care of the relying infrastructure. Azure SQL Database is based on the latest stable version of Microsoft(…)

Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure on Windows Server

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle Grid Infrastucture can be installed on Windows platform. The steps are the same that on other platforms. In this blog we are going to install Oracle GI 18c on Windows 2016.I have two disks on my(…)

Creating PostgreSQL users with a PL/pgSQL function

Sometimes you might want to create users in PostgreSQL using a function. One use case for this is, that you want to give other users the possibility to create users without granting them the right to do so. How is(…)

Direct NFS, ODM 4.0 in 12.2: archiver stuck situation after a shutdown abort and restart

A customer had an interesting case recently. Since Oracle 12.2. he got archiver stuck situations after a shutdown abort and restart. I reproduced the issue and it is caused by direct NFS since running ODM 4.0 (i.e. since 12.2.). The(…)

Bringing up an OpenShift playground in AWS

Before we begin: This is in no way production ready, as the title states. In a production setup you would put the internal registry on a persistent storage, you would probably have more than one master node and you would(…)

WebLogic – Update on the WLST monitoring

A few years ago, I wrote this blog about a WLST script to monitor a WebLogic Server. At that time, we were managing a Documentum Platform with 115 servers and now, it’s more than 700 servers(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS installation failure

A few weeks ago, I had a task to add a new CS into already HA environments (DEV/TEST/PROD) to better support the load on these environments as well as adding a new repository on all Content Servers. These environments were(…)

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part I)

Ideally, but not mandatorily, the management of Documentum processes is performed at the service level, e.g. by systemd. In my blog here, I showed how to configure init files for Documentum under(…)

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part II)

ok, Ok, OK, and the docker part ? In a minute. In part I of this 2-part article, we showed how traps(…)

Documentum – MigrationUtil – 4 – Change Host Name

In this blog I will change the Host Name, it comes after three blogs to change the Docbase ID, Docbase Name, and Server Config Name, hope that you(…)