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Configure AFD with Grid Infrastructure software (SIHA & CRS) from very beginning.

Introduction : Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle(…)

User Session lost using ADF Application

In one of my missions, I was involved in a new Fusion Middleware 12C (12.2.1.2) installation with an ADF application and an Oracle report server instance deployments . This infrastructure is protected using an Access Manager Single Sign on(…)

EDB containers for OpenShift 2.3 – PEM integration

This blog refers to an older version of EDB's Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. A few days ago EnterpriseDB announced the availability of version 2.3 of the EDB containers for OpenShift. The main new feature in(…)

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Masking Data With PostgreSQL

By Mouhamadou Diaw I was searching a tool for anonymizing data in a PostgreSQL database and I have tested the extension pg_anonymizer. PostgreSQL_anonymizer is a set of SQL functions that remove personally identifiable values from a(…)

Redhat Forum 2018 – everthing is OpenShift

I had an exiting and informational day at Redhat Forum Zurich. After starting with a short welcome in the really full movie theater in Zurich Sihlcity, we had the great pleasure to listen to Jim Whitehurst. With humor he told(…)

[Oracle 18c new feature] Quick win to improve queries with Memoptimized Rowstore

With its 18th release Oracle comes with many improvements. Some of them are obvious and some of them more discrete. This is the case of the new buffer area (memory area) called the Memoptimize pool. This new area, part(…)

PII search using HCI

In a previous blog, we described how to install Hitachi Content Intelligence the solution of Hitachi Ventara for data indexing and search. In this blog post, we will see how we can use Hitachi Content Intelligence to perform the(…)

Using a database trigger to request a rendition

Some time ago, a colleague asked around if someone knew a way to automatically request a rendition right after a document was checked in. This looked like a trigger to me and TBOs are here for that, right ? Sure(…)

PDB lockdown with Oracle 18.3.0.0

The PDB lockdown feature offers you the possibility to restrict operations and functionality available from within a PDB, and might be very useful from a security perspective. Some new features have been added to the 18.3.0.0 Oracle version: You have(…)