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Connecting to Azure SQL Managed Instance from on-premise network

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up about my first immersion into the SQL Server managed instances (SQLMIs), a new deployment model of Azure SQL Database which provides near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server(…)

Oracle 18c: Cluster With Oracle ASM Filter Driver

By Mouhamadou Diaw During the installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you can optionally enable automated installation and configuration of Oracle ASM Filter Driver for your system with the Configure ASM Filter Driver check box on the Create ASM Disk Group(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – xPlore IndexAgent

In previous blogs, we installed in silent the Documentum binaries (CS), a docbroker (+licence(s)(…)

A SQLite extension for gawk (part III)

Welcome to part III of a three-part article on extending gawk with a SQLite binding. Part I is here. Part II is(…)

SCAN listener does not know about service

When trying to connect to a database via SCAN listener in a RAC environment with sqlplus, an ORA-12514 error is thrown. Tnsping can resolve the connect string. Whereas connecting to the same database over node listener with sqlplus succeeds. One(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – xPlore binaries & Dsearch

In previous blogs, we installed in silent the Documentum binaries (CS), a docbroker (+licence(s)(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – Remote Docbases/Repositories (HA)

In previous blogs, we installed in silent the Documentum binaries, a docbroker (+licence(s) if(…)

SQL Server Tips: How many different datetime are in my column and what the delta?

Few months ago, a customer asks me for finding in a column, how many rows exist with the same date & time and the delta between them. The column default value  is based on the function(…)

Dbvisit 8 Standby Daemon on Windows

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog, we have installed Dbvisit standby for Windows on both servers. We suppose that the database is created and that the standby is configured (see this blog). The steps are(…)

Install Dbvisit 8 on Windows

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog we described how to install dbvisit standby in a Linux box. In this article I am going to describe the installation on a Windows machine. We are using(…)