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Oracle

Deploying 11.2.0.4 on a recent ODA

25.01.2023 by Jérôme Dubar

How to deploy 11gR2 database on a modern ODA(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Upgrade OEM 13c from R4 to R5

24.01.2023 by Mouhamadou Diaw

Upgrading Enterprise Manger Cloud Control can be tricky. In this blog I am describing an upgrade I did for a client. The source version is OEM13c R4 And the target version will be EM13c R5 Before starting I did following(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

How to submit a talk for a conference

23.01.2023 by Julia Gugel

I already did some talks at conferences and I had already the honor to select talks for a conference. During this talk selection I found some excellent examples on how to do to a proposal, but unfortunately also some examples(…)

Oracle

Configuring a SMTP relay on Oracle Linux Server v8

23.01.2023 by Marc Wagner

For some internal DMK (https://www.dbi-services.com/fr/produits/dmk-management-kit/) development I had to configure a SMTP relay on my VM. Purpose of the SMTP relay is to send the email locally from DMK without any authentication. This Email will be(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

SQL Server: Heap page deallocation and IndexOptimize

23.01.2023 by Steven Naudet

Introduction HEAP tables are a type of data structure that, unlike a clustered index table, does not have a specific ordering of its rows, making them faster to insert and delete data. They are often used for temporary “staging” tables.

Database Administration & Monitoring

PostgreSQL 16: reserved_connections

22.01.2023 by Daniel Westermann

The maximum number of connections that PostgreSQL will allow, is controlled by the max_connections parameter. By default this allows a maximum of one hundred connections: postgres=# show max_connections; max_connections ----------------- 100 (1 row) In reality not one hundred connections(…)

OMrun

A brief history of data quality or – the birth of OMrun. Part 2: Turning frustration into solution

20.01.2023 by Marc Keller

[If you have missed out on Part 1 of “A brief history of data quality or – the birth of OMrun.”, click here ] Imagine a meeting room (pick the one without windows…) with +25 application managers lined up(…)

Cloud

Hashicorp Vault. Install and quick first configuration

19.01.2023 by Alexandre Nestor

Introduction Keeping and using passwords in scripts is often an overlooked task, at least in the initial stages of development.This behavior poses serious security problems, and quite often, especially in scripts, one can find plaintext passwords.If the project uses Git,(…)

Ansible

Containers for Developers

19.01.2023 by Olivier Spiesser

As I am working on developing a component for YaK, I have to stick to standards on how to write code in Ansible as well as many other constraints regarding security. I always thought of docker(…)

OMrun

A brief history of data quality or – the birth of OMrun. Part 1: Complexity is only the first name

19.01.2023 by Marc Keller

It all started more than 15 years ago when the core business of OMIS AG (the previous owner of OMrun) was consulting services. At this time, senior consultant and CIO Frank Zeindler was engaged in a mandate for a major(…)