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18c, Cloud First and Cloud Only features: think differently

By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the(…)

A free persistent Google Cloud service with Oracle XE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've listed several free online services which run an Oracle XE so that you can test your SQL easily. You may want use Oracle XE further, with full(…)

PDB upgrade from 12c to 18c

By Franck Pachot . Oracle 18c is out, in the Oracle Cloud, and the first thing I do with a new version is testing how long it takes to upgrade a previous version PDB by unplug/plug. Faster upgrade should be(…)

Configuring huge pages for your PostgreSQL instance, Debian version

In the last post we had a look at how you can configure huge pages on RedHat and CentOS systems. For Debian and Debian based systems the procedure is different as Debian does not come with(…)

Configuring huge pages for your PostgreSQL instance, RedHat/CentOS version

Almost every PostgreSQL I get in touch with is not configured to use huge pages, which is quite a surprise as it can give you a performance boost. Actually it is not the PostgreSQL instance you need(…)

ODA Lite: What is this ‘odacli’ repository?

By Franck Pachot . When ODA Lite was introduced, with ODA X6-2 S/M/L, and now with ODA x7-2 S/M, a new 'odacli' was there to manage it. It will probably replace the oakcli for ODA HA as well in the(…)

New SHA-2 functions showing up in PostgreSQL 11

A recent commit announced new SHA-2 functions coming up in PostgreSQL 11. Until now you can use the md5 function to generate hashes for test data or whatever you want. This commit adds more(…)

How to prevent RMAN archivelog backup from log switch

When RMAN backups archivelogs, it does a logswitch before backing up all archivelogs. In some cases this log switching should be suppressed. This can be done with expression “until time ‘sysdate'”, which actually filters nothing. For example: backup archivelog until(…)

ODA – manually resetting a CPU alert using Fault Manager

While supporting since several years ODAs of different generations and versions, we faced time to time some hardware alerts sent back by the ILOM. However all of them are not related to real hardware issues and are false positive. To(…)

ODA 12.2.1.2.0: Some curious password management rules

While deploying an ODA based on the DCS stack (odacli), it is mandatory to provide a "master" password at appliance creation. The web GUI provides for that a small tooltip which describes the rules applied on password management. However it(…)