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Alfresco – Unable to move/rename a file/folder using AOS

When playing with the AOS implementation, a colleague of mine faced an interesting issue where he just wasn’t able to move or rename any files or folders. The creation and deletion were working properly but he was unable to move(…)

WebLogic – SSO/Atn/Atz – 403 Forbidden, another issue

Earlier today, I posted another blog with almost the same title but the similarities stop here. The thing is that when you access your application, there aren’t much error(…)

WebLogic – SSO/Atn/Atz – 403 Forbidden, a first issue

In a previous blog, I explained how it was possible to enable the SSO/Atn/Atz (SSO/Authentication/Authorization) debug logs in order to troubleshoot an issue. In this blog, I will(…)

Transfer redo in async-mode to the Gold/Master copy of the Production DB for ACFS snapshots

If you store your databases on the cluster filesystem ACFS you may use the provided Perl-script gDBClone from OTN to clone databases or create snapshot databases. It is an interesting approach to create clones from the Production DB(…)

How to rename an existing Fusion Middleware WebLogic Domain

Some times it happens that we need to rename an existing fusion Middleware WebLogic domain. I was asked to do such on a Fusion Middleware Reports & Forms environment. I took some time to check how this can be(…)

impdp logtime=all metrics=y and 12cR2 parallel metadata

By Franck Pachot . A quick post to show why you should always use LOGTIME=ALL METRICS=Y when using Data Pump. Just look at an example showing the timestamp in front of each line and a message about each task completed(…)

Dataguard: QUIZZ on Snapshot Standby

By Mouhamadou Diaw In oracle documentation we can find this about snapshot standby: A snapshot standby database is a fully updatable standby database that provides disaster recovery and data protection benefits that are similar to those of a physical standby(…)

Are statistics immediately available after creating a table or an index in PostgreSQL?

While giving the last PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop this question came up: When we create a table or an index: are the statistics available automatically? To be more precise: When we create and load a table in(…)

DBVISIT from Oracle to Postgres

As I regularly work on Oracle and PostgreSQL, I decided to test the replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL using the Dbvisit Replicate tool. Dbivisit Replicate does not use Oracle logminer ot triggers but its own mining processes to(…)

WebLogic – SSO/Atn/Atz – How to enable debug logs

Let’s say that you have an application deployed on a WebLogic Server and that the SSO/Atn/Atz (SSO/Authentication/Authorization) isn’t working or throwing a 4xx error code like ‘401 – Unauthorized’ or ‘403 – Forbidden’. How would you be able to know(…)