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Pass Summit 2017

Today starts the Pass Summit 2017 taking place in Seattle. After a small fly over the Ocean, more than 10 hours… yesterday, and a nice jet lag which avoid me to sleep later than 4AM this morning, I arrived(…)

PASS SUMMIT 2017 – SQL Server Security

Today is the first day of the PASS SUMMIT 2017 in Seattle (WA). The weather is cloudy and we have only 11°C… but where is the problem? Everything happens inside! (at the Convention(…)

Enable Trusted Content Services (TCS) license in Documentum Content Server

The Trusted Content Services is a pack of features that you can enable/purchase to gain more security for your Content Server. The main key features are listed in this documentation: https://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h3138-security-ds.pdf In our case,(…)

Dbvisit replicate – SQL Developer chart

By Franck Pachot . Here is a quick SQL Developer report which display a chart about the Dbvisit replicate lag over the last hours(…)

Are temporary tables auto vacuumed in PostgreSQL?

While doing the EDB quiz at their booth last week at pgconfeu one of the questions was: Are temporary tables auto vacuumed? What do you think? My first thought was yes, but lets see. The first question(…)

Configuring Fusion Middleware 12C Reports Server with Single Sign On and External LDAP server

Most of the time when the Reports Server is configured with an Single Sign On Server, it uses the same external LDAP server as the Single Sign On Server. In our case, we used an Oracle Access Manager as(…)

New installed Fusion Middleware 12C Reports or Forms WebLogic Servers fails to start after configuring SSL

We installed a Fusion Middleware report and Forms 12.2.1.2.0 on a Linux Server. This was a single node Reports and Forms servers. After disabling the Non SSL Listen Port, we get below error in logs while starting the(…)

Max PDBs in Standard Edition

By Franck Pachot . Here is a small warning. In Standard Edition, you may expect that the features that are not available for your edition are blocked, but in 12.2 you can create more than one PDB in Standard Edition,(…)

StandbyFileManagement is set to MANUAL : Don’t panic

By Mouhamadou Diaw As you may know the parameter STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT enables or disables automatic standby file management. When automatic standby file management is enabled, operating system file additions and deletions on the primary database are replicated on the standby database.

Database is more than persistence. It is shared. My thoughts about Microservice Database.

By Franck Pachot . The development teams often see the database as a 'persistence layer' only. And sometimes it is mentioned that the database is always the cause of the problems, especially when implementing continuous integration and trying to be(…)