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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(…)

Archivelog deletion policy on Data Guard configuration

By Franck Pachot . The deletion policy on a dataguard configuration should be: CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO APPLIED ON ALL STANDBY; for the site where you don't backup. It can be the standby or the primary. and: CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG(…)

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

PostgreSQL Index Suggestion With Powa

By Mouhamadou Diaw A few time ago my colleague Daniel did a blog about POWA. In a nice article he shown how this tool can be used to monitor our PostgreSQL. In this present(…)

Managing Oracle Big Data Cloud – CE with REST API

In this blog post, we will see how to manage Oracle Public Cloud Big Data service Compute Edition with REST API. Scheduling the start/stop/restart of a metered PaaS in the Oracle Cloud can be interesting for managing efficiently the consumption(…)

Documentum: IndexAgent uninstalled continues to queue requests

We had a strange behavior by a customer regarding the indexing queue. We used to have two IA configured and we uninstalled one. I figured out that we still had indexing queue requests for the old index agent while(…)

SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 New Features

Regularly, Microsoft SQL Server comes up with its new features, and in particular SSMS 2017 17.3 in this post, i present you a new feature : Import flat files Wizard How does it works : Open SSMS, and(…)

Oracle Database Multilingual Engine (MLE)

By Franck Pachot . My ODC appreciation blog post was about Javascript in the database running in the beta of the Oracle Database Multilingual Engine (MLE). Here I'll detail my first test which is a comparison,(…)