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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,(…)

ODC Appreciation Day : Javascript in the database

By Franck Pachot . Tim Hall has launched the idea to post small blogs this day, from all the Oracle community, about an Oracle feature. I choose one feature that is only released in beta test(…)

Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . Larry Ellison has announced Oracle 18c to be the Autonomous Database, the no-human labor, and self-driven, database. Here is a quick recap of what it is behind the marketing words. My opinion only.

Changing the LOCALE in CentOS/RedHat 7

What I really don't like is this: Someone wants me to work on a Linux system for whatever purpose and then I get messages like this: postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [pg960final] cat /proc/sysrq-trigger cat: /proc/sysrq-trigger: Permission non accordée or: postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/ [pg960final] cat /proc/sysrq-trigger(…)

And finally it is there…PostgreSQL 10

What are you waiting for?(…)

udev rules for ASM devices on RHEL 7

Preparing the storage devices for use with ASM is one of the first tasks you should do. When you do not want to use ASMLib then udev is what you should use for this.

Going from SLES12 SP2 to SLES12 SP3, online

SLES 12 SP3 was released some time ago and as we have customers running on that I thought it might be a good idea to test the upgrade from SP2 to SP3. Actually it turned out this(…)

ODA X7

By Franck Pachot . ODA X6-2 So, the ODA X6 End of Life seems to be planned for October, and be careful, as far as I know, this concerns also the storage expansion. The main feedback from the X6-2 series(…)

SQL Server 2017 RTM is available: time to try!

Now SQL Server 2017 RTM  is available. 😀 The first step is to go to the Evaluation Center here After completing the registration with your contact information, you download the(…)