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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 : pg_hba_file_rules view

This short blog to share a helpful stuff with the pg_hba.conf file : The pg_hba.conf file is the central configuration file to control client authentication. It is located in the database cluster’s data directory : postgres@ppas01:/u02/pgdata/PG10BETA1/ [PG10BETA1] ll(…)

ODA X6 installation: re-image

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database Appliance is shipped with a bare-metal installation which may not be the latest version. You may want to have it virtualized, or get the latest version to avoid further upgrade, or install an(…)

12c Multitenant Internals: VPD for V$ views

By Franck Pachot . I described in an earlier post on AWR views how the dictionary views were using metadata and object links to show information from other containers. But this mechanism cannot work for fixed(…)

OUD 11.1.2.3 – ODSM Session Timeout

By William Sescu The ODSM is a quite powerful tool for managing the Oracle Unified Directory, and quite a lot of default settings are very reasonable. But there is one that disturbed me from the beginning. It is the ODSM(…)

12cR2 Application Containers and Foreign Keys

By Franck Pachot . Application Container brings a new way to share data among databases, and adds a new dimension to referential integrity. A foreign key in an application PDB can reference a row belonging to a root data link(…)

DBSAT un outil pour la sécurité de vos bases de données Oracle

Qu’est-ce que DBSAT ? C’est un outil gratuit d’Oracle que vous pouvez télécharger sur My Oracle Support avec comme référence : Doc Id 2138254.1. Il a pour but d’évaluer la sécurité de vos bases de données Oracle en analysant(…)

OUD 11.1.2.3 – How to create an OUD Start/Stop/Status script on Oracle Linux 6

By William Sescu One of the questions that pops up immediately, after you have installed your OUD successfully is how to integrate it into the automatic startup routines of the OS. My example here show how to do it on(…)

12c NSSn process for Data Guard SYNC transport

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/dataguard-wait-events-have-changed-in-12c/ I mentioned the new processes NSA for ASYNC transport and NSS for SYNC transport. I'm answering a bit late to a comment about the number of processes:(…)

A first look at EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 beta – Connecting a PostgreSQL instance

In the last post we did a click/click/click setup of the PEM server. What we want to do now is to attach a PostgreSQL instance to the PEM server for being able to monitor and administer it. For(…)

A first look at EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 beta

In case you missed it: EnterpriseDB has released the beta of Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 beta. When installation is as easy as for the current version that should just be a matter of clicking next, lets see.