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12cR2: How long to upgrade a PDB?

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I described how simple it is to unplug a PDB and plug it into a newer version CDB. One goal of dictionary separation in the multitenant architecture is(…)

12cR2: Upgrade by unplug/plug in the Oracle Cloud Service

By Franck Pachot . 12.2 is available in the Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS. If you have a 12.1 DBaaS service, there's no button to upgrade it. I'll describe all the possible upgrade procedures and the first one, and the most(…)

Amazon Web Services: Upgrade to Dbvisit Standby 8

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog we installed Dbvisit Standby 7 on two AWS linux instances. In this article we are just upgrading to Dbvisit Standby 8. The first thing is to stop on both nodes dbvnet and dbvserver(…)

Installing Dbvisit Standby 7 between two AWS Linux Instances

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dbvisit is compatible with Amazon Cloud. In this article we are going to talk about installation of Oracle SE2 and Dbvisit Standby 7 between 2 AWS linux instances. We suppose that ssh equivalence is configured for user(…)

First installation of SQL Server on Linux REHL 7.2

As you certainly know Microsoft announced yesterday the first preview of SQL Server vNext on Linux. Obviously we are far from a final version suitable for production and the list of unsupported features will probably be good indicator of the(…)

SQL Server 2016 SP1 and unlocked enterprise features!

Starting with the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1, you will probably notice that the standard edition will benefit from a lot of features previously available only on Enterprise edition. Such features concern different areas as performance,(…)

Run SQL Server everywhere!

Running SQL Server everywhere is not a dream anymore!  Microsoft has just announced the first release of SQL Server CTP1 on Linux today! But that’s not all! SQL Server Vnext is also available on Windows,(…)

12cR2: CREATE_FILE_DEST for PDB isolation

By Franck Pachot . Two years ago I filled an OTN idea to 'Constrain PDB datafiles into specific directory' and made it an enhancement request for 12c Release 2. When you provision a PDB, the PDB(…)

Managing My Amazon Web Services Redhat Instance

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a precedent Blog I talked about how to create an AWS linux instance. Some questions can be: How to create a new user and to connect with, how to transfert files from my(…)

Linux Instance in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this article I will talk about how to create a linux machine in the cloud amazon AWS. For testing a trial account can be created. Once registered, we can connect by using(…)