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Using Apache JMeter to run load test on a Web applications protected by Microsoft Advanced Directory Federation Services

One of my last mission was to configure Apache JMeter for performance and load tests on a Web Application. The access to this Web Application requires authentication provided by a Microsoft Advanced Directory Federation Services single Sign On environment.

Manage Azure in PowerShell (RM)

Azure offers two deployment models for cloud components: Resource Manager (RM) and Classic deployment model. Newer and more easier to manage, Microsoft recommends to use the Resource Manager. Even if these two models can exist at(…)

Documentum story – IAPI login with a DM_TICKET for a specific user

During our last project, one of the Application Teams requested our help because they needed to execute some commands in IAPI with a specific user for which they didn’t know the password. They tried to use a DM_TICKET as I suggested(…)

How to destroy your performance: PL/SQL vs SQL

Disclaimer: This is in no way a recommendation to avoid PL/SQL. This post just describes a case I faced at a customer with a specific implementation in PL/SQL the customer (and me) believed is the most efficient way of doing(…)

MariaDB: audit plugin

Why should you Audit your MySQL Instances? First to provide you a way to track user accessing sensible data Secondly to investigate on suspicious queries in all your critical databases Thirdly to comply with law and industry standards(…)

Partitioning – When data movement is not performed as expected

This blog is about an interesting partitioning story and curious data movements during merge operation. I was at my one of my customer uses intensively partitioning for various reasons including archiving and manageability. A couple of days(…)

Documentum story – ADTS not working anymore?

A few weeks ago, on one of our Documentum environments, we find out thanks to our monitoring that the Renditions weren’t generated anymore by our CTS/ADTS Server… This happened in a Sandbox environment where a lot of dev/testing was done in(…)

How to install Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 using VirtualBox – part 3

In the two first blogs, I installed the Fuel environment and deployed OpenStack in the Fuel slave nodes and all of that from the Fuel Master node. In this blog, I will show you  all the steps to follow in(…)

Documentum story – dm_LogPurge and dfc.date_format

What is the relation between dfc.date_format and dm_LogPurge? This is the question we had to answer as we hit an issue. An issue with the dm_LogPurge job. As usual once a repository has been created we are configuring several Documentum(…)

OTN Appreciation Day : External tables

As part of the OTN Appreciation Day (see https://oracle-base.com/blog/2016/09/28/otn-appreciation-day/) I’m writing about one of my favorite Oracle features: External tables. Traditionally people loaded data in an Oracle database using SQL*Loader. With the introduction of external tables, SQL*Loader became obsolete (in(…)