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Oracle 12c – Automatic Control File Backups

By William Sescu By default, automatic control file backups are disabled (even with 12c), maybe for performance reasons. RMAN> SHOW CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name OCM121 are: CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF; # default And also good(…)

Oracle 12c – When the RMAN Dummy Instance does not start up …

By William Sescu Not too often, but sometimes you might run into a situation when you lose everything, your DB Files, your Controlfiles and even your spfile. In situations like that, you need to restore first your spfile, then your(…)

Documentum story – SSL Password for the JKS of the DSearch & IndexAgent (xPlore)

In a previous blog (click here), I described how to setup the DSearch and IndexAgent(s) in HTTPS using the Groovy script provided by EMC in newer(…)

Oracle 12c – When did my row change?

By William Sescu My good old DEPT table always had 4 rows with 4 different departments. However, I have noticed that a new row was inserted into the DEPT table and the row 50 popped up, and I would like to(…)

12c GTT private statistics and cursor invalidation

By Franck Pachot . Short summary of this post is that rolling invalidation do not occur when you gather statistics on Global Temporary Tables in 12c that have session statistic scope (which is the default) and this may cause too(…)

Documentum story – Status of IndexAgent not visible in HTTPS (xPlore)

In one of our project, we were using CS 7.2 P02 (upgraded later with P05) in correlation with xPlore 1.5 P02. With these versions, we wanted to setup the IndexAgents in HTTPS to have a completely secured environment. We choose(…)

Documentum story – User gets kicked out of D2 when navigating in D2Config

On a customer site, one of the users complained about being kicked out each time he wanted to create new documents in D2. This issue is happening in a default deployment of D2 and D2Config in a WebLogic Domain.We found(…)

Documentum story – Setup the DSearch & IndexAgent in HTTPS (xPlore)

In this blog, I will show you how to setup the Primary DSearch and IndexAgent in HTTPS for xPlore 1.5. The documentation about that is available on the EMC WebSite as always and the pdf name is: “xPlore 1.5 Installation(…)

Documentum story – Thumbnail Server not starting if docbases are down

In this blog, I will talk about the Thumbnail Server. It’s a component of Documentum that you can install on the Content Server to generate… thumbnails! Basically what it does is that it will work in correlation with the ADTS/CTS(…)

SQL Server 2016: Distributed availability groups and Cross Cluster migration

How to migrate an environment that includes availability groups from one Windows Failover Cluster to another one? This scenario is definitely uncommon and requires a good preparation. How to achieve this task depends mainly of your context. Indeed, we may(…)