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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(…)

How to install Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 using VirtualBox – part 2

The  last blog ended up with a successful installation of the Fuel Master. In this blog, I will deploy Openstack on the three Fuel slave nodes. The first node will be the controller node and all(…)

How to install Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 using VirtualBox – part 1

In this series of  blogs, I am going to  give a quick overview of OpenStack and learn how to install it using Mirantis. “Mirantis is the #1 pure play OpenStack company. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other(…)

OTN Appreciation Day : OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWBBA)

Following my last blog post about OSWatcher, I will present in this one OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWBBA), which is the tool that you can use to display graphically the data collected by OSWBB. This tool is(…)

OTN Appreciation Day : OSWatcher Black Box (OSWBB)

In this post, I will present a usefull and easy-to-use Oracle tool : OSWatcher. What is it ? OSWatcher Black Box (OSWBB), for its full name, is a free Oracle Tool which will help you to diagnose(…)

OTN Appreciation Day – tnsping

By William Sescu Tim Hall had the idea that as many people as possible would write a small blog post about their favorite Oracle feature and we all post them on the same day. I do have a lot of favorite(…)

OTN Appreciation Day : ADVM

Tim Hall had the idea that as many people as possible would write a small blog post about their favorite Oracle feature and we all post them on the same day. Here is my favorite feature: ADVM -(…)

Oracle 12c – Managing RMAN persistent settings via SQL

By William Sescu RMAN persistent settings can be managed in two different ways. Via the RMAN interface – e.g. RMAN> CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON; Via SQL – e.g. VARIABLE RECNO NUMBER; EXECUTE :RECNO := SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.SETCONFIG(‘BACKUP OPTIMIZATION’,’ON’); There(…)

Documentum story – Manual deployment of X DARs on Y docbases

In a previous blog (click here), I presented a common issue that might occur during the installation of some DARs and how to handle that with what Documentum(…)