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What will happen to your spare clones during a switchover on ExaCC?

As you might know, on ExaCC, it is possible to create spare clones. This is based on snapshot technology. There is no physical copy and the modified blocks will be written to the sparse clone, and in our case these(…)

Try YaK for free with YaK Demo

dbi services makes free demo environments available to all, so that you can play with the YaK and deploy instances and components to Azure and AWS. The YaK Demo environment is hosted on one of dbi services AWS(…)

dbaascli database move failing with ORA-01691 on ExaCC

I recently had to move a database from a 19.23 to a 19.26 dbhome on an ExaCC. This will include the database to be patched. The command dbaascli database move failed during the datapatch steps with following error: DBD::Oracle::st execute(…)

What brings the M-Files and Microsoft 365 Strategic Partnership

On the 1st of July 2025 M-Files and Microsoft announced their strategic partnership with the headline “M-Files and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership Revolutionising Document Management”I was wondering myself what does this will mean for us(…)

Dctm – Invalid/Missing XSRF token on D2

During an upgrade project to Documentum 23.4, I faced yet again another interesting behavior from D2. The Documentum Server upgrade happened properly for all components like the Connection Broker, Repositories, D2, etc… The OTDS was also setup and available/working properly(…)

Scheduling OpenSCAP reports in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

As we’ve recently supported some customers on SUSE Multi Linux Manager I’d like share something which was not as easy to implement as it appeared to be in the first place. But first of all, what(…)

Make working together easy with M-Files Hubshare.

You’ve probably heard the expression “Sharing is caring” and at dbi services, sharing (our knowledge) is one of our core values. However, when it comes to data, caution is key. These days, collaboration is a necessity, not an option.Yet, all(…)

SQL Server 2025 – Optimized Locking

Within the past few days I was investigating one of the new features of SQL Server 2025: Optimized Locking. I was curious about the capabilities, the behaviour and as well the limits of the feature. Optimized Locking is based on(…)

dbhome prepatch failing on ODA due to missing sqldeveloper files

I have been recently patching RAC databases on ODA 2-HA configured with Data Guard from version 19.20 to 19.26. During prepatch I have been facing an issue with missing sqldeveloper files, for which I could find a solution. I would(…)

SQL Server 2025 – OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL

Within the past few days I was investigating another new feature of SQL Server 2025: OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL. I was curious about the capabilities and the behaviour. OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL is a database scoped configuration which allows us to get rid of the overhead(…)