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New Oracle Database Appliance X11 series for 2025

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 is not so old, but X11 is already out, available to order. Let’s find out what’s new for this 2025 series. What is an Oracle Database Appliance? ODA, or Oracle Database Appliance, is an engineered(…)

PostgreSQL 18: Change the maximum number of autovacuum workers on the fly

For PostgreSQL it is critical, that autovacuum is able to keep up with the changes to the instance. One of the parameters you can adapt for this is autovacuum_max_workers. This parameter controls how many worker process(…)

M-Files Ment: no code document automation solution in practice

Who has never experienced repetitive tasks writing documents based on similar layout content, making sure it is compliant. Don’t you think this activity is using a lot of your precious knowledge worker time and often include small errors or typos?(…)

Documentum – Login through OTDS without oTExternalID3

As you might know, Documentum “deprecated” (in reality disabled completely) the different Authentication Plugins that were bundled with a Documentum Server. That means that with recent versions of Documentum, you cannot login to your LDAP-managed account anymore without having configured(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – OTDS

A bit more than 6 years ago (already), I wrote a series of blogs about the silent install of some standard Documentum component. It included things from the binaries, the Docbroker (Connection(…)

M-Files Ment Integration configuration

In this blog we will be looking at the configuration of M-Files Ment Integration into an M-Files vault. We will discuss the configuration, the benefits and learn how to work with it.This is a follow-up to the webinar I hosted(…)

FreeBSD basics – 8 – Running Linux Containers

When people talk about containers in FreeBSD, they usually talk about Jails. We’ve already seen how this works in general here and here. An additional option you have, is to install(…)

Oracle Database Replay for a RAC environment

The database Capture/Replay feature of the Real Application Testing (RAT) suite enables you to capture the workload from a production database and replay it on a test or development environment. This allows for realistic testing of database changes, such as(…)

Microsoft Foundry in Action: Building Smarter AI Solutions with Your Data

1        Introduction At the 2024 edition of Microsoft Ignite, two key themes dominated the stage: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Security. These pillars reflect the current and future technological landscape. Staying true to its innovative legacy, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Foundry, a(…)

FreeBSD basics – 7 – The Linux compatibility layer

Now that we know how to work with the ports collection let’s have a look another option you have in FreeBSD: Sometimes it might be required to run unmodified Linux binaries on FreeBSD and to achieve(…)