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Oracle 23ai New Backup & Recovery Features

In this article I will give a short overview of some Backup & Recovery features in the new Oracle 23ai database. Meanwhile there are more than 300 new features in Oracle 23ai most of them reflecting artificial intelligence. I will(…)

The SUSECON 2024 in Berlin

As part of the SUSE partner program, we were warmly invited to attend the SUSECON 24 in Berlin with my colleague Jean-Philippe Clapot. A two and half days event where we joined the SUSE family to learn more about(…)

Import invoices into M-Files with ChronoScan

Use case Companies are looking for an end-to-end solution to handle their incoming invoices in a modern way. This means, with as less as possible human interaction and get paper-less as much as possible. As we are in modern ECM(…)

My first day at SUSECON 2024

It is mid-June, and I have the opportunity with my colleague Arnaud Berbier to go to Berlin. Not for visiting the city, not for sightseeing, but for a business conference. This year, SUSECON set its location in the(…)

Using local images with nerdctl build?

Following the issue I talked about in my last blog, I started building local images using “nerdctl” for OpenText Documentum 23.4. That worked properly for the first one, which was using the Red Hat base, to(…)

Push images to a Self-Signed Cert registry with Rancher Desktop

I recently had to work on creating some custom images for OpenText Documentum 23.4 that will run on Kubernetes but I faced some trouble while trying to push images with “dockerd” and “nerdctl”. Before I start talking about that, I(…)

Hogging Threads check in Apache Tomcat

In Apache Tomcat, there is a Stuck Thread Detector Valve which can be enabled pretty easily through the Tomcat “server.xml” file. I talked about that in a previous blog already and provided an AWK parser to(…)

Is DPR compatible with 12.1 databases running on your ODA?

Introduction Since patch version 19.21 (current one is 19.23), ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) X7, X8 and X9 will require the use of Data Preserving Reprovisioning (DPR) to get the patch. Unlike traditional patching, DPR erases the system disks but keeps(…)

Keep an eye on your SQL Agent jobs using T-SQL!

Introduction: A couple of weeks ago I had a customer who was interested in monitoring the duration of some of his SQL-Agent jobs. The jobs were running in a data warehouse environment and were executing some ETL processes for loading(…)

CloudNativePG – Scaling up and down

By now, if you followed the previous posts (here, here, here, here and here), we know quite a bit about how to use(…)