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SCOM: don’t forget to set the license key!

During some client testing operations I installed some months ago a version of System Center Operation Manager 2012 on a Virtual Machine. Today I try to open this version of SCOM to perform some new tests and I(…)

Security via policies

Few weeks ago, I presented the session on security via Policies for “Les journées SQL Server 2014”, organized by the French SQL Server User Group (GUSS) in Paris. I promised to post our policies script(…)

Exception from executeScript in Alfresco Share

I didn’t have the opportunity to post a new entry about Alfresco in this blog for a long time now, so I will fix this! In this blog entry, I will talk about a bug I encountered a few(…)

Never gather WORKLOAD stats on Exadata…

By Franck Pachot . For Exadata, oracle has introduced an ‘EXADATA’ mode which sets a high transfer rate (with IOTFRSPEED as in NOWORKLOAD statistics) and set a MBRC (as in WORKLOAD statistics). Those values are set rather than gathered(…)

Oracle multitenant dictionary: rowcache

By Franck Pachot . I’ve not finished with my investigation on 12c multitenant dictionary. Here, I’m checking how metadata links are managed by the dictionary cache (aka rowcache). As I did previously, I’ll create a metadata link function(…)

Vsphere 6.0 improvements for Windows Failover Clusters

A couple of days ago, VMWare announced vSphere 6.0. I guess many of our customers have been waiting for this new release and probably I will see in the next few months this new version rolled out on the(…)

IOUG Collaborate #C15LV

By Franck Pachot . The IOUG – Independant Oracle User Group – has a great event each year: the COLLABORATE. This year it’s in April 12-16, 2015 at The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. I’ll be(…)

SQL Server: Online index rebuild & minimally logged operations

A couple of days ago, I encountered an interesting case with a customer concerning a rebuild index operation on a datawarehouse environment. Let me introduce the situation: a “usual DBA day” with an almost usual error message found in your(…)

Birst: an attractive “all-in-one” Business Intelligence solution

The review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms has revealed a new challenger that could become one of the leader of this market: Birst – an interesting “all-in-one” BI solution.

Documentum Multiple ADTS – Ratio of rendition creations between instances (Part 2)

This is the second part of my previous blog concerning rendition creation ratio between two ADTS servers. In this part I will talk about another way of getting this ratio. In addition this one doesn’t require to enable auditing and(…)