Technology Survey SCOM: don’t forget to set the license key! 11.02.2015 by Stéphane Savorgnano 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(…)
Database management Security via policies 10.02.2015 by Stéphane Haby 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(…)
Application integration & Middleware Exception from executeScript in Alfresco Share 10.02.2015 by Morgan Patou 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(…)
Database management, Oracle Never gather WORKLOAD stats on Exadata… 09.02.2015 by Oracle Team 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(…)
Database management, Oracle Oracle multitenant dictionary: rowcache 08.02.2015 by Oracle Team 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(…)
Hardware & Storage Vsphere 6.0 improvements for Windows Failover Clusters 04.02.2015 by Microsoft Team 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(…)
Operating systems, Oracle IOUG Collaborate #C15LV 03.02.2015 by Oracle Team 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(…)
Application integration & Middleware SQL Server: Online index rebuild & minimally logged operations 30.01.2015 by Microsoft Team 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(…)
Enterprise content management Birst: an attractive “all-in-one” Business Intelligence solution 29.01.2015 by Alain Lacour 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.
Application integration & Middleware Documentum Multiple ADTS – Ratio of rendition creations between instances (Part 2) 29.01.2015 by Middleware Team 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(…)