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Thinking about downgrading from Oracle Enterprise to Standard Edition?

By Franck Pachot . You are using an Oracle Enterprise Edition and thinking about downgrading to the Standard Edition? In this case, you must be sure that your applications are compatible. It’s not something easy to check. Here are(…)

Documentum upgrade project – ActiveX and D2-Client 3.1Sp1

This is another blog posting an our Documentum upgrade project. This time, the following issue occured: the ActiveX could not be installed using the D2-Client. We had to access the D2-Config url to have it installed. For a normal user,(…)

Kerberos SSO with Liferay 6.1

In my previous blog, I described the process to install a Kerberos Client and how to Kerberized Alfresco. In this blog, I will continue in the same way and present another application that could be configured to use(…)

MySQL high availability management with ClusterControl

Installing and managing a highly available MySQL infrastructure can be really tedious. Solutions to facilitate database and system administrator’s task exist, but few of these cover the complete database lifecycle and address all the database infrastructure management requirements. Severalnines’ product(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – AWR Warehouse

This post explains how to configure and use the new AWR warehouse functionality present in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.4. This new feature offers the possibility to store date from the AWR of your main databases in the EM AWR(…)

Documentum upgrade project – Documentum Administrator and ACS

After having installed the Documentum Administrator, one of our test was to open a document. When I opened one for the first time the content was empty although I knew it contained text. But the correct content was well displayed when I(…)

Documentum upgrade project – D2EventSenderMailMethod & bug with Patch 12

We started the Documentum upgrade in the wintertime and our jobs ran successfully by following the defined schedule. Once we moved to the summertime we hit an issue: A job that was scheduled for instance at 4:00 AM was executed(…)

Oracle: How to move OMF datafiles in 11g and 12c

By Franck Pachot . With OMF datafiles, you don’t manage the datafile names. But how do you set the destination when you want to move them to another mount point? Let’s see how easy (and online) it works in(…)

Resize your Oracle datafiles down to the minimum without ORA-03297

By Franck Pachot . Your datafiles have grown in the past but now you want to reclaim as much space as possible, because you are short on filesystem space, or you want to move some files without moving empty(…)

Documentum upgrade project – sharing experience

A few weeks ago, we finished a Documentum upgrade at a customer site. Now, after having analyzed and made a status point (we do that after each upgrade project to optimize our procedures and skills) it is time to share(…)