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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(…)

What’s the consequence of NOLOGGING loads?

By Franck Pachot . When you load data in direct-path and have the NOLOGGING attribute set, you minimize redo generation, but you take the risk, in case of media recovery, to loose the data in the blocks that you’ve(…)

How to remap tablespaces using Oracle Import/Export Tool

Since Oracle 10g, Oracle provides a great tool to import and export data from databases: Data Pump. This tool offers several helpful options, particularly one that allows to import data in a different tablespace than the source database. This parameter(…)

Oracle 12.1.0.2.1 Set to Join Conversion

By Franck Pachot . Recently, I described the Partial Join Evaluation transformation that appeared last year in Oracle 12c. I did it as an introduction for another transformation that appeared long time ago in 10.1.0.3 but was not(…)

How to find the SQL Server Management Pack in the SCOM database

While working on a customer project, I needed to retrieve the SQL Server SCOM Management Pack version. Unfortunately, the SCOM team took a while to answer and as I am the DBA, I have access to the SCOM databases.

Deploying a SQL Server database to Azure

Deploying an SQL Server database to a Windows Azure virtual machine is a feature introduced with SQL Server 2014. It can be useful for an organization  that wants to reduce its infrastucture management, simplify the deployment, or have a(…)

Documentum: some useful queries (DQL/IAPI)

In this blog post I want to sharing some useful DQL and IAPI queries that I am using all the time. They are more dedicated to Documentum support/debug and grouped by components. In order to use them, I recommend Qdman:(…)