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dbvisit StandbyMP with Oracle SE2 – switchover error with ORA-27125

After having recently deployed a new customer system running Oracle SE2 databases in Disaster Recovery environment using dbvisit StandbyMP v11.4.1 on Oracle Linux 8.8, I did some final test running a switchover. The switchover failed with following error: ORA-27125: unable(…)

dbvisit StandbyMP with Oracle SE2 – ERROR_CODE:808 Database in unknown mode (94). Setup cannot proceed.

I recently deployed a new installation at one customer with 2 linux servers and 2 Oracle SE2 databases with dbvisit StandbyMP v11 disaster recovery solution. I prepared the standby database using RMAN duplication method, and then just wanted to create(…)

PostgreSQL 17: Support for incremental backups

When it comes to backing up and and restoring a PostgreSQL cluster, most of our customers rely either on pgBackRest or Barman. The reason for this is pretty clear: Both of those(…)

HowTo – Work with files in Documentum iAPI

As part of my daily work at our Documentum customers, I often have to work on files like creating some dummy documents, retrieving the content of a specific document on the file system, etc… Documentum does that well internally and(…)

Zabbix in the Middle of Prometheus and Grafana

In this blog post, I will show you how to gather metrics from a OpenTelemetry interface from a Zabbix server and how to display Zabbix data in Grafana. Why Should I do that? First, you might wonder why should you(…)

pgconf.eu 2023 – First participation

I am thrilled to share that I had the opportunity to attend the 13th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe in Prague which took place between the 12th and the 15th of December. It was my first participation(…)

And suddenly it’s already over again – pgconf.eu 2023

Last week was the week of the European PostgreSQL Conference in Prague which I was allowed to join once more. An amazing location was waiting for all the participants and once I entered the hotel, I already felt(…)

2023.pgconf.eu – recap

This year’s edition of PostgreSQL Conference Europe finished last Friday, the 15th of December. It was the largest ever PostgreSQL Conference Europe with more than 700 attendees. For me the week already started on Monday, because(…)

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite complex(…)

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually configure(…)