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SOUG Day October 2026

What a great and interesting day I could spent today at the SOUG Day which took place at the SIX ConventionPoint in Zurich. Thanks to the whole SOUG team for the great organization and to all the speakers for(…)

Zabbix – the Swiss Army knife of monitoring

In today’s data-driven economy, downtime isn’t just an IT headache; it’s a direct hit to your bottom line. As modern environments grow more complex, spanning hybrid clouds, edge devices, and massive enterprise clusters, Zabbix monitoring provides the single source of(…)

Oracle Reports: REP-50125: An internal exception occurred

A client contacted me after an operating system upgrade and the restart of an Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. The application servers were running. The ADF applications appeared healthy. Both Oracle Reports Server processes were also reported(…)

FabCon 2026 Barcelona: Artificial Intelligence Takes Center Stage in Microsoft Fabric

I recently had the opportunity to attend FabCon 2026 in Barcelona, Microsoft’s flagship event dedicated to Microsoft Fabric data, analytics, Artificial Intelligence and and SQL Server. As a Technology Leader data analytics and quality, attending events like FabCon enables(…)

AI meets OEM, let’s test Oracle AI Database Assistant

I have been recently blogging on how I have setup Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai lab, installed an agent and finally configured Oracle AI Database Assistant. It's time for me to test it now.

Oracle Fusion Middleware to the Cloud

More and more often, we are contacted to assess, challenge, and advise on the migration of Oracle Fusion Middleware platforms to the cloud. These discussions usually involve critical environments based on Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Forms, and sometimes Oracle Reports.

JBoss EAP: From Traditional Application Server to Modern Enterprise Runtime

When discussing modern application platforms, JBoss EAP is rarely the technology that creates the most excitement. Today, the attention is more often on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Quarkus, serverless platforms, service meshes, GitOps, and(…)

Deleting GoldenGate trail files via the REST API (OGG-30375)

When automating your GoldenGate deployments, or tearing down a test environment, handling trail files is important. In fact, deleting an extract or a replicat does not delete the trail files it was writing to or reading from. It leaves(…)

Permissions: design for trust, not for control

A user needs a contract in order to respond to a customer. They open the ECM, search for it, but can’t find it. The contract exists, but they don’t have access to it. They therefore send a message to(…)

Archiving 5 TB from Oracle into SQL Server: a migration logbook (part 1)

Loading 5 TB from Oracle into SQL Server with SSMA: type overflows, heaps, and the settings that took 788 rows/s to 42,170.