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The hidden cost of “Quick Wins” in ECM projects

This is the fourth and final blog post in the series, that highlights the drawbacks of poor ECM implementation. In almost every enterprise content management (ECM) initiative, the phrase “Let’s get some quick wins” appears early, often with(…)

Delete a GoldenGate deployment when the password is lost

Recently, I was asked how to recreate a GoldenGate deployment if the password for the Security user (the first user created with the deployment) was lost. This is an interesting question that I figured was worth writing about.

Beyond TDE and TLS: Bridging the Data Security Governance Gap in Lower Environments

Why one layer is never enough, why dev environments are your biggest GDPR gap, and how to industrialize their governance.

Not enough space for using ODABR? Reduce /u01 and /opt size on your ODA

Introduction The patching of an Oracle Database Appliance needs to be secured. This is because it won’t limit to patching the databases: there is plenty of other components embedded with the patch, the goal being to keep everything updated.

Bulk Update of GoldenGate Extract Profiles

After writing blogs about Default profile updates and a bug affecting profiles in GoldenGate 26ai, I realized it would be a good idea to present a quick way to update all(…)

Loosing java remote console full control during ODA Reimage

Recently I had to patch an ODA at one of our customer from 19.20 to 19.26, going through 19.24. As you are aware of, knowing we go from Oracle Linux 7 (19.20) to Oracle Linux 8 (19.24), we need to(…)

The day your ECM System became unusable

It started like any normal Tuesday.No alarms. No warning signs. No urgent emails flooding inboxes before 8 AM.Just a regular working day, until people tried to open documents.At first, it was a single complaint.“Hey, I can’t access the invoice(…)

PostgreSQL 19: Importing statistics from remote servers

Usually we do not see many foreign data wrappers being used by our customers. Most of them use the foreign data wrapper for Oracle to fetch data from Oracle systems. Some of them use the(…)

GoldenGate 26ai Logs Explained

GoldenGate logs are a powerful source of information when troubleshooting or analyzing your deployments. However, there is at least one log file per service in the Microservices Architecture. This means that for a GoldenGate setup with multiple deployments, you(…)

Create Distribution Paths in NGINX-Secured GoldenGate 26ai

Setting up a distribution path is an important step when connecting two GoldenGate deployments. However, there are so many connection options that it’s hard to know how to proceed. In this blog, I will present the way to connect(…)