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PostgreSQL 17: Incremental backups and backup chains

In the last post about the introduction of incremental backups for PostgreSQL 17 we’ve looked at the basic concepts of that feature and how you can use it. In the meantime Robert(…)

Install NeuVector 5 on OpenShift Local 4.14

I’ve been playing around with 2 applications recently: OpenShift from Red Hat and NeuVector from SUSE. At some point I’ve wondered if I couldn’t play with both at the same time. Read on as I’ll share some tips & tricks(…)

Apache Tomcat Monitoring in Prometheus without JMX

In a previous blog post, I explained how to monitor Apache Tomcat with Prometheus with help of JMX exporter. It is not always desirable to use JMX as it requires: An additional service setup (which runs(…)

Linux offline package and repository management

Many of us have faced this scenario: setting up a brand-new Linux Server, only to discover it’s a minimal setup lacking essential tools like our favorite ‘VIM’ text editor. This leads to frustration while trying to make changes without our(…)

Paginating Through a Documentum’s Result Set

This blog article shows examples of the pagination DQL hint RETURN_RANGE.

dbvisit StandbyMP with OracleSE2 – dbvnet port problem

I’m currently working on a customer project, where we have 2 old Lenovo Servers, one ODA X7-2M and another ODA X8-2M. In the new project, we are replacing the 2 old Lenovo Servers by 2 new ODA X9-2L. The production(…)

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(…)