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GitLab Migration and Upgrade

I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release 13.3.4) running in a pod in(…)

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition.

Control-M/EM How to allow check-in with validation error

Hi everybody Introduction For some test purpose I wanted to export my folders but with some fields missing ( for example the host name or the “run as” field ) but as you know it’s not possible to do(…)

Ansible Event Driven Automation

In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls Gather(…)

Migration with Multitenant: how easy it is!

Introduction On Oracle Database, Multitenant feature will be turning 9 in July, but it’s not yet widely deployed as most of the databases are still running on non-CDB architecture. With 19c, Multitenant is now mature and free if you stick(…)

ChatGPT vs DevOps

As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested to(…)

Data Staging with OMrun – Migration (part I)

OMrun is a powerful tool for data staging that allows you to easily load a wide range of file formats like CSV and XML files in databases. This means, OMrun will automatically detect the data structure and convert it to(…)

A generic jdbc tester (part II)

A generic utility to test JDBC connections to any RDBMS or no SQL data source whose JDBC drivers are provided. Oracle OCI, MariaDB and SQLite.

A quick repository creation utility (part V)

How to create a documentum repository in under a minute. Timings, management functions and conclusion(…)

A quick repository creation utility (part IV)

How to create a documentum repository in under a minute. Instantiating a new docbase, the Migration Utility.