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SQL Server: How to see your enable security protocols (TLS/SSL/DTLS) with a TSQL Query?

First, a little explanation about TLS, DTLS & SSL: TLS is Transport Layer Security. It’s a cryptographic protocol to provide communication security over the network. DTLS is the abbreviation of Datagram Transport Layer Security. It’s also a cryptographic protocol providing(…)

Alyssa has discovered a few career paths in IT

This period is rich in reflections for me on the condition of women in IT and technology. At the beginning of the year, my colleague Julia Gugel and I prepared a talk about "The curious case of women(…)

JBoss EAP Patching

jboss-cli tool comes with a command named patch. As the process is obvious, this blog will be short. Nevertheless, it is still interesting to see how it changes files and directories structure of JBoss binaries. It’s worth noting that RedHat(…)

How to use AWX REST API to execute jobs

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction AWX provides a REST API which allows to do pretty all commands that can be executed through the web interface, using http requests. Sometimes is more easy to restart, or start jobs for instance through(…)

Elasticsearch: is case-sensitive or insensitive?

One more blog in the Elasticsearch series (blogs list at the bottom), this time we will try to learn more together about indexing and search, more specifically answer the question: is Elasticsearch case-sensitive or case-insensitive?(…)

Specify hosts in ansible-playbook command line

Introduction Playbook are a key element of Ansible. You specify which roles and tasks will run on your hosts and groups.Each play of the playbook must have its parameter hosts set. Here is a quick example of different hosts(…)

Control-M /EM : Generate a job report in few clicks!

Introduction During a previous post, we have seen how to find the creator of a workload policy using BMC reports tool. Indeed , this tool can be helpful to perform tasks such an audit of Control-M components, checking active(…)

Elasticsearch – Index, document, and search

I have recently wrote blogs about ELK Stack and more specifically around Elasticsearch, this blog comes as a complement of the previous blog (Data lifecycle management).

Kubernetes: Extension of disk in Rook Ceph

In my previous blog, I’ve introduced the storage solution Rook Ceph for Kubernetes. We saw that in our architecture we had 3 workers dedicated for storage using Ceph file system. Each worker had 2 disks of(…)

Considerations when backing up from the Oracle Standby Database (Data Guard) with rman to shared storage (NFS)

To reduce load on the Primary DB in a Data Guard configuration you may decide to do your rman backups from the Standby site. A very common approach today is to use NFS as the backup location, especially when using(…)