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OpenText World 2022 – Las Vegas

Here we are, in the fabulous Las Vegas to be part of the great reunion as named by OpenText, it starts today in-person! So, from October 4-6 from The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Yes, we made a long travel(…)

OpenText World is back and we are there!

The ultimate Information Management conference is back in-person this year from October 4-6 at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas! Thank you dbi services to gave us, David Diab and myself, the opportunity to participate to this 3 days(…)

Be careful with “public” in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL comes with the "public" schema by default and we always recommend to drop it for PostgreSQL versions up to 14. The reason is, that everybody who is able to connect to a database, by default, can create objects in(…)

WLST Scripts to grant privilege to monitor and view JMS messages in WebLogic Console

At a customer site, ansible is used to deploy the full Syrius stack. One of the requirements was to give the browse privileges to a group of people to monitor the JMS queues. I tried to(…)

First steps with Oracle Autonomous Database

By Mouhamadou Diaw In Oracle documentation we can find following lines about Oracle Autonomous Database Autonomous Database provides an easy-to-use, fully autonomous database that scales elastically, delivers fast query performance, and requires no database administration. You will need an(…)

How the YaK is born

It all began with a challenge In the consulting job, some tasks can be a bit repetitive. They also take up valuable consulting time that the client would be more than happy to use for higher value-added tasks. So, my(…)

Do you really need varchar(n) in PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL comes with three data types for storing characters. char, varchar and text. What we often see at our customers is, that varchar(n) is used when they want to store characters and limit the amount of characters which are allowed(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade fails due to missing dm_filestore

At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there are(…)

Cilium installation in Minikube using a multi-cluster environment

In this post I’ll share my experience with installing Cilium in Minikube on my Mac. It was not that hard but I faced an issue I had to troubleshoot. I’ll also show you how to create several Kubernetes clusters in(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 2

After a reenergising diner with a typical German meal… Sushis!  My colleague (and now food mate!) Chay Te and I were ready to rock Day 2. The day is structured the same way as Day 1 but I’ll not use(…)