database

Patching Oracle databases with Nutanix NDB

A few years back I had the great opportunity to test Nutanix NDB, at that time called Nutanix Era, and I had written a few blogs about provisioning Oracle databases, taking snapshot, log catchup, cloning a database, restoring a database,(…)

Simplifying PostgreSQL Management: A Guide to Install and Use pgcli

Managing databases is a crucial aspect for a DBA, and PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database management system that is widely used. To interact with a PostgreSQL database, DBA and developers often rely on command-line tools. The default tool(…)

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

Deploying 11.2.0.4 on a recent ODA

How to deploy 11gR2 database on a modern ODA(…)

Oracle DBs and ransomware attacks

By Clemens Bleile I had a discussion with a customer recently about the risk of running into an issue with ransomware encrypting data of Oracle databases. Just to quickly recap on what ransomware is: Wikipedia: Ransomware is a type(…)

Alfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert doesn’t work

At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will(…)

When unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration

If I had to rank my favorite Oracle-related tools and software, Dbvisit Standby would likely be at the top of the list. You are reading this post, so you probably know that Dbvisit Standby is a(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 1 – Introduction

I'm currently setting up a lab for Nutanix Era in order to be able to provide some presentation on this subject and see how Nutanix Era interacts with Oracle databases. I therefore thought it would be certainly helpful and a(…)

Recurring PostgreSQL Installations using RHEL 8 and Clones

This Blog is a follow up uf one of my older Blogs and my Article at heise.de: Blog at dbi-services.com Article at heise.de For RHEL 8 at its clones like AlmaLinux, CentOS, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux(…)