Installation

SQL Server 2016 RC3: .NET Framework 3.5 is no longer required during installation

As you may certainly know, the last release candidate of SQL Server 2016 (RC3) has been released by Microsoft a couple of days ago. You may find the announcement here.  As usual, after downloading the binaries(…)

Alfresco: cleanup your dev environment

As an Alfresco developer/administrator, you probably already made a few mistakes in your DEV environment while trying to add new features, a custom model or something like that. The result of that mistake might be a corrupted Database or Content(…)

Installing EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.5

Some days ago EnterpriseDB released EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.5. As usual this release contains all new features that have been introduced with PostgreSQL 9.5 plus the additions that are documented in the release notes.

SEVERE:OUI-10020:The target area /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/ is being used as a source by another session

What to do if you get the above error when you try to install Oracle SE2 (did not test if the same issue is there with EE, but probably it is) in silent mode?: ./runInstaller oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle/ ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_2_4/ UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall oracle.install.db.DBA_GROUP=dba(…)

Configure a Kerberos Client and Alfresco as a Kerberized application

In the previous blog, I described How to install and manage a Kerberos Server but that’s useless if there are no clients and if no application have been kerberized! That’s why in this blog I will explain in(…)

How to install and manage a Kerberos Server

For some time now, I have been working on how to set up a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution in my company. As a big fan of Open Source solutions, I have obviously proposed the implementation of a solution based(…)

Oracle Database 12c New Features: Uninstaller encapsulated into installation media

Among the Oracle 12c new features there is the addition of an uninstall tool encapsulated in the Oracle database binaries. There is no more the necessity to download the deinstallation tool for Oracle products (deinstall utility). In this blog I(…)

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c: Binaries installation

In a previous article, I have shown how to configure two servers in order to deploy a two-nodes 12c cluster. This time, I am going to describe the Grid Infrastructure 12c installation process using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI). We(…)

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c: prerequisites for installation

Grid infrastructure 12c has recently been released. In this posting, I will show that the installation prerequisites are quite similar between Grid Infrastructure 11g and 12c. We will see parts of them during a review for the deployment of(…)

Oracle Database 12c new features: segregation of duties with new administrative roles

Starting with Oracle Database 12C Release 1 a set of new administrative privileges that are more task oriented are available.Before Oracle 12c it was needed to have the SYSDBA privilege to make a backup, to monitor the Data(…)