Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Stratis

The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present(…)

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to(…)

Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA

Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool(…)

Huawei Dorado 6000 V3 benchmark

I had the opportunity to test the new Dorada 6000 V3 All-Flash storage system. See what the all-new Dorado 6000 V3 All-Flash Storage system is capable as storage for your database system.

Red Hat Forum Switzerland 2019

Today (actually right now) we are a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Forum Switzerland 2019 in Geneva. With around 300 people attending this is quite a huge event and we had a lot of interesting(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Application Streams

You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming(…)

Oooooops or how to undelete a file on an ext4 filesystem

It happens within the blink of an eye. A delete command was executed and half a second after you hit the enter button you knew it. That was a mistake. This is the scenario which leads to this blog entry(…)

Strange behavior when patching GI/ASM

I tried to apply a patch to my 18.3.0 GI/ASM two node cluster on RHEL 7.5. The first node worked fine, but the second node got always an error...

Getting started with Red Hat Satellite – Installation

This is the start of a series of posts I wanted to write for a long time: Getting started with Red Hat Satellite. Just in case you don't know what it is, this statement from the official Red Hat website(…)

Deploying SQL Server on MiniShift / RedHat OpenShift

Currently we begin to see customer adopting containerization for SQL Server databases (mainly driven by CI/CD and DevOps trends). A lot of them are using RedHat OpenShift as container management platform. From my side, I didn’t(…)