Linux

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(…)

The size of Oracle Home: from 9GB to 600MB – What about SQL Server?

Holidays is over and let’s start working with a funny write-up. I was reading interesting stuff done by my colleagues Franck Pachot and Daniel Westermann about reducing the size of Oracle / PostgreSQL binaries(…)

Catching interface state changes with Network Manager

Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is trapped. As(…)