Red Hat Linux 7

SQL Server 2017 on RHEL first installation

Beginning of last week Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for today, the second of October. In the same time, but in a more marketing side, Microsoft announced a SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise(…)

Introducing high-availability with SQL Server on Linux

A couple of months ago, I did my first installation of SQL Server on Linux. I wrote about it in this blog post. So(…)

First installation of SQL Server on Linux REHL 7.2

As you certainly know Microsoft announced yesterday the first preview of SQL Server vNext on Linux. Obviously we are far from a final version suitable for production and the list of unsupported features will probably be good indicator of the(…)

Disable Red Hat 7 Transparent Hugepages

Ausgangslage Ein Kunde hat mich kürzlich angefragt, wie am effizientesten alle Kernel Tuning Parameter für Oracle bei Red Hat 7 konfiguriert werden können. Daraus habe ich untersucht welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, ausser dem seit langer Zeit bekannten /etc/sysctl.conf. Bei dieser Analyse(…)

Stay tuned with kernel parameters

Why does the sysctl.conf value for swappiness on Oracle Linux 7.x not survive a reboot For a project I applied the dbi services best practices for Oracle databases. One of these is to adjust the swappiness parameter. We recommend to use(…)