Troubleshooting

Documentum Administrator UCF Troubleshooting

Maybe you had some issues with UCF in DA as me. I had this for no reason since few days at a customer. The problem was that we use SSL with DA and the Unified Content Facilities (UCF) wasn’t happy(…)

SQL Plan Directives strikes again

By Franck Pachot . 12c SQL Plan Directives, a side effect, a bad application design, a bug... and the occasion to show how to quickly troubleshoot. An application has long response time since 12c migration. No blind guesses, no reason(…)

SQL Server Tips: Default trace enabled but no file is active…

I discover a strange error with a customer about the default trace. As you know, SQL Server has a default trace with a lot of events like the data and log file growth. This trace is enabled by default and(…)

Delete an orphan user-database under SSISDB

I post a little tips for orphan database-users that we cannot drop so easily in the SSISDB… I discovered this by a customer and it was very tricky to find the explanation and the solution. This is the reason why(…)

SSISDB is too big and it is not every time the retention period’s fault!

In all blogs that I read, the solution is just to change the retention period to a reasonable value. Yes, it is true but in some case you need to go deeper in the analysis… Like you, I(…)

quickly exchange code or text between workstations or teams

In a recent project I faced the following situation: One the one hand I had to execute scripts on a customer’s workstation while on the other hand I had to integrate the results of these scripts into a report on(…)

Oracle OPatch and “Archive not applied” error

Recently, I have installed an Oracle 11.2.0.4 RDBMS on a server, and I wanted to install the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) 11.2.0.4.4 from October 2014. During the execution, I fell on the error “Archive not applied” and the job(…)

Documentum upgrade project – ActiveX and D2-Client 3.1Sp1

This is another blog posting an our Documentum upgrade project. This time, the following issue occured: the ActiveX could not be installed using the D2-Client. We had to access the D2-Config url to have it installed. For a normal user,(…)

SQL Server 2014: sys.dm_exec_query_profiles, a new promising feature

Among the hidden features provided by SQL Server 2014 there is a very interesting dynamic management view named sys.dm_exec_query_profiles. This feature will help the database administrators and experienced developers to troubleshoot long running queries in real-time. I’m pretty sure(…)

Oracle TNS_ADMIN issues due to bad environment settings

Recently, I faced a TNS resolution problem at a customer. The reason was a bad environment setting: The customer called the service desk because of a DBLINK pointing to a bad database. The users were supposed to be redirected to a(…)