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Oracle 12cR2 on Windows: Virtual Accounts

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 is released for Windows, just 2 weeks after the Linux release, and this is a very good news. Let’s see something new you will encounter in the first screens of Oracle 12.2 installer. Don’t worry, the default choice is the right one. But better understand it. SYSTEM On Linux, you don’t install Oracle… 

MongoDB Installation on Windows

In this blog post, we will show how to install MongoDB on Windows. Download installer First go to the MongoDB download center https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community. According to your Windows server version, click on the green buton and download the installer (.msi). In our example, we will use the MongoDB Community version for Windows Server 2008 and later. Important: MongoDB is available exclusively… 

Windows: Sauvegarde RMAN sur un disque partagé

Dans ce blog, je vais vous expliquer comment exporter les backups RMAN sur un « share disk » appartenant à un Domaine. Assurer la sécurité des données est l’une des tâches principales de l’administrateur : La mise en œuvre d’une protection des fichiers sensibles de la base : Fichier de contrôle Fichiers de journalisation La mise en place d’une stratégie de sauvegarde/récupération : Adaptée aux contraintes… 

Large Pages and MEMORY_TARGET on Windows

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post about enabling large page on Windows Server, I explained that it’s possible to use large pages with Automatic Memory Management (AMM, where sizing if SGA and PGA is automatic with MEMORY_TARGET setting) but possible does not mean that it is recommended. We feel that it’s not a good idea, but are there… 

Large Pages on Windows

By Franck Pachot . ORA_LPENABLE To let Oracle use Large Pages on Windows, you need to define a registry string ORA_LPENABLE=1. This will enable large pages for all instance so it’s probably better to do it at instance level with ORA_SID_LPENABLE, especially if you have an ASM instance on your server. Note that large pages is a recommandation for an… 

Windows Cluster vNext and cloud witness

The next version of Windows will provide some interesting features about WFSC architectures. One of them is the new quorum type: “Node majority and cloud witness” which will solve many cases where a third datacenter is mandatory and missing to achieve a truly resilient quorum. Let’s imagine the following scenario that may concern the implementation of either an SQL Server…