Infrastructure at your Service
I have installed Oracle 19.6 on an EC2 for our Multitenant Workshop training. And of course, during the workshop we create a lot of PDBs. If you don’t have paid for the Enterprise Edition plus the Multitenant Option you can create at most 3 pluggable database. But with this option you can create up to 252 pluggable databases. Does it worth the price, which according to the public price list is USD 47,500 + 17,500…
Before we really start with this post: This is just an experiment and you should not implement it like this in real life. The goal of this post is just to show what is possible and I am not saying that you should do it (the way it is implemented here will be catastrophic for your database performance and it is not really secure). As I am currently exploring a lot of AWS services I…
When you start to write business logic in the database by using triggers or functions/procedures you usually want to report messages to the user that runs your code or you want to include some debugging output for your own. In Oracle a lot of people use the dbms_output package to return simple messages to the user’s screen. In PostgreSQL you can do the same but of course the way it is implemented is not the…
As you probably know, Documentum introduced the optional use of a Lockbox since version 7. It was done initially to contribute to the security of the AEK key which is one of the central components of a Content Server. Time showed that, well, it’s not so easy and since then, nothing much changed on the Lockbox layer. With the version 16.4, OpenText introduced some new things regarding the Lockbox like the upgrade from version 3…
MSSQL-CLI is a useful new command line tool. Not so new because this tool exist since 2018 but a little bit unknow. You find this tool on GitHub here. One of the big advantage is the number of platforms available, Windows of course but also macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOs, Red Hat, OpenSuse, Suse Enterprise and Fedora. This interactive command-line query tool has many advantages like the full IntelliSense support, the auto-complete, the syntax highlighting, the…
Recently in a project, one of the Documentum environments we were working on started showing failure on the execution of the dm_DMFilescan job and only this one. After a couple minutes of investigation, I quickly found the root cause of the issue which wasn’t very important, but I thought I would share it because of the implications it has. In addition to that, it’s also not the first time I’m seeing this kind of issue…
This is the last post in this little series about migrating on Oracle instance to AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility. For the previous one you can check here, here and here. In this post we’ll look at how you can configure change data capture so that changes on the source Oracle instance are automatically replicated to the target Aurora instance. In a real life migration this is what you probably need as long down times…
As discussed in a previous blog, working with LSS might prove a little bit challenging from time to time. In this blog, I wanted to share an error I saw while installing LSS 16.6.1 on an Oracle database. Initially, I developed my silent installation for LSS (while encapsulate the LSS silent scripts provided by OpenText) using a PostgreSQL database because it’s usually easier to setup an environment on Kubernetes with PG because of licenses. …
D2-Smartview is a new UI that OpenText now provides starting with the version 16 of D2. It’s a lightweight UI that can perform some of the actions that D2 does. The list of features will probably increase with time but at the moment, I guess it’s more for simple users that have very basic needs, consumer like roles mainly. An interesting thing is that with a small configuration, users can switch between D2 and D2-Smartview…
If you followed the last two posts in this little series (here and here) this is the current status of this demo migration project: We have converted the Oracle SH schema and applied it to the target AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility instance. This worked quite well but a few objects (mostly PL/SQL procedures) would need manual actions. The next and final step is to replicate the data from Oracle to the Aurora instance using…
Having the required infrastructure ready now it is time to have a look at the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). The goal of this tool is to convert a source schema (Oracle in our case) to a target schema (AWS Aurora in our case). From the description this should also migrate stored functions and procedures and we will see later on how well that works. Automatically converting Oracle’s PL/SQL to PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL quickly becomes tricky…
The short answer to the title of this blog post is: yes, of course you can. The more important question is: should you? The PostgreSQL documentation about tablespaces contains an explicit warning: “Placing a tablespace on a temporary file system like a RAM disk risks the reliability of the entire cluster”. This is for sure true for tablespaces containing persistent data, but what about objects/files that are created in a temporary tablespace like temporary tables…
