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By Franck Pachot . The Linux metrics that are usually considered for performance monitoring and troubleshooting have many drawbacks and frequent misinterpretations. The recent kernels provide PSI (Pressure Stall Information) which is not enabled by default in Oracle Linux “unbreakable” kernel. However, the kernel is compiled with it. Here is how to enabled it in a newly create Autonomous Linux instance (the Oracle Cloud Linux ,based on OEL 7.9, with no-downtime patching) Check PSI availability…
Switching to Oracle Unified Auditing may produce lots of data when e.g. auditing activities of the SYS-user. I.e. according the documentation you can do the following to audit similarly as in traditional auditing with audit_sys_operations=TRUE: SQL> CREATE AUDIT POLICY TOPLEVEL_ACTIONS ACTIONS ALL ONLY TOPLEVEL; SQL> AUDIT POLICY TOPLEVEL_ACTIONS BY SYS; REMARK1: You may check the Blog on traditional SYS-auditing here REMARK2: Tests done in this Blog were done with Oracle 19.9. Auditing toplevel operations were…
Hello everybody , today we will see how to manage user creation on Jenkins As many other scheduling software, Jenkins has tool to manage credentials and also grant access to users. Best practice to manage user right level is to associate them to a work group and/or a project they are assigned for. User creation Our user will need access to Jenkins and especially to the applications he will work on,also he may have only…
PostgreSQL comes with build-in Full Text Search and you can do quite amazing stuff with it. A question that popped up during one of the last PostgreSQL for developers workshop was: How can I deal with German “Umlaute” such as “ä”, “ö” and “ü” in such a way, that I can search for e.g. “Schnösel” and the result will give me “Schnösel” as well as “Schnoesel”? One way to deal with that would be to…
Hi everybody, First of all,I wish you a happy new year with lot of success for all of you 😀 Now ,to have a good start for 2021 we will learn how to use one of the most important characteristics of Jenkins!You already know how flexible is Jenkins to fit your need,by using the appropriate plugins. Today we will see how to add plugins to your Jenkins. There are many ways to add a plugin…
Last month, Oracle released its new 21c version of the database documentation. At that time, I was looking for a quick mean to get all the books of this so-called 21c Innovation Release. I could remember I used a script to get them all in one run. Quick look at google, remembered me I used the one from Christian Antognini which hasn’t been refreshed for a while. In this blog, I will provide you the…
By Franck Pachot . I have posted, a long time ago, about Google Spanner (inserting data and no decimal numeric data types) but many things have changed in this area. There is now a NUMERIC data type and many things have improved in this distributed SQL database, improving a bit the SQL compatibility. gcloud I can use the Cloud Shell, which is very easy – one click fron the console – but here I’m showing…
2 years ago, I proposed a ctypes-based Documentum extension for python, DctmAPI.py. While it did the job, it was quite basic. For example, its select2dict() function, as inferred from its name, returned the documents from a dql query into a list of dictionaries, one per document, all in memory. While this is OK for testing and demonstration purpose, it can potentially put some stress on the available memory; besides, do we really need to hold…
When a customer wanted to take the challenge to migrate an oracle database 9.2.0.6 (the prehistory in the Oracle world) to Oracle 19c using Oracle GodenGate, I saw more problems than add value for different reasons: Oracle 9.2.0.6 database is out of support (final 9.2 patch was Oracle 9.2.0.8). The customer Operating Systems was AIX 7.4 and only Oracle GoldenGate 11.1.1.1.2 for Oracle 9.2 for AIX 5.3 is available on https://edelivery.oracle.com. The Patch 13606038: ORACLE…
In my previous Blog I had wrote about Swiss Cloud Provider: Exoscale. Read the Blog Today we will look little bit deeper in three subjects: Template & Template sharing Scaling up and down instances dbi CentOS 8 & Debian 10 Templates Templating On Exoscale you can create custom Template from you current Instance. Custom Templates can make your daily work easier. We will look also how we can share Templates. Starting with the GUI: 1….
By Franck Pachot . This was initially posted to CERN Database blog on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 where it seems to be lost. Here is a copy thanks to web.archive.org Demo table I create a table for the demo. The CTAS gathers statistics (12c online statistics gathering) with one row and then I insert more rows: 10:33:56 SQL> create table DEMO as select rownum n from dual; Table DEMO created. 10:33:56 SQL> insert into DEMO…
I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of what is possible or not on the ODA.
