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Oracle

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

Oracle has introduced an authentication mechanism that enables Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users to use their ...

Oracle

What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

Data Safe is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security service that provides a set of features to protect sensitive ...

Oracle

CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

Something exciting happened a few days ago. It started with a tweet and a blog post, and has evolved into an official ...

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How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

In 2018, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) for E-Business Suite. This EBS add-on ...

Oracle

Unusual Use of the RMAN uncatalog Command

Handling RMAN mismatched status errors A fresh year is the perfect time to learn something new. Recently, I have come ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

Problem You’re trying to install SQL Server 2019 and when you reach the feature selection SSRS is nowhere to be found. ...

Oracle

Installing Forms 12.2.1.4 – File not found $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libvsn12_ee.a.dbl using GUI

After installing Weblogic and Fusion Middleware (FMW) 12.2.0.4, I came across the following error when I tried to ...

Microsoft SQL Server

FIX: SQL server installer hangs on existing clustered instance “running discovery on remote machine”

Problem You’re trying to install a service pack, cumulative updates, or run the installer to add a shared feature on a ...

Oracle

Moving Your Oracle Database to the Cloud? Why Google Cloud Could Be a Good Fit

Oracle has long been a top choice for relational databases, but migrating those workloads to the cloud usually requires ...

Cassandra

Change Your system_auth Replication Factor in Cassandra

Occasionally, clients reach out to us with authentication issues when a node is down. While this scenario shouldn’t ...

PostgreSQL

Using Kafka to Replicate Data from Postgres to MS SQL Server: Part 1

Building a unified data framework You’ve probably heard the expression, “Data is the new oil”. That’s because data is ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Fix: SSIS Installation Error – Rule “Existing clustered or clustered-prepared instance” Failed

Problem You’re trying to install SQL Server Integration Services to an existing SQL Server failover cluster. You chose ...

SAP

DP Agent in HANA Cloud Migrations: the How and Why

SAP HANA is the evolution of SAP HANA Service. It’s an in-memory platform for processing high data rates in real-time. ...

Analytics

A Closer Look at Data Governance Program Phases

In a previous post, I outlined how designing data governance programs can deliver business value. In this post, we’ll ...

Oracle

Response File for GI Node Addition

Initially, I didn’t think that it would be difficult. But I feel the initial MOS note is inadequate for preparing a ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Fix: SSIS Catalog Creation Error – “SQL Server Denali is Required to Install Integration Services”

Problem You’re trying to create an SSIS Integration Catalog using SQL Server Management Studio for a SQL Server ...

Pythian Life

A Recruiter Recruited to Recruit at Pythian

Six months ago, I joined Pythian as a Global Talent Acquisition Partner (TA). I often get asked by candidates why I ...

Oracle

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Have you ever logged on to a Linux machine, only to be greeted by a prompt requesting you make some choice? It’s ...

Database

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Episode 53 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of Datascape Podcast. In today’s show, guests Shara French, Microsoft ...

Pythian Life

Bună from Romania!

Think project management is all routine budgeting and scheduling? In this month’s postcard, Andrei Bumbu offers a ...

Oracle

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

We recently completed a few e eBS R12.2 database upgrade installations and noticed an issue with a particular SQL ...

Cassandra

Cassandra for beginners: Replication

This post is the continuation of the previous post, Cassandra 101: Understanding What Cassandra Is, in which I’ll ...

Oracle

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

One of the standard Oracle DBA tasks is to monitor the alert log for errors. Whether you’re using the integrated AWS ...

Cassandra

Batch Operations in Apache Cassandra

Batches are one of the most misunderstood features of Apache Cassandra. They rarely improve performance. In fact, while ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Why Comprehensive Health Checks for MS SQL Servers Matter: Part 2

First part of this blog post: ...

Google Cloud

Best Practices to Follow When Migrating to Google Cloud

If you’ve been running workloads on-premises for years, migrating to the cloud can be a daunting prospect. You probably ...

Pythian Life

Namaskaram from Hyderabad!

This month’s postcard comes from southern India, where Pythian foodie Rohith Kumar supports multiple aspects of ...

Oracle

OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

OCI Dashboards is a free service that Oracle provides on its OCI platform. Using dashboards, you can get a high level ...

Google Cloud

An Initial Test of Google’s AlloyDB Columnar Engine

Introduction Google just recently launched the public preview of their new customized cloud version of PostgreSQL ...

Cassandra

How to Deploy Spark in DataStax Cassandra 5.1

Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system used to manage big data workloads. Spark uses in-memory caching ...

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Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

Unusual Use of the RMAN uncatalog Command

How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

Installing Forms 12.2.1.4 – File not found $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libvsn12_ee.a.dbl using GUI

FIX: SQL server installer hangs on existing clustered instance “running discovery on remote machine”

Moving Your Oracle Database to the Cloud? Why Google Cloud Could Be a Good Fit

Change Your system_auth Replication Factor in Cassandra

Using Kafka to Replicate Data from Postgres to MS SQL Server: Part 1

Fix: SSIS Installation Error – Rule “Existing clustered or clustered-prepared instance” Failed

DP Agent in HANA Cloud Migrations: the How and Why

A Closer Look at Data Governance Program Phases

Response File for GI Node Addition

Fix: SSIS Catalog Creation Error – “SQL Server Denali is Required to Install Integration Services”

A Recruiter Recruited to Recruit at Pythian

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Bună from Romania!

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

Cassandra for beginners: Replication

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

Batch Operations in Apache Cassandra

Why Comprehensive Health Checks for MS SQL Servers Matter: Part 2

Best Practices to Follow When Migrating to Google Cloud

Namaskaram from Hyderabad!

OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

An Initial Test of Google’s AlloyDB Columnar Engine

How to Deploy Spark in DataStax Cassandra 5.1

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