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How a Well-Planned SAP S/4HANA Migration Can Be a Catalyst for Digital Transformation

This is the second in a three-part Pythian blog series on the benefits, challenges and considerations surrounding a ...

Oracle

Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts, that covers the details to deploy the Oracle Management Servers for a high ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle

ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Exadata has been Oracle’s gold standard platform for running mission-critical Oracle databases for over a decade. ...

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 ...

Cloud Migration

How to Migrate Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2 from on-premises SunOS fleet to Linux on AWS

It’s no secret that many companies have been moving existing on-premises environments to the cloud. They all have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Database

Renewing the (Default) PMM Certificate

Introduction Recently one of our colleagues was struggling with the default self-signed SSL certificate that ships with ...

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 ...

Oracle

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Apex Interactive Report In a couple of cases, we want to have a button (or an image) added to an IR column working with ...

Google Cloud

Migrate RDB to Cloud SQL Using Google’s Dataflow

Most corporations have huge amounts of data in RDBMS (relational database management system). When considering a RDBMS ...

Pythian Life

Bună from Romania!

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

Google Cloud

Automated Database Backups for Cloud Spanner Using Terraform

This post shows how to use cloudspannerecosystem/scheduled-backups to configure scheduled backups for your cloud ...

Oracle

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

From time to time, a simple request to reorganize space in a tablespace leads to a more complex solution. Here’s how we ...

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

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

I received the above message related to an ORA-7445 on my 11.2.0.4 database: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core ...

Cassandra

Batch Operations in Apache Cassandra

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

Cassandra

Replacing Nodes in Cassandra

One of the many things to love about Cassandra is how operationally simple it is to add, remove or even replace nodes ...

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 ...

Oracle

Licensing Oracle Enterprise Manager

What are the licensing considerations for deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager and using OEM for monitoring database ...

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 ...

Oracle

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought ...

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How a Well-Planned SAP S/4HANA Migration Can Be a Catalyst for Digital Transformation

Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Unusual Use of the RMAN uncatalog Command

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

ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Change Your system_auth Replication Factor in Cassandra

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

How to Migrate Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2 from on-premises SunOS fleet to Linux on AWS

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

Response File for GI Node Addition

Renewing the (Default) PMM Certificate

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

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Migrate RDB to Cloud SQL Using Google’s Dataflow

Bună from Romania!

Automated Database Backups for Cloud Spanner Using Terraform

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

Cassandra for beginners: Replication

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

Batch Operations in Apache Cassandra

Replacing Nodes in Cassandra

Best Practices to Follow When Migrating to Google Cloud

Licensing Oracle Enterprise Manager

How to Deploy Spark in DataStax Cassandra 5.1

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

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