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SQL Server In-Place upgrade failed: wait on the database engine recovery handle failed

A few weeks ago I was performing an in-place upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2017. I followed each and every ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Oracle

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

In Part 1, we discussed the essentials of DB token-based authentication and looked at examples to set up authentication ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

Avoiding licensing traps in oracle standard edition If you recently created an Oracle Standard Edition 2 database, you ...

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 ...

Oracle

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Background When Oracle introduced version 12.1 of the RDBMS, an interesting new parameter was included: ...

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 ...

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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

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 ...

Database

Monitoring transaction logs in PostgreSQL

Importance An important part of PostgreSQL monitoring is looking at how many transaction logs or WAL (Write Ahead Logs) ...

Database

How to Perform an Oracle E-Business Suite + Java Web Start

As we all know, Java Web Start is not a new Oracle E-Business Suite technical functionality. However, I thought I’d ...

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: ...

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

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

Useful CQLSH Commands for Everyday Use

Introduction Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database used for processing large volumes of data with high ...

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

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

I’m currently reviewing an environment that has been upgraded to 19c based on information from oratab. The reason for ...

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SQL Server In-Place upgrade failed: wait on the database engine recovery handle failed

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

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

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

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

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

How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

Response File for GI Node Addition

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

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

Monitoring transaction logs in PostgreSQL

How to Perform an Oracle E-Business Suite + Java Web Start

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

Replacing Nodes in Cassandra

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

An Initial Test of Google’s AlloyDB Columnar Engine

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Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

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