Blog Archives - Exitas

Oracle Support Rewards: innovate on cloud and save on your existing support bill!

Sep022021Exitas

Our customers have been asking us for years whether there is a way to reduce their Oracle support fee and finally … here it is! Like frequent flyer miles, you can now earn rewards with your usage on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and use them to lower your support bill for on premises Oracle Technology....

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Jun102021Exitasdata appliance, database, Exitas Technical Lunch, oracle

Did you miss our webinar on the Oracle Database Appliance? Well, here’s your chance to watch it again. Interesting to know: If you order an ODA before the end of August you can get an extra discount! CONTACT US Did you like our webinar? What topics would you like to see next? Let us know…

Upgrading a Bare Metal ODA to 19c (19.6)

May032020Sebastiaan SpincemailleODA 19C, oracle

It’s finally here! ODA patch 19.6 with EL7 and Oracle DB 19c (19.6.0.0.200114). In this blogpost, I will describe what steps I did and what issues I encountered as it is a big change from EL6 → EL7 and minor from 18c to 19c.

Oracle Database 20c is available for preview on Oracle Cloud, this is why you should upgrade to 19c.

Apr202020Guy Gyles

Here are a few reasons why you should migrate to the long term support release 19c of the Oracle Database. The purpose of this article isn’t to make you panic, no … just to inform you about the nice and useful features of the latest Oracle Database releases. Oracle Database 19c is the terminal release…

Open Source Database onderzoek

Mar062020Kim

Open Source databases in Vlaanderen en Brussel Fijn dat u wil meewerken aan ons marktonderzoek over open source databases in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Hieronder vindt u de vragenlijst. Met uw deelname verstevigt u de betrouwbaarheid van de resultaten die we in onze white paper zullen publiceren. Door deel te nemen krijgt u als eerste ons...

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) replaces Oracle VM (OVM)

Jan232020Bjorn Naessens

On June the 3rd 2019 Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM). OLVM is built on the proven technology of the open source oVirt Project and uses a kernel-based Virtual Machine environment (KVM) as hypervisor. On 11 October 2019 a White Paper was released announcing that OLVM now also supports the...

WSUS – How to report out-of-date systems against the approved patches instead of all patches

Dec172019Kim

By Karim Amri Sr. SQL Server DBA at Exitas. Since the default WSUS report only shows your system status against all available updates (except those that have been declined), your view of outdated systems may not be as you would like it to be. For example, many companies only approve updates on a weekly, monthly…

Oracle Database Firewall

Nov142019Stephan Lorgé

Protect your databases Every company has one or more firewalls that control access to their servers and PC’s. Almost every company has a Windows domain where policies and access to resources are configured. But only a few companies control the SQL traffic to their databases. Of course, database administrators can define access rights in the…

Assigning reserved public IPs to guests with Oracle Cloud and Terraform

Aug092019Freek D'HoogeOCI, Terraform

When I started one (of the many things) that struggled with was how to assign a reserved public ip to a guest when using Terraform. And as I don’t seem to be to only one, I decided to write a quick blog post to explain how to do it. But first, some background. Terraform Terraform…

DBAs in the mist

Jun062019Freek D'Hooge

Past month I presented my “DBAs in the mist” presentation about the Oracle Cloud during one of the Exitas Technical Lunches. This presentation was an updated version (cloud changes fast) of the one I presented in February at the Belgium Tech Days As there seems to be some demand for an introduction presentation on the…