Edward Whalen The Oracle Database Firewall is a great product for performing both Database Policy Enforcement (DPE) and Database Activity Monitoring (DAM). In DPE mode there are two in-line modes; physical and proxy. The physical mode is being deprecated, so proxy is recommended. In addition, some packet replication technologies can be used as well, [...]
Moving to a modern infrastructure can be a confusing and challenging task. So, how can your business best use and understand the cloud? How do leverage the benefits of cloud delivered technology while maintaining controls over performance, security and cost? To start, there are many cloud providers. The leading providers are Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's [...]
The importance of SQL Server Performance Baselines No one loves to hear they have performance problems, especially when it comes to their production SQL Server databases. If a database performance problem should occur knowing where to start troubleshooting can be difficult. Once a SQL Server performance abnormality is found, how do you know if [...]
As database and data integration technology evolves, we find that our customers are frequently tasked with upgrading legacy technology to modern technology such as converting Oracle CDC to GoldenGate. We were recently engaged to do a consulting engagement to help a customer with upgrading to Oracle 12c from Oracle 11g. One of the issues [...]
I recently ran into an issue a GoldenGate error message in an Oracle 12.2 PDB environment that was complicated by the fact that the GoldenGate error message did not accurately reflect the actual error that was happening. In a PDB environment the integrated extract runs against the Container Database (CDB$ROOT). This is necessary because [...]
Now that you have had a chance to read the first two installments of this blog series: Oracle GoldenGate Logdump - An Introduction and Viewing a GoldenGate Logdump Record We will now cover how to traverse a trail file. As a review, use the following to invoke logdump. From the GoldenGate home directory run [...]
In our first installment of this series on Oracle GoldenGate Logdump, Oracle GoldenGate Logdump - An Introduction I introduced you the Oracle GoldenGate Logdump utility. As we continue our overview of Oracle GoldenGate Logdump, we will look at viewing an Oracle GoldenGate Logdump record. For tools to help manage GoldenGate performance, click here [...]
Oracle GoldenGate Logdump is a utility that allows you to read trails files created by Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate is a replication program that is used to replicate homogeneous and heterogeneous data from a database to another database, java, flat file, etc. GoldenGate transfers this data between source and target via proprietary, binary files [...]
Filtering a Trail File in GoldenGate Logdump Now that you have had a chance to read my blogs on GoldenGate Logdump and understanding how to browse around the trailfile we will start looking at some more advanced topics. As a review, use the following to invoke GoldenGate logdump. From the GoldenGate home directory run [...]
Introducing GoldenGate Monitor Edward Whalen - CTO I am proud to introduce the Performance Tuning Corporation GoldenGate Monitor program. For years I have been using shell scripts to monitor GoldenGate. While this provides some functionality, it is often difficult to implement and doesn’t provide all the features that you would desire. That is why [...]