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Oracle 12c – TableSpace Maintenance
Oracle TableSpace Maintenance Normally, I don’t get to worried about the size of TableSpaces, as they grow and shrink all the time. However, recently while setting up some automation scripts I was...
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SmartThinking || January 2017
SmartThinking || January 2017 Newsletter Message from Wade Finally! The newsletter is back. 2016 was an absolutely off the hook year. Things started off with going back on the road to help a major...
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PeopleSoft – Some Users unable to open some pages
PeopleSoft – Some Users unable to open some pages PeopleSoft – PSAPPSRV crash when some users try opening some pages PeopleSoft – Personalization Corruptions Not really too sure what title to use on...
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PeopleSoft Oracle – Security Setup
Oracle – Security Setup I had a client ask me last week to change up all the oracle – security setup in their production Oracle Database. The cleanup was relatively straightforward because we only use...
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Oracle – OPSTAT Maintenance
Oracle – OPSTAT Maintenance The other day a clients production environment was having some really bad performance issues and it was causing some jobs to fail with deadlock or wait timeouts. This...
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Apache: DoS & DDoS Attack
Apache: DoS & DDoS Attack Firstly, what is a DoS or DDoS Attack? A DoS attack is a “Denial of Service” attack which typically is a computer being used to flood a target system or resource in an...
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Panda + Community February 2017
Panda + Community February 2017 Okay, seriously, what is up with this crazy weather? This past month I drove through snow, sleet, rain, 100 mile per hour winds, a tropical depression and a tornado...
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AWS Mount Data Disk
AWS Mount Data Disk (Linux) Amazon Web Services allows you to create EBS (Elastic Block Storage) instances which can be mounted to your EC2 Server instances. This allows an administrator to be able to...
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Oracle Database 12c: Installation Guide
Oracle Database 12c: Installation Guide I was working on a new server the other day and I wanted to make sure that all the correct repositories were in place, this install guide was excellent. >>...
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PeopleSoft – Authorization Error – Contact Your System Administrator
PeopleSoft – Authorization Error – Contact Your System Administrator Last week I was on a call with a client who had Oracle in doing a “free” assessment, which in my opinion was a giant sales pitch....
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PeopleSoft – Performance Monitor (Setup)
PeopleSoft – Performance Monitor (Setup) Setting up Performance Monitor is one of those once every couple of years quests that I get tasked with. There is no need to re-invite the wheel on this as...
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Panda + Community March to June 2017
Panda + Community March to June 2017 Curling, Bowling, Dancing, Conferences, Running, Biking, Cooking, Field Trips, the question may be what haven’t we done over the past couple of months. This July...
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Linux X11 Forwarding with SU Switch User
Linux X11 Forwarding with SU Switch User Over the years access is often granted to one of the administrative users and then once we are on the server we have to switch user to another account to do...
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SmartThinking || March to June 2017
SmartThinking || March to June 2017 Newsletter Message from Wade Oh my, how did Canada day get here so quickly? I had the March newsletter all ready to send and I was just waiting on some pictures and...
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AWS EC2 Update Java
AWS EC2 Update Java While working on a new Amazon EC2 Instance the default java that shows up is an openJDK version which may not necessarily be the right java for certain enterprise applications....
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Panda + Community July to September 2017
Panda + Community March to June 2017 Curling, Bowling, Dancing, Conferences, Running, Biking, Cooking, Field Trips, the question may be what haven’t we done over the past couple of months. This July...
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AWS EC2 Create Swap File
AWS EC2 Create Swap File While creating PeopleSoft Upgrade Maintenance (PUM) environments using the DPK’s from Oracle, they require that you have a swapfile in order to complete the install....
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AWS EC2 Mount Point Fails To Mount
AWS EC2 Mount Point Fails To Mount While creating PeopleSoft Upgrade Maintenance (PUM) environments using the DPK’s from Oracle, we often use spot instances and these spot instances can terminate on a...
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PeopleSoft – PUM – Failure to Start
PeopleSoft – PUM – Failure to Start During the last Windows Update on the PUM server the Virtual Box Image failed to start correctly. In the Logs you will see: Starting PeopleSoft Application Server...
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Panda + Community Christmas 2017
Panda + Community Christmas 2017 Santa, a crazy tree dude, and The Panda in an ugly Christmas Sweater! Always a good time to be had at the Rotary Christmas Party this year. Wait was that the way we...
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