Solaris 11 installation
This post walks you through the steps to perform a Solaris 11 installation (11.4 x86) as a Oracle VirtualBox VM running on Windows.
PostgreSQL Administration
This post covers some standard PostgreSQL Administration tasks. PostgreSQL Version 17 running on a RHEL 8.10 VM is used.
Package Manager Cheat Sheet
This Package Manager cheat sheet is just a collection of some useful commands that I tend to forget from time to time.
SAP HANA 2.0, express edition and Applications installation on Linux
In this blog we will perform all steps needed to install SAP HANA 2.0, express edition and Applications on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.10 VM. We do everything from downloading the software until we are able to login to the system and use it.
Disable gnome-initial-setup
If you don’t like the annoying Welcome screen after a user logs in for the first time to GNOME, then you might like this oneliner. I use it on RHEL 8:
PostgreSQL and pgAdmin Installation
This blog post describes the steps to install PostgreSQL and pgAdmin. We will install PostgreSQL version 17 running on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.10 VM and pgAdmin version 4 running on Windows 10 and on RHEL 8. The installation is very simple and straightforward.
Install Oracle GoldenGate Veridata 23c
This blog post shows how to install Oracle GoldenGate Veridata 23c on two Virtual Maschines running Oracle Database 19c on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.10. On the first VM we install the Veridata 23c server and deploy an Veridata Agent. After that we install the Agent only software on the second VM and deploy the Veridata Agent.
Install Oracle GoldenGate 23ai on Linux
This post shows how to Install Oracle GoldenGate 23ai on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (silent) for replication from or to Oracle Databases. After the base installation we will also apply the current RU patch 23.5. As a final step we add a Deployment.
Creating Self Signed Certificates
Often Applications (e.g. Oracle GoldenGate or Oracle GoldenGate Veridata) allow the usage of certificates. For test systems a self signed certificate can be used to quickly create and use them.
Unattended Installation of Windows 10 on VirtualBox
These steps can be used to setup a Windows 10 VirtualBox guest that can be used as the base OS for the other blog posts. The host system in my case is also Windows 10. The unattended installation process is used.