I’m used to working in a UNIX environment and when I was asked to build a database and manage on Windows, I was faced with some new challenges. One of them is searching through the Alert log and without standard UNIX grep I wanted to write something that could perform the same function. Also show … Read more
Here is a script I’ve put together to backup both cluster and non clustered databases in AWS. (Still in progress). import boto3 import datetime import sys # Author: Mark Young # Date: 3rd October 2017 # Detail: Automatic database snapshots are restricted to 35 days # This script enables us to keep snapshots for extended … Read more
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Write the contents out to a CSV file import sys import cx_Oracle import os def printf (format,*args): sys.stdout.write (format % args) def printException (exception): error, = exception.args printf (“Error code = %s\n”,error.code); printf (“Error message = %s\n”,error.message); username = sys.argv[1] password = sys.argv[2] databaseName = sys.argv[3] new_user = sys.argv[4] new_password = sys.argv[5] print(‘Connecting to ‘ … Read more
df.py #! /usr/bin/python # my first python attempt. # Mark Young 14 July 2016 import sys import os import subprocess def reportUsage(label, total, free): used = total – free print “%s=%dG, used=%dG (%d%%)” % (label, free, used, used*100/total) p = subprocess.Popen([“df”, “-k”, “.”], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) print p.stdout.read() rc = p.wait() stat = os.statvfs(“.”) total = (stat.f_bsize … Read more