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In a previous blog, I went through the full procedure of renaming a GoldenGate extract from the adminclient. I included all necessary steps to avoid missing transactions. Doing this by hand is

In a previous post, I shared the OGGRestAPI Python client I built for the GoldenGate REST API. Since then, I kept using it on production deployments, fixing it and adding new features along the way.

In a previous blog, I presented how to set up a distribution path between two GoldenGate deployments both secured with NGINX. The method I used there was purely through the Web UI. But GoldenGate

I already covered out-of-place patching from the web UI, but patching tasks should be automated, and clicking through the same screens for every deployment can get repetitive. Let's do the exact same

When doing complex operations with GoldenGate, checking for long running transactions is mandatory if you don't want to miss transactions. Let's look at two ways of retrieving such information, first

The 23.26.3.0.0 release update of GoldenGate 26ai (July 2026) ships a small but welcome usability change, listed in the *New Enhancements section of the release notes: > Bug 39415027: Generic -

I recently wrote about NGINX reverse proxy reconfiguration after creating or deleting a deployment in GoldenGate. It reminded me that there is an overlooked aspect of the reverse proxy configuration,

Recently, I wrote about deleting a GoldenGate deployment with the REST API, and when investigating this issue, I remembered a limitation of the configuration assistant, which I wanted to talk about.

Recently, I was asked how to recreate a GoldenGate deployment if the password for the Security user (the first user created with the deployment) was lost. This is an interesting question that I

After writing blogs about Default profile updates and a bug affecting profiles in GoldenGate 26ai, I realized it would be a good idea to present a quick way to update all processes at once with the

Your GoldenGate certificates should be granted by a trusted Certificate Authority, which normally handles the monitoring of certificates. However, if you don't want your future you, or a colleague,

As part of a GoldenGate setup automation, changing the Default profile of your extracts and replicats seems like a good start if you don't want to deal with custom profiles or changing each

Let me tell you a story about how I discovered an undocumented role in GoldenGate that could break your automation. Recently, I wanted to do a massive update of the role of a GoldenGate user on

When automating your GoldenGate deployment management, you might want to create path connections with the GoldenGate REST API. This is an important aspect when connecting GoldenGate deployments with

While migrating a GoldenGate classic architecture setup with the migration utility, I recently had the following OGG-12020 error: It is a very cryptic error at first glance, but let's try to

Is it possible to create a new GoldenGate deployment with the REST API ? This is the question I will try to answer in this blog, based on my experience with the REST API. I will dive in what is done

*Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client. In this blog, I provide GoldenGate administrators with a fully working, production-ready Python client to efficiently handle

In this blog post, I will guide you on how to query the restapi.log file of your GoldenGate deployments more efficiently. These logs are a valuable source of information for GoldenGate administrators

When playing around with the GoldenGate REST API, you might have encountered the OGG-08116 error. It happens when using the *Create Connection REST API call, with the following endpoint given in the

Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I've yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty. Mainly

If you've ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you've probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In