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Tackling time troubles - how to use dates correctly in Oracle

For the Oracle Code series of events I have delivered an older but still relevant talk called "Tackling Time Troubles." ...

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How to store performance counters directly on SQL server using TypePerf Command

Introduction Every DBA should know that the baseline is one of the most important pieces to make a proactive ...

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Protect against MySQL vulnerability CVE-2016-6662

Overview On September 12, 2016, a security vulnerability affecting all current versions of MySQL and its various ...

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Spark UDF memoization

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Oracle service secrets: more performance with less load-balancing

A huge but often overlooked aspect of tuning cluster databases is workload management. That means controlling on which ...

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Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Recently, I was faced with the need to create and configure a Neo4j cluster. In order to be able to easily experiment ...

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Reading execution plans for parallel DML

Introduction: Parallel execution in Oracle seems to be a topic of myths, mysteries and misunderstandings. In this post ...

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MySQL on AWS: RDS vs EC2

When moving your MySQL instances to AWS, you would probably have to deal with this decision. This article will ...

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RDP Issue - CredSSP encryption Oracle remediation

Introduction We have recently had some issues accessing a few client servers and found it is related to a Windows ...

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Custom MySQL statistics with collectd

Even though collectd has a MySQL plugin, you may want to collect other statistics, not included with the plugin or even ...

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Kong: an intro to API gateways

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The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

“The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken ...

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Backup Oracle databases to AWS S3

There are different options for backing up Oracle databases to Cloud, but using Oracle Secure Backup module to take ...

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How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

One of the more common struggles I’ve had to assist with in regard to Amazon RDS is enabling binary logging on read ...

Oracle

Distinguish real SQL execution plans from fake ones!

As an Oracle DBA, one of our daily tasks is to optimize bad SQL statements that are affecting the system and causing ...

Oracle

Debugging CBQT OR expansion with 10053 trace

I had been working with a client to add a little bit of functionality to an analytical view that we had been running ...

Oracle

Customizing pt-stalk to capture the diagnostics data you really need

Valeriy Kravchuk's great recent post on using oprofile to profile MySQL mentioned how pt-stalk, the script from Percona ...

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

I explained in an earlier post how I am using GCP's Cloud Shell for all of my command-line needs all the time. Whenever ...

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Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Context: Every now and then I find myself looking for a couple of commands I do often. In some other ...

MySQL

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Background In one of the projects I have been working on, one requirement was the ability to stop traffic from reaching ...

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Dbatools and a SQL Agent

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Exposing Innodb Internals via system variables: part 4, concurrency

Introduction This is part four of a five part blog series to explore InnoDB internals by looking at the related tunable ...

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Exposing Innodb internals via system variables: part 3, I/O (table data)

Introduction This is part three of a five part blog series to explore InnoDB internals by looking at the related ...

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Cassandra 3.9 Security feature walk-through

As an enterprise level NoSQL database software, Apache Cassandra provides many out-of-the-box security features that ...

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Azure Cloud Shell - cloud what?

What is Azure's Cloud Shell? Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based, interactive shell that comes in two flavors: ...

MySQL

Asynchronous replication from MySQL cluster

MySQL Cluster is a highly available, distributed, shared-nothing database with very interesting performance ...

Oracle

A look at current "Infrastructure as Code" Trends

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard the term “Infrastructure as a Code” thrown around. ...

Google Cloud

Datascape podcast episode 26: a brief tour of the Google Cloud Platform

In episode 26 of the Datascape, we give you a whirlwind tour of the Google Cloud Platform, otherwise known as GCP. We ...

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Monitor Cassandra using Zabbix

MySQL crashes on DDL statement: a lesson on purge threads

Tackling time troubles - how to use dates correctly in Oracle

How to store performance counters directly on SQL server using TypePerf Command

Protect against MySQL vulnerability CVE-2016-6662

Spark UDF memoization

Oracle service secrets: more performance with less load-balancing

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Reading execution plans for parallel DML

MySQL on AWS: RDS vs EC2

RDP Issue - CredSSP encryption Oracle remediation

Custom MySQL statistics with collectd

Kong: an intro to API gateways

The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

Backup Oracle databases to AWS S3

How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

Distinguish real SQL execution plans from fake ones!

Debugging CBQT OR expansion with 10053 trace

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Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Dbatools and a SQL Agent

Exposing Innodb Internals via system variables: part 4, concurrency

Exposing Innodb internals via system variables: part 3, I/O (table data)

Cassandra 3.9 Security feature walk-through

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