Valerie Parham-Thompson

Valerie Parham-Thompson

With experience as an open-source DBA and developer for software-as-a-service environments, Valerie has expertise in web-scale data storage and data delivery, including MySQL, Cassandra, Postgres, and MongoDB.

Posts by Valerie Parham-Thompson

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - BMS

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - BMS

Dec 9, 2020 12:00:00 AM 2 min read
Postgres partial indexes on email address domains

Postgres partial indexes on email address domains

Aug 20, 2020 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
Postgres Security Patches Related to the Search Path

Postgres Security Patches Related to the Search Path

Aug 19, 2020 12:00:00 AM 1 min read
Postgres Covering Indexes and the Visibility Map

Postgres Covering Indexes and the Visibility Map

Aug 6, 2020 12:00:00 AM 6 min read
PostgreSQL Backups

PostgreSQL Backups

Jul 20, 2020 12:00:00 AM 4 min read
Upgrading a Large Cassandra Cluster with cstar

Upgrading a Large Cassandra Cluster with cstar

Jul 2, 2020 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
Spark + Cassandra Best Practices

Spark + Cassandra Best Practices

Jul 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM 8 min read
Docker Orientation

Docker Orientation

Jul 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM 9 min read
Handling a Cassandra transactional workload

Handling a Cassandra transactional workload

Jan 24, 2019 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
Cassandra backups using nodetool

Cassandra backups using nodetool

Jun 11, 2018 12:00:00 AM 4 min read
Cassandra information using nodetool

Cassandra information using nodetool

May 22, 2018 12:00:00 AM 9 min read
Orientation to Cassandra Nodetool

Orientation to Cassandra Nodetool

May 10, 2018 12:00:00 AM 2 min read
Cassandra open-source log analysis in Kibana, using filebeat, modeled in Docker

Cassandra open-source log analysis in Kibana, using filebeat, modeled in Docker

May 7, 2018 12:00:00 AM 4 min read
Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

May 1, 2018 12:00:00 AM 11 min read
Lightweight transactions in Cassandra

Lightweight transactions in Cassandra

Mar 28, 2018 12:00:00 AM 2 min read
Duplicate indexes in MySQL

Duplicate indexes in MySQL

Jan 5, 2017 12:00:00 AM 4 min read
Using the MariaDB CONNECT engine to merge heterogeneous data sources

Using the MariaDB CONNECT engine to merge heterogeneous data sources

Jan 4, 2017 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
Using gh-ost for online schema changes

Using gh-ost for online schema changes

Oct 21, 2016 12:00:00 AM 6 min read
Data encryption at rest in Oracle MySQL 5.7

Data encryption at rest in Oracle MySQL 5.7

Apr 20, 2016 12:00:00 AM 5 min read
Data encryption at rest

Data encryption at rest

Feb 18, 2016 12:00:00 AM 9 min read
MySQL Query profiling with Performance Schema

MySQL Query profiling with Performance Schema

May 26, 2015 12:00:00 AM 2 min read
Detecting source of MySQL Queries with comments

Detecting source of MySQL Queries with comments

Feb 17, 2015 12:00:00 AM 1 min read