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Approaching Master Data Management

Our previous post focused on ‘lightweight governance’ – enabling engineering and product teams across an organization ...

MongoDB

MongoDB Backups and Point In Time Recovery – Part 3

Enhancing data protection through PITR This is the third and final post in the series of blog posts for MongoDB replica ...

BigQuery

The five key Requirements for a successful SAP data management strategy

Introduction In our last blog article on data management and the DART methodology, we discussed the importance of ...

Google Workspace

How Do I Merge Two Google Workspace Domains?

Bringing google workspace under one umbrella From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data ...

Oracle

Oracle Datapump Proactive Patching

I was speaking at the MOUS 2022 conference last week in Michigan, US, where I attended a session by Roy Swonger ...

MongoDB

How to backup MongoDB database using lvm snapshots – Part 1

Building a unified data framework In this series of blog posts for MongoDB replica sets, I will show you how to ...

Oracle

OEM 13c – Ultimate monitoring guide

Nowadays monitoring the IT environment is one of the most complex, and important, tasks in any corporation. OEM is a ...

Oracle

Oracle DBMS_CLOUD package with AWS S3

The package DBMS_CLOUD was first introduced in the Autonomous Database to provide a simple way to interact with an ...

Analytics

The Relationship Between Data Strategy & Data Governance

Building a unified data framework strategy In our previous post, we discussed value measures, both absolute and ...

Cloud

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are popular platforms for data streaming applications. However, provisioning and managing ...

Google Cloud

Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

BigQuery provides fine-grained access to sensitive columns using policy tags, or type-based classification, of data. ...

Oracle

Pythian’s New Single Sign-on (SSO) Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) – Part Two

Our mission at Pythian is to help you Love Your Data. Because security is a crucial part of managing your data, we are ...

MySQL

Find and remove unused & duplicate indexes in MySQL

Overview It is a general rule of thumb, that the more indexes you have on a table, the slower the INSERTs, UPDATEs, and ...

MongoDB

MongoDB incremental backups using the oplog – Part 2

Enhancing data protection through the operations log This is the second post in the series of blog posts for MongoDB ...

MySQL

MySQL 8.0 – Invisible Indexes

Overview In this blog, we aim to discuss the new MySQL 8.0 feature: invisible indexes and how to manage index ...

Pythian Life

Hello from New Zealand

This month’s postcard comes from Pythian veteran Shara French who manages a busy team of DBAs from across the globe. ...

Oracle

ADOP edition cleanup

Oracle e-Business Suite administrators have access to pretty extensive documentation regarding Patching procedures. In ...

Cloud

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Recently, I was helping a client with their AWS Elastic File Service (EFS), which is a managed NFSv4.1 service, with ...

Oracle

Interesting variations in outcome when cloning a CDB with a subset of PDBs in Oracle

Background Recently I was working on a client request where a CDB along with a subset of its PDBs had to be cloned to a ...

Pythian Life

What to Expect When Interviewing with Pythian

Welcome to Pythian’s recruitment process! We haven’t met yet, but if you’re considering a role here at Pythian, you’ll ...

Google Workspace

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Introduction Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets ...

Analytics

Creating your Strategy Storyboard

Background In our previous post we explored how to inventory existing data assets as a baseline for understanding what ...

Google Cloud

Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

Secure data ingestion is an essential component of cloud modernization—and an essential next step in the broader effort ...

Oracle

How to deploy a Cockroach DB Cluster in GCP – Part I

Introduction CockroachDB is a distributed SQL Database that has been gaining popularity in the last years because of ...

Oracle

How to get information from multiple PDBs

Background Not so long ago, I was faced with a request to collect information from several schemas located in multiple ...

MySQL

pt-online -schema corner case: When you don’t want to replicate your alter activities across the whole cluster.

Intro When we want to perform a heavy ALTER TABLE against a several gigabytes table the options are quite a few but the ...

Analytics

Missing LOV buttons in Forms 12

Context LOVs (List Of Values) is a great feature of Oracle forms and is widely used. Sometimes you might run into an ...

Cassandra

Cassandra consistency level guide

When I started learning Cassandra, I noticed some concepts were not well explained, and it might be helpful for ...

Pythian Life

Hello from India

The first postcard of 2023 is from a coastal city where Gopi Kampa helps streamline the onboarding process while ...

Microsoft SQL Server

MSDTC and configuration details for cluster/Always On

MSDTC: MSDTC stands for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and it is used by SQL Server and other ...

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Approaching Master Data Management

MongoDB Backups and Point In Time Recovery – Part 3

The five key Requirements for a successful SAP data management strategy

How Do I Merge Two Google Workspace Domains?

Oracle Datapump Proactive Patching

How to backup MongoDB database using lvm snapshots – Part 1

OEM 13c – Ultimate monitoring guide

Oracle DBMS_CLOUD package with AWS S3

The Relationship Between Data Strategy & Data Governance

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

Pythian’s New Single Sign-on (SSO) Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) – Part Two

Find and remove unused & duplicate indexes in MySQL

MongoDB incremental backups using the oplog – Part 2

MySQL 8.0 – Invisible Indexes

Hello from New Zealand

ADOP edition cleanup

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Interesting variations in outcome when cloning a CDB with a subset of PDBs in Oracle

What to Expect When Interviewing with Pythian

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Creating your Strategy Storyboard

Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

How to deploy a Cockroach DB Cluster in GCP – Part I

How to get information from multiple PDBs

pt-online -schema corner case: When you don’t want to replicate your alter activities across the whole cluster.

Missing LOV buttons in Forms 12

Cassandra consistency level guide

Hello from India

MSDTC and configuration details for cluster/Always On

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