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How to implement the password verify function in a EDB PostgreSQL advanced server database

Security is the measure role of the database in terms of data and user level. One of the most important security ...

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SQL Server In-Place upgrade failed: wait on the database engine recovery handle failed

A few weeks ago I was performing an in-place upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2017. I followed each and every ...

Cloud

What’s the Measure of a Maturity Model?

In the Cloud Ops line of business at Pythian, a key area of concern for our team is maturity, and over the course of ...

Google Cloud

Building an ETL Pipeline with Multiple External Data Sources in Cloud Data Fusion

In this post, I’ll share a quick start guide on Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Cloud Fusion. We’ll first take a look at ...

Microsoft Azure

How to Fix the “There is not enough space on the disk” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Here’s how to remedy the “There is not enough space on the disk” error on Azure SQL Data Sync. Problem You established ...

Google Cloud

Best practices for SQL Server instances

These are a few of the Best Practices to keep up the performance better in SQL Server Instances Configuring Windows ...

Google Cloud

Apache Beam: the Future of Data Processing?

Apache Beam is a unified model for defining both batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines. It’s a ...

Database

Patroni – An awesome PostgreSQL HA Solution

Patroni Patroni is a High Availability solution for PostgreSQL using asynchronous streaming replication, Etcd, and ...

Oracle

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

If you are using a remote Oracle database service, such as Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction Processing database, or an ...

Oracle

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Background When Oracle introduced version 12.1 of the RDBMS, an interesting new parameter was included: ...

Database

Blockchain Technology

BlockChain Technology (Part 1): People from different technical backgrounds have different perspectives on the ...

Database

Evaluating Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

In May of 2022, Google released the public preview of their long awaited and proprietary version of PostgreSQL called ...

Microsoft Azure

How to Fix the “Triggers on Memory-Optimized Tables Must Use WITH NATIVE_COMPILATION” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Here’s how to quickly fix a common error that occurs while executing Azure SQL Data Sync. Problem You’re starting a ...

Pythian Life

Olà from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

This month’s postcard is from a friendly town in Brazil where Site Reliability Consultant Joao Assis delivers request, ...

Microsoft SQL Server

DISTRIBUTED ALWAYS ON

What is Distributed Always ON It is a particular type of availability group that helps access the multiple failover ...

Technical Track

ORA-00274 after upgrade to 19c and trying to enable a delay on recovery for standby database.

Introduction Last weekend we upgraded a database from 11.2.0.4 to 19.10 for one of our clients. This database is ...

Oracle

How to Minimize downtime for 19c upgrade using Oracle logical standby transient Database

Background Oracle has a documented process for using Oracle logical standby transient Database (TLS) to minimize ...

Oracle

After logon trigger in user schema and FRA full situation hang the database

This blog post is about a scenario where a combination of a logon trigger performing DML operations at user login time ...

Database

Monitoring transaction logs in PostgreSQL

Importance An important part of PostgreSQL monitoring is looking at how many transaction logs or WAL (Write Ahead Logs) ...

Database

How to Perform an Oracle E-Business Suite + Java Web Start

As we all know, Java Web Start is not a new Oracle E-Business Suite technical functionality. However, I thought I’d ...

Oracle

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Do you use Screen in Linux? If so, I’m sure you appreciate the importance of functionality it provides. At times, as ...

Google Cloud

Best Practices for Enterprise Data Platforms on Google Cloud: Part 1

Enterprises recognize that becoming truly data-driven will propel innovation, transformation, and differentiation. ...

Google Workspace

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

Introduction As remote and hybrid workplaces become the norm, organizations face a difficult challenge: empowering ...

Google Workspace

Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: Which is Right for Your Organization?

These days, most businesses don’t have a heterogeneous IT environment—even if it seems like it on paper. You might be a ...

Analytics

Data Governance in Legacy Environments

Bridging Analytical Models and Modern Governance In our previous post we discussed the governance requirements for ...

Google Cloud

5 Reasons to Partner with a Google Cloud Managed Services Provider

You’ve taken the leap and decided to migrate some of your workloads to Google Cloud, which are now being managed by ...

Database

Split brain solution using pg_rewind in PostgreSQL

Summary In this blog I will explain pg_rewind use case to solve split brain after a database failover happens. Split ...

Cassandra

Useful CQLSH Commands for Everyday Use

Introduction Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database used for processing large volumes of data with high ...

Data Engineering

DAG Monitoring with Airflow

What is Apache Airflow? Airflow is a platform to programmatically author (designing pipelines, creating workflows), ...

Oracle

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

I’m currently reviewing an environment that has been upgraded to 19c based on information from oratab. The reason for ...

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How to implement the password verify function in a EDB PostgreSQL advanced server database

SQL Server In-Place upgrade failed: wait on the database engine recovery handle failed

What’s the Measure of a Maturity Model?

Building an ETL Pipeline with Multiple External Data Sources in Cloud Data Fusion

How to Fix the “There is not enough space on the disk” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Best practices for SQL Server instances

Apache Beam: the Future of Data Processing?

Patroni – An awesome PostgreSQL HA Solution

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Blockchain Technology

Evaluating Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

How to Fix the “Triggers on Memory-Optimized Tables Must Use WITH NATIVE_COMPILATION” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Olà from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

DISTRIBUTED ALWAYS ON

ORA-00274 after upgrade to 19c and trying to enable a delay on recovery for standby database.

How to Minimize downtime for 19c upgrade using Oracle logical standby transient Database

After logon trigger in user schema and FRA full situation hang the database

Monitoring transaction logs in PostgreSQL

How to Perform an Oracle E-Business Suite + Java Web Start

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Best Practices for Enterprise Data Platforms on Google Cloud: Part 1

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: Which is Right for Your Organization?

Data Governance in Legacy Environments

5 Reasons to Partner with a Google Cloud Managed Services Provider

Split brain solution using pg_rewind in PostgreSQL

Useful CQLSH Commands for Everyday Use

DAG Monitoring with Airflow

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

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