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Oracle

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

Oracle has introduced an authentication mechanism that enables Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users to use their ...

Oracle

What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

Data Safe is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security service that provides a set of features to protect sensitive ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 1

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

Oracle

CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

Something exciting happened a few days ago. It started with a tweet and a blog post, and has evolved into an official ...

Analytics

How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

In 2018, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) for E-Business Suite. This EBS add-on ...

Cloud

Build a Data Lake Using Lake Formation on AWS

A data lake is a centralized repository for large amounts of structured and unstructured data to enable direct ...

Analytics

Metadata-Driven Data Governance: the How and Why

In our previous discussion, we explored the role of data stewards and their vital function for data governance ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

Problem You’re trying to install SQL Server 2019 and when you reach the feature selection SSRS is nowhere to be found. ...

Oracle

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

In Part 1, we discussed the essentials of DB token-based authentication and looked at examples to set up authentication ...

Oracle

How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

Avoiding licensing traps in oracle standard edition If you recently created an Oracle Standard Edition 2 database, you ...

SAP

DP Agent in HANA Cloud Migrations: the How and Why

SAP HANA is the evolution of SAP HANA Service. It’s an in-memory platform for processing high data rates in real-time. ...

Analytics

A Closer Look at Data Governance Program Phases

In a previous post, I outlined how designing data governance programs can deliver business value. In this post, we’ll ...

Analytics

Identifying and Engaging Data Stewards

In our previous discussions, we evaluated how to kickstart our data governance programs. We discussed the cultural ...

Google Cloud

Datascape Episode 59: Google BigQuery Architecture, Cloud Migrations

Episode 59 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of the Datascape Podcast. Cloud consultant Megha Bedi joins us from ...

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: ...

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, ...

Oracle

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

We recently completed a few e eBS R12.2 database upgrade installations and noticed an issue with a particular SQL ...

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 ...

Google Workspace

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

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

Oracle

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

One of the standard Oracle DBA tasks is to monitor the alert log for errors. Whether you’re using the integrated AWS ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Why Comprehensive Health Checks for MS SQL Servers Matter: Part 2

First part of this blog post: ...

Pythian Life

Namaskaram from Hyderabad!

This month’s postcard comes from southern India, where Pythian foodie Rohith Kumar supports multiple aspects of ...

Oracle

OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

OCI Dashboards is a free service that Oracle provides on its OCI platform. Using dashboards, you can get a high level ...

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 ...

Google Cloud

An Initial Test of Google’s AlloyDB Columnar Engine

Introduction Google just recently launched the public preview of their new customized cloud version of PostgreSQL ...

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 ...

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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Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

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

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 1

CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

Build a Data Lake Using Lake Formation on AWS

Metadata-Driven Data Governance: the How and Why

How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

DP Agent in HANA Cloud Migrations: the How and Why

A Closer Look at Data Governance Program Phases

Identifying and Engaging Data Stewards

Datascape Episode 59: Google BigQuery Architecture, Cloud Migrations

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

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

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Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

Monitoring transaction logs in PostgreSQL

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

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

Why Comprehensive Health Checks for MS SQL Servers Matter: Part 2

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OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

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An Initial Test of Google’s AlloyDB Columnar Engine

Useful CQLSH Commands for Everyday Use

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

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