Amazon EFS Top-Talkers
Recently, I was helping a client with their AWS Elastic File Service (EFS), which is a managed...
Pythian Blog: Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Database Management (13)
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...
Oracle DBMS_CLOUD package with AWS S3
The package DBMS_CLOUD was first introduced in the Autonomous Database to provide a simple way to...
MongoDB Backups and Point In Time Recovery – Part 3
This is the third and final post in the series of blog posts for MongoDB replica set backups with...
Interesting variations in outcome when cloning a CDB with a subset of PDBs in Oracle
Recently I was working on a client request where a CDB along with a subset of its PDBs had to be...
Creating your Strategy Storyboard
In our previous post we explored how to inventory existing data assets as a baseline for...
Oracle Datapump Proactive Patching
I was speaking at the MOUS 2022 conference last week in Michigan, US, where I attended a session by...
MongoDB incremental backups using the oplog – Part 2
This is the second post in the series of blog posts for MongoDB replica set backups. I’ll try to...
How to backup MongoDB database using lvm snapshots – Part 1
In this series of blog posts for MongoDB replica sets, I will show you how to properly run full...
MSDTC and configuration details for cluster/Always On
MSDTC: MSDTC stands for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and it is used by SQL Server...
