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Oracle

Optimizing CPU cores and threads for Oracle on AWS

A Smarter Way to Scale: Custom CPU Options on AWS About a couple of weeks ago, AWS introduced a new option to manage ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Powershell error: sqlps.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system

Introduction An interesting issue came across my desk this week. One of our clients has a number of PowerShell tasks ...

Data Engineering

How to schedule weekdays only on Airflow

Consider the following situation: You have a data ingestion pipeline where the data comes in real-time on weekdays and ...

MySQL

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Restoring a MySQL slave by manually taking a backup and then copying the file over the network can be an incredibly ...

DevOps

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Recently, I was faced with the need to create and configure a Neo4j cluster. In order to be able to easily experiment ...

MySQL

Setting up MySQL encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID

In this blog post, I'll walk you through setting up encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID enabled. I will walk ...

MongoDB

Priority in MongoDB replica sets

I had interesting use case with a MongoDB replica set I'd like to share. When the replica set consists of four nodes ...

Oracle

An Oracle "oraenv" script solution for Windows with PowerShell

The idea Due to the nature of my consulting work, I mostly work in Linux environments and use bash for scripting. But ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to restore encrypted backups

Background SQL Server started having encrypted backups since SQL Server 2014. You can see the technical details here. ...

MySQL

Log buffer #551: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Oracle

Database migration: how to handle large tables

In the previous blog, we presented a simple database migration approach using Apache Nifi. Following our previous blog, ...

Cassandra

How to migrate data from Cassandra to Elassandra in Docker containers

A client recently asked us to migrate a Cassandra cluster running in Docker containers to Elassandra, with the data ...

Oracle

EBS 12.2 issues seen in the wild

Recently, I was involved in an EBS upgrade project, and also in operational support of an EBS production environment. ...

Oracle

Log buffer #549: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

MySQL

Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers blog posts from Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

Getting started with Orchestrator

Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool. In this blog post, we will cover the first ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Linux file system for SQL Server DBAs

Intro With Microsoft releasing SQL Server on Linux and a lot of SQL Server DBAs coming from a predominantly Windows ...

Oracle

How to efficiently back up and restore crontab

When a database environment is being patched, entries from crontab are commented and then removed when patching is ...

Cassandra

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Context: Every now and then I find myself looking for a couple of commands I do often. In some other ...

BigQuery

Data modeling for cloud DW

Intro In this blog post, I would like to share some options that you can consider to model your cloud DW for better ...

Cassandra

Cassandra backups using nodetool

Cassandra nodetool provides several types of commands to manage your Cassandra cluster. See my previous posts for an ...

MySQL

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Background In one of the projects I have been working on, one requirement was the ability to stop traffic from reaching ...

Google Cloud

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

Both MS Excel and Google Sheets offer ways to connect directly to BQ data, to run queries, to pull data back to ...

Microsoft Azure

Azure Data Lake basics for the SQL Server DBA / developer and... for everyone!

The basics If you're a Microsoft SQL Server DBA or developer and have not been introduced to the Microsoft Azure Data ...

MySQL

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Problem Statement In a recent post, my colleague and teammate Peter Sylvester explained how we could customize MySQL's ...

Oracle

HugePages for Oracle database in Oracle Cloud

I recently published a blog post about large pages support in AWS RDS for Oracle and someone asked me if and how it ...

Cloud

Airflow Scheduler: the very basics

Apache Airflow is a great tool for scheduling jobs. It has a nice UI out of the box. It allows you to create a directed ...

Database

Fixing could not start service broker for database

Introduction Blogging is something I love because it gives me a chance to share the ideas I have and the knowledge I ...

Google Cloud

GCP features wish list for Google Next 2018

As I've just posted about Pythian at Google Next, I thought it would be cool to share the new GCP features I'd love to ...

DevOps

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

So you’ve started developing an Ethereum project and TestRPC has worked wonderfully. Now you're ready to set up a CI/CD ...

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Optimizing CPU cores and threads for Oracle on AWS

Powershell error: sqlps.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system

How to schedule weekdays only on Airflow

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Setting up MySQL encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID

Priority in MongoDB replica sets

An Oracle "oraenv" script solution for Windows with PowerShell

How to restore encrypted backups

Log buffer #551: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Database migration: how to handle large tables

How to migrate data from Cassandra to Elassandra in Docker containers

EBS 12.2 issues seen in the wild

Log buffer #549: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Getting started with Orchestrator

Linux file system for SQL Server DBAs

How to efficiently back up and restore crontab

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Data modeling for cloud DW

Cassandra backups using nodetool

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

Azure Data Lake basics for the SQL Server DBA / developer and... for everyone!

Debugging MySQL on Docker

HugePages for Oracle database in Oracle Cloud

Airflow Scheduler: the very basics

Fixing could not start service broker for database

GCP features wish list for Google Next 2018

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

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