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Tackling time troubles - how to use dates correctly in Oracle

For the Oracle Code series of events I have delivered an older but ...

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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 ...

Oracle

Oracle parallel query hints - part 1: PQ_DISTRIBUTE

One of the most powerful features of the Oracle database is its ability to leverage multiple CPU cores across many ...

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MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator

Introduction

In this post we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and ...

Oracle

Oracle parallel query hints - part 3: PX_JOIN_FILTER

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Spark UDF memoization

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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 ...

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Oracle 18c Non-CDB databases in the Oracle Database Cloud Service (ODBCS)

Oracle is implementing a cloud first approach and hence the newest releases such as Oracle Database 18c first appear in ...

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Oracle parallel query hints. A reference series part 2: PQ_REPLICATE

The Mechanics of PQ_REPLICATE in Oracle 12.2

In part 1 of this series, we talked about the basic mechanics ...

Oracle

Why is my Forms 12c Application so slow?

After a recent upgrade

Users cannot work with the forms application anymore; it has been a few weeks since an ...

Oracle

RDP Issue - CredSSP encryption Oracle remediation

Introduction

We have recently had some issues accessing a few client servers and found it is related to a ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure

Data classification with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL DB (GDPR, PII, HIPPA...etc)

This blog post will cover SQL Server on-premise or IaaS and Azure SQL DB and how to classify data in both. Let's ...

Cassandra

Kong: an intro to API gateways

Introduction

While working on a few tasks in the past few weeks, I faced a problem that involved setting a ...

MySQL

Backing up your MySQL instance physically with Docker

In a previous post, I had mentioned that I was doing a bit of digging into Docker in order to get a ...

Oracle

Fun with Oracle Data Guard Broker

The beginning

So, there we were attending to our jobs and tending to our customers when an emergency alert ...

Cassandra

Backup strategies in Cassandra

MySQL

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to ...

Cassandra

Cassandra information using nodetool

Cassandra nodetool provides several types of commands to manage your Cassandra ...

Oracle

Debugging CBQT OR expansion with 10053 trace

I had been working with a client to add a little bit of functionality to an analytical view that we had been running ...

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

I explained in an earlier ...

Cassandra

Cassandra backups using nodetool

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

MySQL

Graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

Introduction

One of the things I like about Continuent Tungsten is how Tungsten Connector can hold traffic ...

Database

BTRFS performance compared to LVM+EXT4 with regards to database workloads

Introduction

In many database builds, backups pose ...

MySQL

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Problem Statement

In a recent

Microsoft Azure

Azure Cloud Shell - cloud what?

What is Azure's Cloud Shell?

Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based, interactive shell that comes in two ...

Oracle

Creating dynamic tasks using Apache Airflow

What's Airflow?

Apache Airflow is an open source scheduler built on Python. It uses a topological sorting ...

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 ...

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Infographic: five ways to make analytics for everyone

Google Cloud

Datascape podcast episode 26: a brief tour of the Google Cloud Platform

In episode 26 of the Datascape, we give you a ...

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Tackling time troubles - how to use dates correctly in Oracle

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

Introduction

Oracle parallel query hints - part 1: PQ_DISTRIBUTE

MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator

Introduction

Oracle parallel query hints - part 3: PX_JOIN_FILTER

Spark UDF memoization

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Oracle 18c Non-CDB databases in the Oracle Database Cloud Service (ODBCS)

Oracle parallel query hints. A reference series part 2: PQ_REPLICATE

The Mechanics of PQ_REPLICATE in Oracle 12.2

Why is my Forms 12c Application so slow?

After a recent upgrade

RDP Issue - CredSSP encryption Oracle remediation

Introduction

Priority in MongoDB replica sets

Data classification with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL DB (GDPR, PII, HIPPA...etc)

Kong: an intro to API gateways

Introduction

Backing up your MySQL instance physically with Docker

Fun with Oracle Data Guard Broker

The beginning

Backup strategies in Cassandra

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Cassandra information using nodetool

Debugging CBQT OR expansion with 10053 trace

Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

Cassandra backups using nodetool

Graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

Introduction

BTRFS performance compared to LVM+EXT4 with regards to database workloads

Introduction

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Problem Statement

Azure Cloud Shell - cloud what?

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Creating dynamic tasks using Apache Airflow

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