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Updating Elasticsearch indexes with Spark

With the extensive adoption of Elasticsearch as a search and analytics engine, more often we build data pipelines that ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server on Linux – Configuration (Ubuntu)

Following on from my previous post where we installed SQL Server with the default configuration this article goes into ...

Oracle

Oracle’s Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) Version 2 (2.0.1)

Background Oracle recently released a new version of their Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) - version 2.0.1. ...

Oracle

gh-ost with Amazon RDS / Aurora

Doing online schema changes in a managed database environment is not as straight-forward as one may think. Using gh-ost ...

Oracle

Improve Oracle performance with ASM filter driver

Context Sometimes the results found in performance testing can be a bit of a surprise. I have recently been preparing ...

Google Cloud

The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

“The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken ...

MySQL

Exporting custom metrics to influxdb

In the TICK stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) from InfluxData, Telegraf serves as the crucial "T"—the ...

Oracle

Cleaning up PID files when Oracle GRID/RAC upgrades and patches fail

Introduction: Unfortunately is it not all that unusual for a patch or upgrade to Oracle Grid or RAC to fail, requiring ...

Cloud

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

Once upon a time CPU utilization was quite a useful metric. Following are the output of several tools that provide CPU ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to display database statistics for all objects used in a SQL statement

When my current task is to optimize a particular SQL statement, I find it quite useful if I can determine if the ...

Oracle

Log rotation for Oracle database

Most of you may already know how to configure the log rotation for your database alert log or the listener log etc,. As ...

Oracle

How Linux Hugepages work to improve Oracle performance

This post is not intended to be an in-depth discussion of how Linux Hugepages work, but rather just a cursory ...

MySQL

Backup and data streaming with xbstream, tar, socat, and netcat

Comparing Xtrabackup Streaming Methods: XBSTREAM vs. TAR On April 4th 2012 Xtrabackup 2.0 was released in to GA by ...

Data Migration

Database migration using Apache NiFi

Introduction Apache NiFi is a powerful tool for data migration. It provides an easy to use interface to connect to a ...

Oracle

A look at current "Infrastructure as Code" Trends

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard the term “Infrastructure as a Code” thrown around. ...

MySQL

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

Context On occasion I have found it necessary to immediately kill all processes for a particular user on a Linux or ...

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Updating Elasticsearch indexes with Spark

SQL Server on Linux – Configuration (Ubuntu)

Oracle’s Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) Version 2 (2.0.1)

gh-ost with Amazon RDS / Aurora

Improve Oracle performance with ASM filter driver

The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

Exporting custom metrics to influxdb

Cleaning up PID files when Oracle GRID/RAC upgrades and patches fail

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

How to display database statistics for all objects used in a SQL statement

Log rotation for Oracle database

How Linux Hugepages work to improve Oracle performance

Backup and data streaming with xbstream, tar, socat, and netcat

Database migration using Apache NiFi

A look at current "Infrastructure as Code" Trends

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

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