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 upgrade ...

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 Windows ...

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 start ...

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 better grasp of the ...

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 came in: a ...

Backup strategies in Cassandra

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL, allowing users self-serve ...

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

Introduction In many database builds, backups pose a very large problem. Most backup systems require an exclusive table ...

Debugging MySQL on Docker

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

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

In episode 26 of the Datascape, we give you a whirlwind tour of the Google Cloud Platform, otherwise known as GCP. We ...