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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 ...

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 ...

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 SQL Server

How to restore encrypted backups

Background

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

Oracle

Database migration: how to handle large tables

In the previous blog, we presented a simple

MySQL

Getting started with Orchestrator

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Featured blog posts

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

Introduction

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Priority in MongoDB replica sets

How to restore encrypted backups

Background

Database migration: how to handle large tables

Getting started with Orchestrator

Linux file system for SQL Server DBAs

Intro

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Context:

Data modeling for cloud DW

Intro

Cassandra backups using nodetool

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Background

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

The basics

Fixing could not start service broker for database

Introduction

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

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