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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 ...

MongoDB

Text index usage within MongoDB

Recently a client came to me asking “How do we verify if a full text search index is being used on MongoDB?” The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

MySQL

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

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

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.

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 ...

Oracle

Installing Oracle 18c using command line

Introduction Just three days ago Oracle released Oracle 18c for general installation on-premises. We've had a taste of ...

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 ...

MySQL

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

This blog will go into how to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD using the systemctl command. With ...

MySQL

Choosing best index for your MongoDB query

Introduction Indexing plays a quintessential role in database query performance and MongoDB is no exception. Choosing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Optimizing CPU cores and threads for Oracle on AWS

Text index usage within MongoDB

How to schedule weekdays only on Airflow

Setting up MySQL encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID

An Oracle "oraenv" script solution for Windows with PowerShell

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

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

How to efficiently back up and restore crontab

Installing Oracle 18c using command line

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

Choosing best index for your MongoDB query

HugePages for Oracle database in Oracle Cloud

Airflow Scheduler: the very basics

GCP features wish list for Google Next 2018

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