How to build a multi-domain cluster with AlwaysOn availability groups - SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 is making lots of news, and promises to be a revolutionary SQL Server version. In...
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Step-by-step guide to January 2016 PSU patch apply on 12c drid and RDBMS homes in Linux
Following step by step action plan is for single instance database stored on ASM in 12.1.0.2 on...
Oracle RAC on Azure
Microsoft Azure provides an acceptable and affordable platform for a training environment. I am an...
Resolving update-update conflict in peer-to-peer replication
Recently I had received a hand-off ticket which was about a replication issue. The system has been...
An UNDO in a PDB in Oracle 12c?
According to the Oracle 12cR1 documentation and concepts, it is 100% clear that there can be only...
Network multicast support on Azure
Today I would like to talk about multicast support on Azure, and how to make it work. While it's...
Issues with Oracle secure external password stores
Background In the previous article, I covered the basics of how to remove database passwords...
Securing Oracle monitoring and backup scripts
Background Almost every DBA writes and uses various custom scripts to monitor and backup their...
How to migrate from on-premises to Azure SQL database
The Azure SQL Database is improving its capabilities day-by-day. The “Cloud-first” strategy used by...
Configure high availability - load balancing for Hiveserver2
We are noticing a steady adoption of Hive adoption among our customers. Due to the increased...
