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The DBA’s Future Role in Driving Digital Transformation

The CTO's decision to drive digital transformation forward will impact the role of the DBA. The role of the DBA is ...

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Secure the Connection to Your VPC Network from Serverless Environments in Google Cloud

There might have been various situations where you have needed to connect to services created in your Virtual Private ...

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Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog

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Viewing PostgreSQL Logs from the OCI PostgreSQL Service

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Google ‘Backup and DR’ for Oracle

Whenever I’m thinking of Oracle backup, I basically think of putting Oracle RMAN backup to a disk (simplified version) ...

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Schemas in Oracle Autonomous Database

If you have started familiarizing yourself with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Autonomous Database (ADB) service, ...

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How to Setup a Google Cloud SQL Replica from an External MySQL Primary

This is the first in a series of blog posts on how to migrate a MySQL instance from a VM to Google Cloud SQL.

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Oracle Database Migrated to Cloud Starts Experiencing "log file sync" Waits

A client was moving an Oracle 11.2.0.4 database from their data center to one of the major cloud providers' ...

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Understanding your Data Lifecycle for Better Data Management

Managing data is a lot harder than it sounds. It’s often stored in multiple locations. It can be structured, ...

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Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

Introduction Language is a cornerstone of human communication, enabling us to express thoughts, share ideas, and convey ...

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How Google BigQuery can help marketing teams do more with their data

Data is the ultimate business differentiator, which every marketing team knows. It can help you stand out from your ...

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Reasons to Consider Moving from HANA Cloud Neo to HANA Cloud

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Understanding the differences between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric

In the modern era of data-driven decision-making, businesses rely heavily on robust and efficient data platforms to ...

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Google’s Consumer Data Intelligence Platform: Accelerating Consumer Growth with Data-Driven Innovation

In today’s data-driven world, businesses need a way to collect, store, and analyze customer data to make informed ...

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Dialogflow chatbot with custom webhook using Python and GCP

I’ll provide a quick start tutorial for Dialogflow (ES version) in this article. We’ll first examine the features ...

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Data Governance in Snowflake

Data governance has become an essential agenda item for many organizations. The reasons are varied, but two of the most ...

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Backup Oracle E-Business Suite Running on AWS EC2

I’ve written this article to share my thoughts and ideas regarding backup solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite running ...

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Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are popular platforms for data streaming applications. However, provisioning and managing ...

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Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

BigQuery provides fine-grained access to sensitive columns using policy tags, or type-based classification, of data. ...

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SAP BTP Series: The Architecture of SAP BTP

Introduction SAP’s Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) has been in the news for quite some time now. Here’s some key ...

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Top Challenges of Data Ingestion Pipelines and How to Overcome Them with Google Cloud

Modernizing your data management can help your organization leverage its data for sophisticated applications like ...

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Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Recently, I was helping a client with their AWS Elastic File Service (EFS), which is a managed NFSv4.1 service, with ...

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Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Introduction Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets ...

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Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

Secure data ingestion is an essential component of cloud modernization—and an essential next step in the broader effort ...

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Cloud Armor pt. 2 – Customization of Rules

Cloud armor advanced features In my last post, I discussed a basic Cloud Armor setup and how to tune it. However, I ...

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Essential Prerequisites for Deploying LLM Applications in Production

Exploring the Oracle and Google Cloud Partnership Announcement with Nelson Calero

Driving Enterprise Innovation: Warner Chaves on Oracle-Google Cloud Collaboration

How to Promote a Google Cloud Replica from an External MySQL Primary

Azure Data Factory Challenges: Proven Strategies and Best Practices for Success

The DBA’s Future Role in Driving Digital Transformation

Secure the Connection to Your VPC Network from Serverless Environments in Google Cloud

Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog

Viewing PostgreSQL Logs from the OCI PostgreSQL Service

Google ‘Backup and DR’ for Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Schemas in Oracle Autonomous Database

How to Setup a Google Cloud SQL Replica from an External MySQL Primary

Oracle Database Migrated to Cloud Starts Experiencing "log file sync" Waits

Understanding your Data Lifecycle for Better Data Management

Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

How Google BigQuery can help marketing teams do more with their data

Reasons to Consider Moving from HANA Cloud Neo to HANA Cloud

Understanding the differences between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric

Google’s Consumer Data Intelligence Platform: Accelerating Consumer Growth with Data-Driven Innovation

Dialogflow chatbot with custom webhook using Python and GCP

Data Governance in Snowflake

Backup Oracle E-Business Suite Running on AWS EC2

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

SAP BTP Series: The Architecture of SAP BTP

Top Challenges of Data Ingestion Pipelines and How to Overcome Them with Google Cloud

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

Cloud Armor pt. 2 – Customization of Rules

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