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Oracle

Sending email from Oracle with utl_smtp via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Note: This article was updated following Symantec Trust issues earlier in 2018.

Oracle

How to move or clone a Microsoft Azure virtual machine?

Introduction Have you ever tried to change the definitions of your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine? Tasks like changing ...

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ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google Cloud

Introduction In this article we will explore one approach for deploying ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google ...

Cloud

Ansible and AWS automation

Overview The goal was to create and manage a MySQL RDS instance and learn how to control AWS resources by using ...

Oracle

gh-ost with Amazon RDS / Aurora

Doing online schema changes in a managed database environment is not as straight-forward as one may think. Using gh-ost ...

MySQL

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

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Microsoft Azure

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 ...

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Idempotent and Nullipotent in Cloud

It’s funny how the more things change in tech, the more we end up reaching for those dusty university textbooks. ...

Oracle

Locating most current record using ROW_NUMBER() vs. Index Full Scan (Min/Max)

Very often when reading data, we need to locate the most current record for a set of conditions. One typical example is ...

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.

Google Cloud

The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

“The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken ...

Cloud

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

Once upon a time CPU utilization was quite a useful metric. Following are the output of several tools that provide CPU ...

Oracle

HugePages for Oracle Database in Azure Cloud

So, what's up? In case you don't know, my co-worker Gleb Otochkin has written a couple of blog entries about HugePages' ...

MySQL

Log buffer #555: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Microsoft Azure

Cosmos DB indexing fundamentals – SQL on the edge episode 15

As Microsoft's premier NoSQL cloud offering, Cosmos DB offers some interesting design decisions and trade-offs that are ...

Cloud

How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

One of the more common struggles I’ve had to assist with in regard to Amazon RDS is enabling binary logging on read ...

MySQL

Log buffer #556: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Cloud

Loading data into Azure Data Warehouse with Data Factory - SQL on the edge episode 18

Earlier this year Microsoft released the next generation of its data pipeline product Azure Data Factory. The first ...

Analytics

Analytics in the cloud - Azure analysis services

Azure Analysis Services is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that provides enterprise-grade data models in ...

Oracle

How to creates Kubernetes jobs with Python

In this blog post I will do a quick guide, with some code examples, on how to deploy a Kubernetes Job programmatically, ...

Oracle

How to run RHEL5/Centos5 in Google Cloud

Google Cloud instances run on top of the KVM hypervisor. In newer KVM versions, such as the one used in Google Cloud, ...

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

I explained in an earlier post how I am using GCP's Cloud Shell for all of my command-line needs all the time. Whenever ...

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 Microsoft Azure Data ...

Oracle

Enable X11 forwarding after Sudo SSH session for AWS EC2 Linux instance

Challenges Working with a secure environment presents some challenges and this post will demonstrate how to overcome ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure

Azure Cloud Shell - cloud what?

What is Azure's Cloud Shell? Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based, interactive shell that comes in two flavors: ...

Microsoft Azure

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape , to talk about what’s happening in the world of ...

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 ...

Google Cloud

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 ...

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Sending email from Oracle with utl_smtp via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

How to move or clone a Microsoft Azure virtual machine?

ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google Cloud

Ansible and AWS automation

gh-ost with Amazon RDS / Aurora

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

Data classification with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL DB (GDPR, PII, HIPPA...etc)

Idempotent and Nullipotent in Cloud

Locating most current record using ROW_NUMBER() vs. Index Full Scan (Min/Max)

Log buffer #549: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

The data platform in the age of serverless architecture

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

HugePages for Oracle Database in Azure Cloud

Log buffer #555: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Cosmos DB indexing fundamentals – SQL on the edge episode 15

How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

Log buffer #556: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Loading data into Azure Data Warehouse with Data Factory - SQL on the edge episode 18

Analytics in the cloud - Azure analysis services

How to creates Kubernetes jobs with Python

How to run RHEL5/Centos5 in Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform quick tip: Cloud Shell boost mode for Docker development

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

Enable X11 forwarding after Sudo SSH session for AWS EC2 Linux instance

Airflow Scheduler: the very basics

Azure Cloud Shell - cloud what?

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

GCP features wish list for Google Next 2018

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

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