GigaOm x Pythian: Realities and Risks of Enterprise AI
In a recent interview on the Business Disruptions in Tech podcast, Howard Holton and ...
Zabbix is an open-source based enterprise level monitoring solution that aims for monitoring distributed network ...
I decided to write this blog post after reading some comments on my older posts and several online discussions where ...
Context Now that we're well into 2017, let's sit back and ask the question: "What was the best news of 2016 in the ...
The following is the step-by-step process of Flashback of RAC database to a Restore Point. 1) Set the environment to ...
Introduction Every DBA should know that the baseline is one of the most important pieces to make a proactive ...
Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 6: Timing Now that we know how to patch every ...
Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 4: The Rollback Procedure You will most likely never ...
The pt-online-schema-change tool has been a workhorse for years, allowing MySQL DBAs to alter tables with minimal ...
Overview On September 12, 2016, a security vulnerability affecting all current versions of MySQL and its various ...
Background The other day I was doing an import using impdp in 12.1.0.2, and received the following error:'ORA-30926: ...
Who here takes the time to adjust default values for SQL Server Configuration after installing it? Unless your company ...
Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 3.4 Patching the Grid Infrastructure 3.4.0 - ...
Introduction: Parallel execution in Oracle seems to be a topic of myths, mysteries and misunderstandings. In this post ...
Database version = 11.2.0.3.0 If you get following error while adding a Standby Redo Log (SRL) to a standby database in ...
When moving your MySQL instances to AWS, you would probably have to deal with this decision. This article will ...
Background
OEM 13c came out with a good new feature as a corrective action to add space to tablespaces. It could be done in OEM ...
I published a blog post called " Investigating IO Performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle" recently, and soon after ...
It is a common auditing requirement to log user connection events, including whether or not authentication was ...
There are different options for backing up Oracle databases to Cloud, but using Oracle Secure Backup module to take ...
As an Oracle DBA, one of our daily tasks is to optimize bad SQL statements that are affecting the system and causing ...

Valeriy Kravchuk's great recent post on using oprofile to profile MySQL mentioned how pt-stalk, the script from Percona ...
Like many organizations, yours is likely under pressure to reduce costs and resources, while increasing storage ...
I've recently been involved in quite a few database migrations to Oracle RDS. One thing that I had noticed when dealing ...
Why do we sometimes want to keep duplicate indexes? I’ve done dutiful DBA work in the past to identify and remove what ...
As an enterprise level NoSQL database software, Apache Cassandra provides many out-of-the-box security features that ...

MySQL Cluster is a highly available, distributed, shared-nothing database with very interesting performance ...

Expanding the Toolkit: The MongoDB Adapter In the other posts in the series I reviewed four standard handlers provided ...