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101 Series of Oracle in Google Cloud - Part I : Building ASM and Database

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Spark UDF memoization

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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 ...

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Obtaining an active-passive ProxySQL on FreeBSD

When designing a highly-available MySQL architecture, having a proxy to route the traffic to the appropriate instances ...

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The England and Wales Cricket Board governs every aspect of the sport in those two countries, and it holds massive ...

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How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was rewarding, too - both the ...

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Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL or GCE

When working with clients on database migration, there are a range of options we help them assess and evaluate. These ...

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CRS-10051: CVU found following errors with Clusterware setup

Error Statement I recently found this interesting message error in a CRS alert log from a client environment:

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 ...

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 restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

It is easy to get this one wrong. SSISDB is just a database, after all, and I've seen a number of instances where it ...

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Let DataGuard Broker Do ALL The Work

Why bother implementing the Oracle Data Guard Broker? The short answer is that it handles the heavy lifting of ...

Oracle

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - BMS

In these challenging and ever-changing times, most organizations would welcome the opportunity to reduce overhead, ...

Google Cloud

Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

While I was in the process of determining different HA solutions for PostgreSQL, Pgpool and PgBouncer both came into ...

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 ...

Oracle

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - Cloud Spanner

There are plenty of database migration options out there, and we love working with clients to help them assess and ...

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 ...

Google Cloud

Top Three Use Cases for Google Cloud Spanner

Since its launch in 2017, Google Cloud Spanner has built a reputation that’s very different from traditional databases. ...

Google

My Top 10 to Tune In To at Google Cloud Next 21

Are you a developer wanting to integrate gamification for your colleagues’ reward strategy? Or a CEO focused on better ...

Google Cloud

Data preparation with dbt and BigQuery

Raw incoming data needs to go through a series of data preparation steps before it can be used for analysis. These ...

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Google Cloud Composer Costs and Performance

Managing, optimizing and balancing cloud cost vs. performance is an ongoing challenge for all cloud architects and ...

Google Cloud

Orchestrating dbt Pipelines With Google Cloud: Part 1

In my previous post I showed you how to use dbt to expedite data preparation tasks on Google BigQuery. This time, I’ll ...

Google Cloud

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification Guide

Image credit: Megha Bedi Looking for how to prepare for the latest version of Google Cloud Professional Architect ...

Google Cloud

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part Two

This post is part two of describing (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery. In this post, I will use Dataform to ...

Google Cloud

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Google Kubernetes Engine

This tutorial shows you how to configure SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups (AG) using DH2i DxEnterprise and ...

Google Cloud

Consuming Tweets Using Apache Beam on Dataflow

Apache Beam is an SDK (software development kit) available for Java, Python, and Go that allows for a streamlined ETL ...

Google Cloud

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part One

This post describes (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery with unique and other check constraints, and unit ...

Google Cloud

Putting ML Prototypes Into Production Using TensorFlow Extended (TFX)

Introduction Machine learning projects start by building a proof-of-concept or a prototype. This entails choosing the ...

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101 Series of Oracle in Google Cloud - Part I : Building ASM and Database

Spark UDF memoization

ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google Cloud

Obtaining an active-passive ProxySQL on FreeBSD

Join, Group By, and Aggregate in Cloud Data Fusion

How the England and Wales Cricket Board scored with big data

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL or GCE

CRS-10051: CVU found following errors with Clusterware setup

How to run RHEL5/Centos5 in Google Cloud

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

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

How to restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

Let DataGuard Broker Do ALL The Work

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - BMS

Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

GCP features wish list for Google Next 2018

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - Cloud Spanner

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

Top Three Use Cases for Google Cloud Spanner

My Top 10 to Tune In To at Google Cloud Next 21

Data preparation with dbt and BigQuery

Google Cloud Composer Costs and Performance

Orchestrating dbt Pipelines With Google Cloud: Part 1

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification Guide

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part Two

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Google Kubernetes Engine

Consuming Tweets Using Apache Beam on Dataflow

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part One

Putting ML Prototypes Into Production Using TensorFlow Extended (TFX)

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