What Enterprise IT Leaders Are Really Saying About AI
Enterprise AI has reached an interesting inflection point.
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I will go through detailed steps here on how to recreate a disk group used by CRS. Some things to bear in mind: - I ...

Introduction In this article we will explore one approach for deploying ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google ...
The idea Due to the nature of my consulting work, I mostly work in Linux environments and use bash for scripting. But ...

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(In the previous post, Part 4, we covered Compression and Bloom Filters) In this blog post, we continue on our series ...
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Update 11-JUN-2021: Doc ID 2353710.1 has been updated. It is recommended now to apply two patches: 10.1.3 Home Patch ...

Intro With Microsoft releasing SQL Server on Linux and a lot of SQL Server DBAs coming from a predominantly Windows ...

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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 ...
I recently performed a Proof of Concept (POC) to compare and contrast Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup performance ...
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Introduction Indexing plays a quintessential role in database query performance and MongoDB is no exception. Choosing ...
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Context On occasion I have found it necessary to immediately kill all processes for a particular user on a Linux or ...

Facing an InfiniBand error? Let me guess: Ports 03, 05, 06, 08, 09 and 12 are alerting? You have a Quarter Rack? Have ...
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 ...
So you’ve started developing an Ethereum project and TestRPC has worked wonderfully. Now you're ready to set up a CI/CD ...