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Remote Infrastructure Management Services With 24/7 Proactive Support for Distributed Systems

Your primary data center hums along in Chicago. A disaster-recovery site sits in Phoenix. Edge nodes are scattered ...

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IT Infrastructure Management Services: Cut Costs by 60% (With 24/7 Coverage)

When a critical server fails at 3 a.m., someone has to wake up and fix it. For most enterprise IT teams, that reality ...

Data engineers balancing NOLOGGING performance with NOARCHIVELOG safety in a data warehouse environment.

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Getting To The Bottom Of NOLOGGING, NOARCHIVELOG and Standby Databases

Are you setting up a data warehouse and feeling stuck between the performance gains of NOLOGGING and the safety of ...

Data Engineering

The Art of the Deployment Pipeline

Navigating the complexities of data engineering releases can cause endless sleepless nights for even the most seasoned ...

Database

What is an MSP's role in a hybrid-cloud strategy?

A managed service provider (MSP) for hybrid cloud acts as an expert service layer that unifies management, security, ...

Database

The Difference Between Database Managed Services and Managed Database Services

The terms 'database managed services' and 'managed database services' sound almost identical and are often used ...

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Why Email Is Still the #1 Cyber Threat — and What You Can Do About It

Even with a plethora of communications tools in the workplace, email isn’t going anywhere — and that means it will ...

Infra Ops

Fixing CrowdStrike in VMware ESX vSphere Workaround

We identified a client with CrowdStrike issues on old Windows 10 machines with no local admin account and no access to ...

Oracle

Expand Elastic Configuration on Oracle Exadata - Part 2

In Part 1 of this blog series, we looked at how to reimage a vanilla Exadata compute or storage node to install the ...

Infra Ops

An Overview of Understanding Chown and Chmod in Linux

Introduction In the world of Linux, managing file permissions and ownership is crucial for maintaining security and ...

Oracle

Replicating users and tablespaces with Oracle GoldenGate

I decided to write this blog post after reading some comments on my older posts and several online discussions where ...

Infra Ops

Your Xtrabackup cheat sheet

My goal in this post is to present you with examples of useful operations using xtrabackup, using options which in some ...

Oracle

Oracle service secrets: group and filter

At the KSCOPE16 conference in Chicago I recorded a two minute tech-tip with Bob Rhubart of OTN about adding services to ...

DevOps

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Recently, I was faced with the need to create and configure a Neo4j cluster. In order to be able to easily experiment ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Automate Killing Inactive Sessions with Resource Manager

Problem Statement Are you manually (or via a script) killing idle sessions on your database? As a consequence, your ...

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Harnessing the power of Jinja2 with Ansible

Configuration files management is the core component of every configuration management tool. Templates are one of the ...

MySQL

InnoDB flushing and Linux I/O

Since documentation is not very clear to me on the topic of InnoDB flushing in combination with Linux IO (specifically ...

Database

Fixing could not start service broker for database

Introduction Blogging is something I love because it gives me a chance to share the ideas I have and the knowledge I ...

Infra Ops

Centralized authentication with Red Hat directory server for Linux systems

User management on Linux systems can be tedious, and when you add in more than 10 systems the chances are it is going ...

Oracle

How to Quickly Ignore ORA Error on Agent Layer

I had a very specific situation where I wanted to ignore an error from a specific agent. It turns out that it is easier ...

DevOps

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

So you’ve started developing an Ethereum project and TestRPC has worked wonderfully. Now you're ready to set up a CI/CD ...

Infra Ops

Eight ways to ensure your applications are enterprise-ready

When it comes to building database applications and solutions, developers, DBAs, engineers and architects have a lot of ...

Infra Ops

How to recover space from already deleted files

Wait, what? Deleted files are gone, right? Well, not so if they’re currently in use, with an open file handle by an ...

Cloud

What’s the Measure of a Maturity Model?

In the Cloud Ops line of business at Pythian, a key area of concern for our team is maturity, and over the course of ...

Database

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Episode 53 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of Datascape Podcast. In today’s show, guests Shara French, Microsoft ...

Infra Ops

Installing Elasticsearch Using Ansible – the Quick Way!

Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we bring forward a popular post from ...

Google Workspace

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

Introduction As remote and hybrid workplaces become the norm, organizations face a difficult challenge: empowering ...

Oracle

EBS: Access the PDF Outputs After the Migration to AWS

During the Oracle E-Business Suite migrations from on-premise to AWS Cloud (similar to any cloning exercise), you may ...

Oracle

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought ...

Data Engineering

DAG Monitoring with Airflow

What is Apache Airflow? Airflow is a platform to programmatically author (designing pipelines, creating workflows), ...

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Remote Infrastructure Management Services With 24/7 Proactive Support for Distributed Systems

IT Infrastructure Management Services: Cut Costs by 60% (With 24/7 Coverage)

Getting To The Bottom Of NOLOGGING, NOARCHIVELOG and Standby Databases

The Art of the Deployment Pipeline

What is an MSP's role in a hybrid-cloud strategy?

The Difference Between Database Managed Services and Managed Database Services

Why Email Is Still the #1 Cyber Threat — and What You Can Do About It

Fixing CrowdStrike in VMware ESX vSphere Workaround

Expand Elastic Configuration on Oracle Exadata - Part 2

An Overview of Understanding Chown and Chmod in Linux

Replicating users and tablespaces with Oracle GoldenGate

Your Xtrabackup cheat sheet

Oracle service secrets: group and filter

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

How to Automate Killing Inactive Sessions with Resource Manager

Harnessing the power of Jinja2 with Ansible

InnoDB flushing and Linux I/O

Fixing could not start service broker for database

Centralized authentication with Red Hat directory server for Linux systems

How to Quickly Ignore ORA Error on Agent Layer

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

Eight ways to ensure your applications are enterprise-ready

How to recover space from already deleted files

What’s the Measure of a Maturity Model?

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Installing Elasticsearch Using Ansible – the Quick Way!

Protecting Your Google Workspace Environment

EBS: Access the PDF Outputs After the Migration to AWS

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

DAG Monitoring with Airflow

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