SQL Injection with MySQL SLEEP()

Recently we've received an alert from one of our clients that running threads are high on one of their servers. Once we ...

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 ...

An overview of best practices for implementing ML systems - Part 1

In this series of blog posts, we will recommend some best practices identified from our own failures and successes ...

Caution: Using AutoUpgrade with Multiple Databases from the Same ORACLE_HOME

Here's a short and sweet post. "In Deploy mode, AutoUpgrade also confirms that the upgrade has succeeded, and moves ...

Leading Through Crisis – What Ernest Shackleton Can Teach Us About the COVID Pandemic

In January 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship became trapped in ice near Antarctica. For the next two years, ...

Merge Replication Identity Range Management - An Identity Disorder? Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored Merge Replication Identity Range Management of tables with identity columns. We ...

How to run DBSAT against Oracle RDS database

The scope of this article is to show how to run DBSAT (Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool) against an Amazon RDS ...

Automatic Flashback Of Standby Database in Oracle 19c

Oracle 19c Data Guard introduced a very cool feature — you can now automatically ...

Oracle 19c Data Guard introduced a very cool feature — you can now automatically flashback your standby if you ...