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Grégory Steulet

La Suisse concernée par le RGPD ?

13.02.2018 by Grégory Steulet

Le 25 mai 2018 entretra en application le Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données (RGPD). Il impactera toutes les entreprises opérant du traitement de données à caractère personnel sur des résidents européens. A l’aube de cette échéance, beaucoup de(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

GDPR compliant by installing software editors tools?

05.01.2018 by Grégory Steulet

GDPR goals and scope In few months (25 May 2018) the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force and will replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. His goals are to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle Licensing (R)evolution with VMware

21.12.2017 by Grégory Steulet

In 2015 I wrote a blog named “All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware”. This blog generated lots of comments and hopefully helped some DBAs and IT Managers understanding the potential issues that they(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

MySQL FATAL: error 1040: Too many connections & 1135 Can’t create a new thread

19.08.2015 by Grégory Steulet

Hi folks, Some of you probably already got error 1040 by playing with sysbench for instance and multiplying the number of MySQL threads. Documentation and blogs usually simply state that you have to increase the number of max_connections and the(…)

Hardware & Storage

All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware

10.01.2015 by Grégory Steulet

You are running Oracle on VMware and are not 100% sure that you are compliant with the Oracle licensing rules? This article is for you! As I have been confronted several times with Oracle License reviews with VMware installations, I(…)

Application integration & Middleware

MySQL versions performance comparison

26.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

This blog aims to make a performance comparison between the different MySQL versions/editions and also comparing the differents MySQL forks such as Percona Server and MariaDB. Indeed number of improvements as been done to innodb storage engine in the last(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Taskset: a useful tool to set CPU affinity

10.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

Today at the #ukoug_tech14 I had the chance to attend to the Christo Kutrovky’s session @kutrovsky (Pythian) about “Measuring Performance in Oracle Solaris & Oracle Linux”. This session aimed to present how to measure(…)

Operating systems

FIO (Flexible I/O) – a benchmark tool for any operating system

08.12.2014 by Grégory Steulet

I have just attended an interesting session held by Martin Nash (@mpnsh) at UKOUG 14 – Liverpool: “The least an Oracle DBA Should Know about Linux Administration” . During this session I(…)

Database management

Security improvements in MySQL 5.7

30.11.2014 by Grégory Steulet

If you have a look on the last mysql 5.7.4 version or later you will probably see that there are several security improvements. The list of added security features and improvements can be seen on the following page: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html(…)

Database management

Oracle AVDF – Database Firewall Policies

27.11.2014 by Grégory Steulet

The successful deployment of a Database Firewall depends on an effective policy. Oracle AVDF includes preconfigured firewall policies as described in the Firewall Policy page in the Policy tab of the Audit Vault Server console. These include policies that log(…)