Hervé Schweitzer

YaK Core – The Holy Grail for Deploying Ansible Code Everywhere

YaK core Multi-Platform open source Automation Tool simplifies the deployment of Ansible playbooks through a clean UI and API. It offers an intuitive interface where users can upload playbooks, configure parameters, and deploy them seamlessly across various platforms, and(…)

Delphix Data Virtualization and Masking

After successfully completing several customer projects involving Delphix products, Data Virtualization and Data Masking, I decided to set up a complete infrastructure internally to test the combination of both products. Delphix Data Virtualization Creates only a virtual copy of(…)

2022.pgconf.eu Berlin conference for tech

Last week, the biggest European PostgreSQL event of the year took place in Berlin (2022.pgconf.eu). This event is an excellent opportunity to meet developers from the PostgreSQL community and to attend high profile tech presentations. Tuesday evening we started(…)

How the YaK is born

It all began with a challenge In the consulting job, some tasks can be a bit repetitive. They also take up valuable consulting time that the client would be more than happy to use for higher value-added tasks. So, my(…)

Deep dive Postgres at the #pgconfeu conference

Today I followed many good technical sessions at the European Postgres conference. The Postgres conferences are really technical oriented, you will find no marketing sessions there and you learn a lot of things. As promised yesterday, I wrote today my(…)

#SwissPGDay is a place where you can meet developers of the PostgreSQL community

As the #SwissPGDay is located one hour south of  Zurich we traveled yesterday evening to Rapperswil, where is a nice little Swiss city. For the People coming one day before, Stephan Wagner organized a nice dinner in(…)

With Oracle Goldengate take care of additional column creation on the replicated database

This week I worked on a GoldenGate 12.1.2.1.10 POC setup and was facing an issue which for me is a serious drawback of the Oracle GoldenGate product.If you want to create additional columns on the target database online in a(…)

Adding new tables to an existing Oracle GoldenGate replication

Once a replication environment is set up, it’s rarely forever. Adding tables to an Oracle GoldenGate replication group with minimal impact to the current replication is quite a difficult operation. This posting should help you with this task. In the example below,(…)

Jonathan Lewis @ dbi services: Oracle Optimizer workshop

Last week, Oracle Ace Director Jonathan Lewis held an Oracle Optimizer Workshop at dbi services BaselArea. I would like to share some of the key learnings of this really interesting exchange I experienced together with my colleagues.

Take care while upgrading your Oracle DB with “DBUA”

Last Week at my Customer, I used dbua to upgrade an oracle database 10h to 11g, the migration run successfully. But next day I had a monitoring message that the diag directory is groing very fast.