Cloud

SQL Server vs MongoDB: When the cloud is your adversary (Always Encrypted vs Queryable Encryption)

When the cloud admin is the threat: how SQL Server and MongoDB let you query encrypted data, and what each approach costs.

Oracle: Failed to create Cloud Base DB Service DB-System with RU 19.32.

Issue I recently had to create a 19c Oracle Database on the Base Database Service on Oracle@Azure. Creating the DB-System failed with the following error: Launch DbSystem failed. Reason : DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Failed to download the fast clone.DcsException{errorHttpCode=InternalError,(…)

SQLDay 2026 Workshops Overview

SQLDay 2026 offers a full-day workshop program on 11 May 2026, before the main conference scheduled for 12–13 May 2026 in Wrocław, with onsite and online participation options depending on the session. The workshops cover several areas(…)

Exascale new clone and snapshot capabilities

One of the most game changing capabilities of Exascale are the new clone and snapshot features compared to previous options available with ASM / ACFS. And since the business requirements for clones or snapshots to be made available rapidly and(…)

Creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VM Using the CLI

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides an easy-to-use command line interface named oci, with which you can do a lot of administrative tasks. Let’s see in this blog how to create virtual machines in OCI with this. Setting(…)

Deploying Azure Terraform code with Azure DevOps and a storage account as remote backend

Why this blog? While I was working for a customer, I was tasked to create an Azure infrastructure, using Terraform and Azure DevOps (ADO). I thought about doing it like I usually do with GitLab but it wasn’t possible(…)

Exascale storage architecture

In the first article, we discovered Exascale from a high level overview with a focus on Exascale Infrastructure. In this new article, we will dive into the Exascale storage architecture, with details about the physical components as well as the(…)

Exascale Infrastructure : new flavor of Exadata Database Service

Oracle unveiled Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure in summer 2024. In this blog post, the first of a series dedicated to Exascale, we will dive into its architecture after a brief presentation of what Exascale is. Introduction Exadata(…)

SQL Server’s LinkedIn Posts catch-up!

You may not have followed all my posts this summer about what we are doing with Microsoft SQL Server technology and the BI stack like Power BI and Azure Data Fabric. So, I thought I’d write a little(…)

Using Oracle API for MongoDB on OCI

If you’ve ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you’ve probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In response to this, Oracle (and(…)