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Pass summit – dbi visit day 3

The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 1

Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage(…)

First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

Adding a timeout in monitoring probes

A few months ago day, as I was writing the documentation for a monitoring probe, I suddenly realized that that probe, along with others I wrote during that time to monitor Documentum installations, had all a big, unexpected flaw. Indeed,(…)

Configure AFD with Grid Infrastructure software (SIHA & CRS) from very beginning.

Introduction : Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle(…)

ATP vs ADW – the Autonomous Database lockdown profiles

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle database has always distinguished two types of workloads: transactional (OLTP) and datawarehouse (VLDB, DWH, DSS, BI, analytics). There is the same idea in the managed Oracle Cloud with two autonomous database services.

Google Cloud Spanner – inserting data

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've created a Google Cloud Spanner database and inserted a few rows from the GUI. This is definitely not a solution fo many rows and here is a(…)

Google Cloud Spanner – no decimal numeric data types

By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database focused on scalability without compromising consistency and integrity. It is available only as a managed service in Google Cloud. Basically, the idea is to keep the scalability advantages(…)

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 3

After the deployment step with Terraform and the configuration/installation with Ansible, we will continue the installation of our Cloudera cluster with Cloudera Manager. By following the below steps you will see how to install CDH on our hosts using Cloudera(…)

ADWC new OCI interface

By Franck Pachot . A few things have changed about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service recently. And I've found the communication not so clear, so here is a short post about what I had to do to start the(…)