Database Administration & Monitoring

An introduction to OMrun – 1 – A simple data comparison with the PostgreSQL Adapter

With the integration of OMIS into dbi services we also got a new product: OMrun. OMrun is all about data, especially comparing, validating and anonymizing data from various sources against various targets.

dbachecks: how to add your own checks

As a DBA I used more and more the dbachecks at customer place to validate environments. It became part of our DBA toolkit at the same place than its famous brother the dbatools.My colleague Steven Naudet did a(…)

Recreate a Patroni replica using pgBackRest

In my last blog we had a look on how to bootstrap a complete Patroni Cluster from pgBackRest. But there is also the possibility to recreate only one Patroni node using pgBackRest. In this blog we(…)

Patch a SQL Server instance automatically with PowerShell

In my last blog post I explained how to automatically download the last Service Pack and Cumulative Update for all versions of SQL Server.Here I will show you how to patch your SQL Server instances automatically with some cmdlets(…)

ODA : Do You Know The MOVE Table In MySQL DB Repository

By Mouhamadou Diaw During a consulting on a customer, we faced the following issue when trying to delete a dbhome Message:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGO-2470 : Working copy “OraDB19000_home1” is involved in an incomplete move or upgrade operation The(…)

PostgreSQL: Dropping a table automatically if another table is dropped

Imagine the following use case: You have a table t1, and based on it’s contents you create another table t2. What you want to achieve is: If table t1 gets dropped, you want to have table t2 to be dropped(…)

Bootstrap Patroni Cluster from pgBackRest Backup

While preparing myself for the pgconf.eu in Berlin this week I made a lot of research regarding Patroni and pgBackRest. I was aware that it’s possible to recreate a replica from a pgBackRest backup. But I was also wondering, what(…)

2022.pgconf.eu, what a blast

2022.pgconf.eu is currently happening in Berlin. We have a record number of 600 attendees, this makes it the largest ever PostgreSQL Conference Europe and we’re hitting the hard limits of the venue.

Patching ODA HA from 19.14 to 19.16

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patching an ODA is always exciting. Preparing a patch of an ODA HA may seem more complicated that an single ODA. But it’s the same processus. All patching operations should be run on one node. In(…)

Oracle Exchange Partition

The Oracle Exchange Partition is a method allowing to : exchange the data segments from a non partitioned table to a partitioned table exchange the data segments from a partitioned table to a non partitioned table. This method is useful(…)