Database Administration & Monitoring

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(…)

Meson vs. make: PostgreSQL build and test times

In the last post we’ve looked into how you can build PostgreSQL with Meson instead of the traditional way using configure/make. The reason for this was a thread(…)

Building PostgreSQL with Meson

Last year, around this time, there started a thread on hackers which was about building PostgreSQL with meson. I didn’t know anything about Meson at this time, and don’t know much more(…)

Oracle Database Row Archiving

In a recent customer project, I was suffering to delete millions of rows from a LOG table. Removing 3 months of data took more than 30 minutes with the best optimization possible. After a while, I remembered that a very(…)