Database Administration & Monitoring

How Windows Admin Center can backup on Azure

To be honest I never used before Windows Admin Center but after some hours of utilization I’m still convinced. As SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool to manage our SQL Server instances with a CMS (Centralized Management Server),(…)

How to run Avamar backup on SQL Agent Job with PowerShell

By one of our customer we use Avamar for the backup and restore solution. I was asked by this customer to find a solution to run Avamar backups for a group of databases on a specified instance. In fact,(…)

Patching ODA from 18.3 to 18.8

Introduction 19c will soon be available for your ODAs. But you may not be ready. Here is how to patch your ODA from 18.3 to 18.8, the very latest 18c release. This patch has here been applied on X7-2M hardware.

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 4 – Changing parameters

If you followed that last posts about DB Parameter Groups, Subnet Groups and Setting up the RDS instance you should have a running RDS instance. You should also(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 3 – Creating the RDS PostgreSQL instance

In the last tow posts we had a look at DB Parameter Groups and Subnet Groups as these need to be ready when you want to deploy a RDS PostgreSQL instance on(…)

PostgreSQL 13: Backup validation and backup manifests

Currently a lot of stuff is being committed for PostgreSQL and what we will look at in this post is a feature, I am sure, a lot of PostgreSQL users have been waiting for for a long time: Finally there(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 2 – Subnet groups

In the last post we had a look at DB Parameter Groups when it comes to AWS RDS for PostgreSQL. This is one of the first things you should think about. But(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 1 – DB Parameter Groups

When your go for AWS RDS you can very quickly bring up a database instance and start using it. I've written about my thoughts using this approach here and really encourage you(…)

Some thoughts about working with/on AWS

In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount(…)

Where does PostgreSQL store information about default privileges?

A recent comment on the blog post about PostgreSQL default privileges is the reason for this little post: "I’d love to know where postgres stores default privileges?". Well, all the information about privileges should be stored(…)