Database Administration & Monitoring

Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.

Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 RC1 was released out a few weeks ago and it is time to start blogging about my favorite core engine features that will be shipped with the next version of SQL Server. Things should not be completely(…)

POUG Conference 2019

POUG (Pint with Oracle users group) organized his annual conference on 6-7th September in Wroclaw in New Horizons Cinema.

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to(…)

Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA

Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool(…)

Patching or reimaging your ODA?

Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often,(…)

EDB EPAS 12 comes with interval partitioning

While community PostgreSQL 12 is in beta quite some time now (currently in beta 3) it usually takes some time until EDB EPAS will be available on top of the next major(…)

Feedback on the EMEA Red Hat Partner Conference 2019 in Prague

A few weeks ago I attended the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference for the first time. The Red Hat Conference took place in Prague from June 25th to 27th. If you are interested in Open Source technologies and(…)

Sparse OVM virtual disks on appliances

For some reason, you may need to sparse OVM virtual disks in an Oracle appliances. Even though that feature is present trough the OVM Manager, most of the Oracle appliances doesn’t have any OVM Manager deployed on it. Therefore(…)

Red Hat 8 Server in 9 minutes into the Google Cloud

Do you have 9 minutes to learn how to quick start with the Google Cloud? Here is a simple copy/past procedure to successfully deploy a Red Hat 8 compute server into the Cloud. Installation of the Google command client(…)