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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 of NoSQL database (like Bigtable) but adding transactions, relational tables, SQL, structured data,… as in the relational databases we love…
By Franck Pachot . In pgSentinel: the sampling approach for PostgreSQL I mentioned that one of the advantages of the ASH approach is the ability to drill down from an overview of the database activity, down to the details where we can do some tuning. The idea is to always focus on the components which are relevant to our tuning…
This is the second follow up which covers this question: When you hash partition a table in PostgreSQL 11 where do null values for the partitioned column go to? Lets go… In the demo I used this little table: postgres=# select version(); version —————————————————————————————————————————– PostgreSQL 11beta1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28), 64-bi (1 row)…
By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog I talked about protecting data using Realms. With Database Vault we can also protect our database against some SQL statements. These statements can include SELECT, ALTER SYSTEM, database definition language (DDL), and data manipulation language (DML) statements. We can do this with Command Rules. In this blog I am demonstrating how we can…
As always, this time during my talk about the PostgreSQL 11 new features in Amsterdam, there have been question I could not immediately answer. The first one was this: Suppose we add a column with a default value in PostgreSQL 11, what happens when we change that default afterwards? Does the table get rewritten? Do we have more than on…
PostgreSQL conferences are always cool and this time it was in Amsterdam: PGDay Amsterdam. Beside that meeting all the great people was fun again the location was really outstanding: The TOBACCO Theater: Some impressions: Here you can see Devrim preparing the opening of the event with the introduction session: … and then it happened: We finally started: Jan kicked of…
By Franck Pachot . Here is the first test I did with the beta of pgSentinel. This Active Session History sampling is a new approach to Postgres tuning. For people coming from Oracle, this is something that has made our life a lot easier to optimize database applications. Here is a quick example showing how it links together some information…
There is new project, currently in beta, which aims to bring active session history (and probably more) to PostgreSQL: pgSentinel. Because PostgreSQL is highly extensible such projects are possible and usually are coming as an extension. pgSentinel is no exception to that so lets see how it can be installed. When you want to try the beta for your own,…
By Mouhamadou Diaw Database Vault can also be used in a multitenant environment. In a multitenant environment we must register Oracle Database Vault in the root first, then after in the PDBs. In this blog we will see how we can use realms to protect data in a pluggable database 12.1. In CDB$ROOT we have to create common accounts that…
By Franck Pachot . The file name convert parameters are not dynamic and require a restart of the instance. An enhancement request was filled in 2011. I mentioned recently on Twitter that it can be annoying with Active Data Guard when a file on the primary server is created on a path that has no file name conversion. However, Ian…
By Franck Pachot . When I did my first demo using tmux, I have written the following blog post to explain it: https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/using-tmux-for-semi-interactive-demos/. Since then I’ve done all my demos with this technique. My scripts and configuration files have evolved now I have uploaded the on GitHub to share them: https://github.com/FranckPachot/scripts/tree/master/tmux-demo The README.md explains the pre-requisites (a recent version of…
By Franck Pachot . For a previous post I’ve run on 18c a script of mine to get the V$MYSTAT delta values between two queries. This script (new version available on GitHub) generates the queries to store some values and subtract them on the next execution. But I had to fix it for 18c because I relied on some order…
