PostgreSQL

Control-M /EM: “Failed installing PostgreSQL database” error message

Introduction: During a Control-M installation, you can face some issues, sometime it’s due to a lack of prerequisites ( Keep the best practices and be sure to follow the advice from BMC site experts, take a look on the installation(…)

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

Microsoft Flexible Server Compute V5

Today I had the chance to move forwar with performance testing and some checks on two Flexible Server – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, one with 8vCPU, 64GB RAM and 512GB Storage (2300 IOPs) and another one with the same vCPU(…)

Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, Status March 2023

As many know about a year ago I wrote some critical posts about Microsofts Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, now it is time to take a look again. At first, many promised functions where delivered with a latency of about one(…)

TimescaleDB

Introduction TimescaleDB is a “time-series” database (TSDB). This kind of databases are optimized for storing, manipulating and querying time-series data. But… what is time-series data ?Time-series data is a collection of metrics (regular) or measurements (irregular)(…)

A generic jdbc tester (part I)

A generic utility to test JDBC connections to any RDBMS or no SQL data source whose JDBC drivers are provided. Listing, PostgreSQL, Oracle Thin.

How to submit a talk for a conference

I already did some talks at conferences and I had already the honor to select talks for a conference. During this talk selection I found some excellent examples on how to do to a proposal, but unfortunately also some examples(…)

Uyuni, an open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure (2) – Adding a client

In the last post we’ve installed and configured the Uyuni server. In this post we’ll add our first client we later on can manage through the Uyuni server. Quite some distributions are(…)

Fast setup of a two node repmgr cluster with auto failover

This blog is about a fast, script based, setup of a repmgr two node cluster with auto failover. This setup is very easy and the requirements comparing to a patroni setup very low, for exapmle as open port on the(…)