Technology Survey

PosgreSQL + SQL Server = WiltonDB – Part 1 – Installation

I know,  few years ago, it was uncredible to associate SQL Server & PostgreSQL or see Microsoft in the Open source world. 😉 The world changes and we follow it… My colleague Daniel Westermann will enjoy that I write(…)

SQL Server Tools: First steps with go-sqlcmd tool on Windows Server 2022

As you know, with the new version of SSMS since the version 18, the tools like sqlcmd are no more included in the installation. You need to download separately the tools that you need here Few months ago, Microsoft(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 3

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 06:00 am for us…It’s in our time offset, this time better to wake up! 😉 My schedule for the day: D3B1 – KATMAI – SQL MI on Kubernetes – Intermediate – Dhananjay(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 2

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 03:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but better than yesterday. My schedule for the day: D2B1 – HYDRA – Overview of SQL Server 2022 – Intermediate – Bob Ward(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 1

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 00:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but when we like our work and like to learn, we stay up with plaisir. My schedule for the day: After the login,(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit Pre-con 2022

Thanks to dbi services to let me the opportunity to follow this week and next week, the Data Platform Virtual Summit beginning with the Pre-con. I subscribe the session of Guy Glantser about The Performance(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2 points, I will(…)

PostgreSQL on 80 core ARM Server

This Blog is about intallation and testing PostgreSQL 14 latest on an ARM based 80 core Server using Rocky Linux 8.6. Many thanks to Happyware for providing the machine used for this Blog. https://happyware.com/ The machine used for this(…)

Striim, real-time data integration

In my first blog-post about Striim, I showed you how to create an Initial Load from an on-premise database to an Azure SQL DB. In this second blog post I will create an application which will stream Data(…)

Striim, first step

In this blog-post I will discuss about my first test with Striim. Striim is a data integration platform which can ingest real-time data from a variety of sources (SQL Server, Oracle, Kafka, Hadoop…) and quickly deliver it to Cloud(…)