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Do you really need varchar(n) in PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL comes with three data types for storing characters. char, varchar and text. What we often see at our customers is, that varchar(n) is used when they want to store characters and limit the amount of characters which are allowed(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade fails due to missing dm_filestore

At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there(…)

Cilium installation in Minikube using a multi-cluster environment

In this post I’ll share my experience with installing Cilium in Minikube on my Mac. It was not that hard but I faced an issue I had to troubleshoot. I’ll also show you how to create several Kubernetes clusters(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 2

After a reenergising diner with a typical German meal… Sushis!  My colleague (and now food mate!) Chay Te and I were ready to rock Day 2. The day is structured the same way as Day 1 but I’ll(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 2

This second day started with 4 sessions for the morning. The first session was with two product managers, Marcel Britsch and Swathi Poddar, and their vision into DevOps.As you’ll guess, it was non-technical but about principle around their(…)

TOASTing in PostgreSQL, let’s see it in action

The last two posts introduced TOASTing strategies and how TOAST tables look like. Have a look at those posts if you are not yet familiar with TOAST in PostgreSQL. In this post we'll look(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 4 – Focus on Azure SQL Managed Instance

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 09:30 am with the keynote: Creating a Data Culture… My schedule for the day: D4B1 – SPHINX – Configure SQL Server for efficient troubleshooting – Intermediate – Christophe LaporteD4B2 –(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 1

Here we are in Berlin, for the famous DevOpsDays and for the first time here, let’s jump in it and see how’s DevOps culture is implemented in Germany. After the welcome talk, we followed sequentially 4(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 1

I’m delighted to attend this DevOpsDays in Berlin. Thank you Dbi Services #greatplacetowork for this opportunity. This is my first DevOpsDays event and I’m all ear and motivated to get the most of it with my colleague Chay Te.

Documentum – Detect a Repository parent process being killed

There could be several reasons why a Linux process gets killed. Of course, it could be someone using the kill command but, in this blog, I will talk about the Kernel Panic triggered by the Operating System in case(…)