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Scanning Ansible code with Ansible Lint

Introduction It’s always good to learn something new. But doing it the right way from the very beginning is even better. I recently started to work with Ansible and after creating a few roles, I quickly realized that there(…)

PostgreSQL indexes and operators

Creating a standard B-tree index in PostgreSQL is nothing special and usually we do it without thinking about what happens in the background. For the standard data types like e.g. int or text we do not need to know anything(…)

Some basics about time zones in PostgreSQL

As soon as you have an application which works across time zones you will have to deal with that properly in the database. I've seen many applications that didn't care of that at the beginning, and much work had to(…)

Magic Upgrade to 21c with Replay Upgrade Feature

Last week I did some upgrade tests from 19c to 21c. The plan was to copy a 19c PDB to a CDB 21c using Online Clone and then upgrade it to 21c. I have done this many times for 19c(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 4 – Taking a snapshot and running Log Catch Up

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), we will be looking how to run snapshot and Log Catch Up and how will this take effects on our oracle database. For more information(…)

In which order do triggers fire in PostgreSQL?

When you are working with triggers it might be important to know in which order they fire. Of course, a "before" triggers fires before an "after" trigger. But what happens if you have two or more triggers for the same(…)

Kubernetes : two different OCI runtimes

Quick recap : in the previous episode, we have seen how to move from a Kubernetes cluster powered by Docker into a future-proof Kubernetes cluster, using containerd. Now let’s move on and fully enjoy the power of having(…)

How much shared memory is PostgreSQL using? (2) – details

In the last post in this two post series we've briefly looked at configuring huge pages on Linux for PostgreSQL. It became clear, that calculating the number of huge pages purely based on the setting of(…)

How much shared memory is PostgreSQL using? (1) – basics

Have you ever wondered if the value of shared_buffers is the only setting which controls how much shared memory PostgreSQL is actually using? There was a nice addition committed to PostgreSQL 15 recently, which helps in answering(…)

After startup database with srvctl, sqlplus as sysdba results in ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

A few days ago a customer called me, that he have a strange issue with a new created database in a oracle restart configuration with 19c. Problem The customer has patches his 19c Databases with the newest RU and(…)