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ODA X9-2: it’s finally here!

Updated the 10th of June, 2022: add PMEM option on X9-2L. Introduction It’s been nearly 3 years that Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 reached the market, and in 2022 it’s still a great performer. But now it’s time(…)

SQL Server 2022 Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization

Introduction The Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) feature family is extended with SQL Server 2022.One of the most anticipated features is the Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization. I started to test this new feature. In this post, you will(…)

Automated patching at Idorsia with AWS Systems Manager

Servers patching is very important but can be very challenging. One of our customers, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd implemented successfully AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to automate patching not only of instances running in AWS Cloud but also covering(…)

SQL Server 2022 public preview available

This is a small blog post to share that the SQL Server 2022 public preview is available for download. The Microsoft announcement blog post and a summary of the new feature are available here : Announcing(…)

Helvetia used AWS SCT & DMS to migrate to AWS RDS for PostgreSQL

One of our long term-time customers, Helvetia, successfully migrated on-prem Oracle databases to AWS, not only because of the licenses, but more importantly: to deploy faster, innovate faster, and use the state-of-the-art open source(…)

DevOpsDays – Geneva

We started the Geneva DevOpsDays Thursday May 12th , with dbi services colleagues Pascal ZANETTE, Pierre-Yves BREHIER, Jean-Philippe CLAPOT and Chay TE, with the registration and a few cup of coffee, to prepare this first day.After the Welcome speech provided(…)

DevOpsDays Geneva 2022

Finally… this young event (3rd edition) for romandie is back after 2 years! It has brought together more than 400 people involved in DevOps culture for 2 intensive days, allowing people to share knowledge and networking in a very great(…)

dbi services at the DevOpsDays Geneva 2022

dbi services was at the DevopsDays Geneva 2022 this year, which took place at the Haute Ecole de Gestion campus, in Carouge on the 12th and 13th of May. Pierre-Yves Brehier, Pascal Zanette, Emmanuel Wagner, Chay Te and myself(…)

Installing MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OKE using a MySQL Operator

During previous months, I've had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes. This is how it all began...

How to upgrade Patroni

It's been a while since I wrote the blog post about PostgreSQL 13 and Patroni 2.0. On this blog I received a comment, if it's possible to explain, how to upgrade from Patroni 1.6 to 2.