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SQL Server: Control the size of your Transaction Log file with Resumable Index Rebuild

Introduction In this blog post, I will demonstrate how the Resumable capability of Online index rebuild operation can help you to keep the transaction log file size under control. An index rebuild operation is done in a single transaction(…)

[Data]nymizer – Data anonymizer for PostgreSQL

Often there is the requirement to populate a test or development database with data from production, but this comes with a risk: Do you really want, that developers or testers have access to sensitive data? In a lot of companies(…)

Oracle Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded(3)

By Franck Pachot . This extends a previous post (Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded) where, in summary, the ideas were: When you gather statistics, you want the new executions to take into account the new statistics, which(…)

8000 PostgreSQL clusters on one host?

Coming back to the last post: 8000 databases in one PostgreSQL cluster?. As we've seen this is doable but comes with a lot of pain points. Another solution for this kind of requirement would be to host(…)

Oracle DB on Azure with Multitenant Option

By Franck Pachot . If you want to run an Oracle Database in the Microsoft Azure cloud, you will install it yourself on a VM. And then, you can expect the same as when you install it in your(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from source code

This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages

In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we'll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you(…)

JENKINS create a pipeline using Blue Ocean

Hi everybody, Last time we have seen what is Pipeline concepts including scripted and declarative pipeline methods.Today we will see how to create easily a declarative pipeline using Blue ocean tool.It will allow us to generate a workflow without(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration

In the last post we installed FreeBSD, configured the keyboard, time zone and the first network interface, which gets it's IP address via DHCP. In this post we'll look at how we can configure the second interface,(…)

Grafana, SQL and IN() list for multi-value variable

By Franck Pachot . I’ve recently looked at Grafana. Pros: it is really nice, I mean aesthetically. If you want to build a dashboard for your boss, or put it on a large screen in the open space, that’s(…)