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Cleanup a failed Oracle XE installation on Linux Mint

On this Blog I described on how to install Oracle XE on a current Linux Mint version (19.3. Tricia when writing the Blog). After the conversion of the Oracle provided rpm to a deb installation file with the tool(…)

Setup Oracle XE on Linux Mint – a funny exercise

On my old Laptop (Acer Travelmate with an Intel Celeron N3160 CPU) I wanted to install Oracle XE. Currently the available XE version is 18.4. My Laptop runs on Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia). The Blog will describe the steps I(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 3 – Creating the RDS PostgreSQL instance

In the last tow posts we had a look at DB Parameter Groups and Subnet Groups as these need to be ready when you want to deploy a RDS PostgreSQL instance on(…)

PostgreSQL 13: Backup validation and backup manifests

Currently a lot of stuff is being committed for PostgreSQL and what we will look at in this post is a feature, I am sure, a lot of PostgreSQL users have been waiting for for a long time: Finally there(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 2 – Subnet groups

In the last post we had a look at DB Parameter Groups when it comes to AWS RDS for PostgreSQL. This is one of the first things you should think about. But(…)

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL – 1 – DB Parameter Groups

When your go for AWS RDS you can very quickly bring up a database instance and start using it. I've written about my thoughts using this approach here and really encourage you(…)

Some thoughts about working with/on AWS

In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount(…)

Where does PostgreSQL store information about default privileges?

A recent comment on the blog post about PostgreSQL default privileges is the reason for this little post: "I’d love to know where postgres stores default privileges?". Well, all the information about privileges should be stored(…)

Rapid PostgreSQL cloning using AWS EBS snapshots

When you go for AWS EC2 instances to host your PostgreSQL deployments and you want to rapidly clone PostgreSQL instances for development or testing purposes you can make use of AWS EBS(…)

Oracle recovery concepts

I’ve published a while ago a twitter thead on some Oracle recovery concepts. For those who are not following twitter, I’m putting the whole thread here:   🔴⏬ Here I start a thread(…)