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ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT;

By Franck Pachot . I love databases and, rather than trying to compare and rank them, I like to understand their difference. Sometimes, you make a mistake and encounter an error. Let's take the following example: create table DEMO (n(…)

EDB PEM – Monitor your Postgres cluster

In my last post, I explained, how to setup a HA Postgres Cluster using EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Failover Manager. As a next step, we want to install the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager to monitor what we setup before.

Setup a two node Postgres HA Cluster using EDB Advanced Server and EFM

Some time ago I had a customer looking for a two node PostgreSQL Master/Replica solution. As we need Oracle compatibility in a later step, we decided to go with the EnterpriseDB tools. This article should give you an introduction on(…)

Tracking Logs Inside a Documentum Container (part II)

Testing the log watcher This is part II of the article. Part I is here. All the above code has to be included in the entrypoint script(…)

Tracking Logs Inside a Documentum Container (part I)

Containers running under docker can have their stdout observed from the outside through the “docker logs”command; here is an excerpt of its usage: docker logs --help Usage: docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER Fetch the logs of a container Options: --details Show(…)

SQL Server Tips: Path of the default trace file is null

In addition of my precedent blog about this subject “SQL Server Tips: Default trace enabled but no file is active…”, I add a new case where the default path of the trace file was empty. The(…)

Adding PostgreSQL extensions without being super user?

Usually, when you need to install a PostgreSQL extension you do this as superuser (or at least I am doing it like this). The downside of that is, of course, that a super user must be available once a new(…)

Make Oracle database simple again!

Introduction Let’s have a look at how to make Oracle database as simple as it was before. Oracle database is a great piece of software, yes it’s quite expensive, but it’s still the reference and most of the companies can(…)

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about(…)

SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan…

Beginning of this year, it is good to clean up orphan users in SQL Server databases. Even if this practice must be done regularly throughout the year of course. 😉 During my cleaning day, a new case appears that(…)