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When Read-Scale availability groups and Windows Failover Cluster are not good friends

A couple of days ago, with some fellow French data platform MVPS (@thesqlgrrrl and @Conseilit) we discussed an issue around Read-Scale availability groups(…)

OpenShift 4.1 Partner Introduction Day

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today was the OpenShift Partner Introduction Day by RedHat. This event happened at Lausanne There were people with different backgrounds. After presenting the RedHat compagny, the speaker explained what is Openshifts and why people must adopt(…)

ODA X8-2: the new generation

Introduction ODA X7-2 marked the maturity of the Oracle Database Appliance evolution, with 3 models suitable for nearly all customers using Oracle databases. The X7-2M was my favorite, with a lots of cores available (and restrainable), enough memory for dozens(…)

How to get a big picture of K8s pods and PVs by script

A couple of weeks ago, during an internal dbi services workshop about Docker and K8s, I got an interesting question: is it possible to get a big picture of pods connected to one specific persistent volume(…)

RMAN in a Multitenant Environment

By Mouhamadou Diaw The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery with pluggable databases (PDBs)(…)

Moving oracle database to new home on ODA

Moving database to new ORACLE_HOME is a common dba task. Performing this task on an ODA will need an additional step knowing ODA Lite is using an internal Derby database for the metadata. ODA HA will not be a problem(…)

Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.

Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 RC1 was released out a few weeks ago and it is time to start blogging about my favorite core engine features that will be shipped with the next version of SQL Server. Things should not be completely(…)

POUG Conference 2019

POUG (Pint with Oracle users group) organized his annual conference on 6-7th September in Wroclaw in New Horizons Cinema.

Scripting is not Just a Series of Commands

I saw, several times now, scripts were it is just a series of commands, sometime just created with copy/paste and few changes. This is far from best practices in terms of readability, maintainability and debug (ability 🙂).