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Using Ansible to bring up a three node Patroni cluster in minutes

Automation is key today, nobody wants to do the same tasks over and over and again. Cloud without automation is not even possible. There are several tools around that help with automation and one of the most popular is(…)

ODA: The Patch version must be 12.2.1.4.0

When trying to patch your virtualized ODA with patch 12.1.2.12.0 and immediately after that with 12.2.1.4.0, you might consider to load the patches like this: [root@XX1 Oracle_Soft_Repo]# oakcli unpack -package /cloudfs/Oracle_Soft_Repo/p26433712_1212120_Linux-x86-64_1of2.zip Unpacking will take some time, Please(…)

Azure SQL Managed instances, Business Critical Tier and high availability

Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud transformation has begun in many forms at customer(…)

EDB Failover Manager 3.3 With Virtual Ip Address

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I talked about installing and configuring Edb Failover Manager with PostgreSQL. The configuration of a Virtual Ip Address was not discussed in this previous article.In this blog(…)

ODA : Free up space on local filesystems

Introduction When you work on ODA you sometimes get struggled with local filesystem free space. ODA has terabytes of space on data disks, but local disks are still limited to a raid-1 array of 2x 480GB disks. And only few(…)

PAM Authentication With PostgreSQL

By Mouhamadou Diaw PostgreSQl supports many authentication methods. The PAM authentication method operates similarly to password except that it uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) as the authentication mechanism. The user must exist in the database before PAM can be used(…)

Deploying SQL Server on K8s with Helm charts

During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Application Streams

You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming(…)

Understand Oracle Text at a glance

What is Oracle Text? Oracle Text provides indexing, word and theme searching, and viewing capabilities for text in query applications and document classification applications. Oracle text activation for a user create user ORATXT identified by oratxt ; grant ctxapp(…)

Transparent Data Encryption – Certificate in master database: is it really a good practice?

As encryption solution in SQL Server, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is simple and quick to set up. That's why this is a common encryption mechanism. TDE encrypts data with a certificate at the page level, before SQL Server writes on(…)