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SQL Server 2019 availability group R/W connection redirection, routing mesh and load balancing

SQL Server 2019 availability group feature will provide secondary to primary replica read/write connection redirection. I wrote about it in a previous blog post here. It consists(…)

ORA-01000 and agent13c

Recently I received errors messages from OEM13c saying too many cursors were opened in a database: instance_throughput:ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded My database had currently this open_cursors value: SQL> show parameter open_cursors NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ open_cursors integer(…)

Documentum – D2+Pack Plugins not installed correctly

In a previous blog, I explained how D2 can be installed in silent. In this blog, I will talk about a possible issue that might happen when doing so with the D2+Pack Plugins that aren’t being(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 3

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference Core Note Satya Nadella – Day 3 The day started with the Core Note from Satya Nadella. Being alone at the conference allowed me to find one of the very last well-located seat to(…)

Schedule reboots of your AWS instances and how that can result in a hard reboot and corruption

From time to time you might require to reboot your AWS instances. Maye you applied some patches or for whatever reason. Rebooting an AWS instance can be done in several ways: You can of course do that directly from the(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 2

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference SQL Server 2019 is in “public preview” stage, live from Microsoft Inspire 2019 – Day 2 Anshul Rampal (SQL Server product marketing team) and Rony Chatterjee (SQL Server Core team / Product Manager) presented(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 1

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference Summary of my first participation – Day 1 After 20 years in the business of IT Infrastructure, time has come to open my mind 😉 and Microsoft Inspire is the perfect opportunity. It is(…)

Email Spoofing

Have you ever had this unhealthy sensation of being accused of facts that do not concern you? To feel helpless in the face of an accusing mail, which, because of its imperative and accusing tone,(…)

Migrating your users from md5 to scram authentication in PostgreSQL

One of the new features in PostgreSQL 10 was the introduction of stronger password authentication based on SCRAM-SHA-256. How can you migrate your existing users that currently use md5 authentication to the new method without any(…)

Huawei Dorado 6000 V3 benchmark

I had the opportunity to test the new Dorada 6000 V3 All-Flash storage system. See what the all-new Dorado 6000 V3 All-Flash Storage system is capable as storage for your database system.