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Getting started with Red Hat Satellite – Installation

This is the start of a series of posts I wanted to write for a long time: Getting started with Red Hat Satellite. Just in case you don't know what it is, this statement from the official Red Hat website(…)

How to migrate Grid Infrastructure from release 12c to release 18c

Oracle Clusterware 18c builds on this innovative technology by further enhancing support for larger multi-cluster environments and improving the overall ease of use. Oracle Clusterware is leveraged in the cloud in order to provide enterprise-class resiliency where required and dynamic(…)

From Oracle to Postgres with the EDB Postgres Migration Portal

EnterpriseDB is a valuable actor in PostgreSQL’s world. In addition to provide support, they also deliver very useful tools to manage easily your Postgres environments. Among these we can mention EDB Enterprise Manager, EDB Backup & Recovery Tool, EDB Failover(…)

Deploy a MySQL Server in Docker containers

We hear about Docker every day. By working on MySQL Server, I am curious to test this platform which makes it possible to create containers independent of the OS to deploy virtualized applications. So let's try to deploy a MySQL(…)

First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

Foglight: Monitoring solution for databases [Part 01]

What is Foglight? Foglight is a solution from Quest which promises to provide visibility into issues affecting the application and end user experience. The solution also helps you to find quickly the root cause in application, database, infrastructure, or network(…)

PDB Snapshot Carousel Oracle 18.3

A new feature with Oracle 18c is the PDB snapshot carousel. As indicated by its name a PDB snapshot is a copy of a PDB at a specific point in time. You have the possibility to create up to eight(…)

A SQLite extension for gawk (part II)

Welcome to part II of a three-part article on extending gawk with a SQLite binding. Part I is here. Part II is followed by(…)

An SQLite extension for gawk (part I)

Quick: what is the most used database management system on our planet ? Oracle ? Wrong. SQL server ? Wrong again ! MySQL ? You’re almost there. It’s SQLite. Surprised ? I must confess that I was too. Actually, SQLite(…)

Adding a timeout in monitoring probes

A few months ago day, as I was writing the documentation for a monitoring probe, I suddenly realized that that probe, along with others I wrote during that time to monitor Documentum installations, had all a big, unexpected flaw. Indeed,(…)