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SQL Konferenz 2023 in Hanau – Meet Tame, the data monster

19.09.2023 by Petar Prljevic

After 2 years, or even 3 years? The organizers could not agree, the SQL Conference took place again in Hanau. 73 speakers have taught us in over 80 sessions with their experience as well as knowledge new. There were incredibly(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Adapt Zabbix to Your Needs

19.09.2023 by Olivier Spiesser

Zabbix comes with an long list of smart and customizable templates (more than 270). In this blog post, I will explain how to customize these templates and adapt them to your environment’s needs. Macro The first level of customization is(…)

Ansible

Ansible automates roadshow 2023

18.09.2023 by Chay Te

I attended this tour from Red Hat to promote automation at Ansible automates roadshow with my colleague Arnaud Berbier. You’ll find his review of the journey here) in Geneva. It was the third date from their tour. In case(…)

Oracle

Oracle to the rescue of MGM with SQL Firewall?

18.09.2023 by Grégory Steulet

Introduction It is true that it’s a somewhat daring title, and it’s unlikely that SQL firewall has changed anything about the attack that several casinos in Las Vegas suffered last week. However, the opportunity was too good to pass(…)

NoSQL

MongoDB: How to translate SQL to MongoDB commands

17.09.2023 by Nabil Saoual

Introduction Hi everybody If you work with databases, you will be familiar with the two main philosophies used in this domain: The SQL philosophy (RDBMS) and, of course, NoSQL databases.Some examples of SQL databases are Oracle and Postgres, while Nosql(…)

Ansible

Ansible Automates – Event Driven & Lightspeed

15.09.2023 by Arnaud Berbier

It was a pleasure to attend the Ansible Automates Roadshow in Geneva this year with my colleague Chay Te. There were several topics and sessions covered during the full day. It was a learning opportunity about the vision and strategy(…)

Oracle

Las Vegas, from sin city to green city?

14.09.2023 by Grégory Steulet

Introduction Oracle CloudWorld 2023 will start next week in Las Vegas, and I’m happy to participate in this worldwide event. As a Swiss citizen, when I think of Las Vegas, the first image that comes to my mind is that(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

No more snapshot too old in PostgreSQL 17

08.09.2023 by Daniel Westermann

Currently PostgreSQL has a feature which is called snapshot too old. While each release of PostgreSQL comes with a bunch of new features, sometimes features also get removed. Starting with PostgreSQL 17 there will be most likely no more “snapshot(…)

Database management

Do we need DBAs in 2023?

08.09.2023 by Adrien Obernesser

Introduction : Over the past months, people asked me more and more questions about the DBA role and the underlying question was often: Are we witnessing the end of the DBA role in IT? My first answer, after a big(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

How to code better?

07.09.2023 by Casimir Schmid

Sysadmins are traditionally more operators than developers, they code mainly scripts for automation reasons (shell scripts, Ansible, Terraform, aso). In addition, they can find themselves in situations where they need to analyse code or even decompile programs. Some sysadmins lack(…)