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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(…)

Foglight

As many Oracle Database Administrators, I am a regular user of Oracle Enterprise Manager in order to monitor or administer my client’s databases. I am lucky because most of them have the diagnostic pack and the tuning pack :=). But(…)

First immersion in the Docker Conference EU 2018

In short, a very interesting event for both Devs and Ops. Every day was organized around workshops, hands-on-labs sessions and Hallway tracks. My colleague Mehdi Bada and I tried to attend as much sessions as possible but obviously it was(…)

PostgreSQL : Get my database server name

By Mouhamadou Diaw I was looking for a build-in function to get the hostname of the server hosting my PostgreSQL cluster. But seems that there is no build-in function. Looking in the extensions, I find the extension hostname which(…)

PostgreSQL 12 : New option –socketdir for pg_upgrade

By Mouhamadou Diaw PostgreSQL 12 is under development but tests can be done. Steps to install this version can be found in this dbi blog . Many thanks to Daniel. While reading the documentation I(…)

DockerCon18 Barcelona – Day 3

Wednesday was the last day of the DockerCon18 Europe. Like the previous day, we started the journey by a keynote of 2 hours, more oriented “Docker Community”, the core message of the keynote, the community is one of the pillars of(…)

DockerCon18 Barcelona – Day 2

Tuesday was the second day in Barcelona for the DockerCon18. We attend the first general session in the morning. It was a mix of presentations, live demos and the participation of Docker big customer in EMEA such as Société Général in(…)