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PostgreSQL 11 : Procedures are coming

By Mouhamadou Diaw Reading about new features about future version PostgreSQL 11. I see that procedures will be implemented. Why is it so important? Until now only functions are available in PostgtreSQL. Of course a function is a procedure that(…)

Installing MAMP to play with PHP, MySQL and OpenFlights

By Franck Pachot . You may wonder what I'm doing with those technologies that are completely different from what I usually do. I'll detail in a future blog post but the idea is giving a short introduction to databases to(…)

SQLcl connect target depends on previous connection

By Franck Pachot . I thought it was a bug for two reasons: first, because I don't like that my connect destination depends on the context, and then because it is a different behavior than in SQL*Plus. But finally, it(…)

Patching ODA lite to 12.2.1.3.0

Here is the latest patch for your ODA and it seems that Oracle documentation for this patch is not exactly the procedure you’ll have to follow to successfully patch your appliance. I recently updated X6-2M and X6-2L to this latest(…)

Introducing SQL Server on Kubernetes

After spending some times with Docker Swarm let’s introduce SQL Server on Kubernetes (aka K8s). Why another container orchestrator? Well, because Microsoft gives a strong focus on Kubernetes in their documentation and their events and because K8s is probably one(…)

An awk filter to truncate or wrap around tabular output

In my previous blog “idql and its column output”, see link here, I provided a small awk filter to reflow the idql output’s columns by wrapping their content around. Later I came of thinking that it could be useful(…)

Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, part II

This is part II of the article “Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk”. You can find Part I here Before we can test the extension, we need a(…)

Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, part I

Recently, I was searching my NAS for some files which, to end this intolerable suspense, I did not find but on the other hand I did stumbled across a couple of interesting dmawk scripts I wrote for on customer more(…)

OpenShift on my Windows 10 laptop with MiniShift

By Franck Pachot . If you want to play with OpenShift on your laptop, you can, in a Virtual Machine. I have VirtualBox installed on my laptop. I'll install Minishift here, which will create the VM to run OpenShift with(…)

EDB Failover Manager in EDB containers in Minishift/OpenShift – Failovers

This blog refers to an older version of EDB's Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. In the last post we had a look at the basic configuration of EDB EFM and confirmed that(…)