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FreeBSD basics – 5 – Providing services using Jails

This post builds on top of the previous post in which we’ve created a simple thin Jail. The goal of this post is, to put a bit of automation around this and to provide a simple(…)

FreeBSD basics – 4 – Jails

Now that we know how to get started with FreeBSD, how to manage users and groups, and how to work with services, we’ll look a bit into(…)

Convert Single Instance database to RAC on an ODA

In this article, I will show you how to convert a SI (Single Instance) database to a RAC database on an ODA using rconfig. Of course this is only possible with the ODA 2-HA model as it comes with a(…)

Save Report to Power BI Report Server: Resolving the ‘Unexpected Error Encountered’

1        Introduction Hello, Readers! Recently, I was tasked with preparing a demo for Power BI Report Server. Everything proceeded smoothly until I reached the step of deploying a report to the server, where I encountered an interesting authentication challenge that(…)

Offloading PostgreSQL Backups to Azure Blob Storage Using PGBackRest, Managed Identity, and SAS Tokens

Introduction One of the nice things with cloud providers is the low costs of their storage. Whenever you want to optimize your long-term backups and push them on Azure, you might face a wall of questions on how to do(…)

Projet : Modélisation d’un Data Warehouse

Contexte : Mon client travail dans le domaine des échanges de marchandises et ressources primaires et son métier repose sur l’utilisation de différents outils informatiques pour faire ses affaires. Dans le but de consolider ses données afin de pouvoir générer(…)

FreeBSD basics – 3 – Services

This is the third post in the series about getting started with FreeBSD. We’ve looked at the first steps here, and users and groups here. Today we’re looking at how FreeBSD handles(…)

FreeBSD basics – 2 – Users & Groups

In the last post, we’ve initially configured FreeBSD so that networking is up and running, additional packages can be installed, and the system was patched to the latest release. In this post we’ll look at how(…)

FreeBSD basics – 1 – The first steps

In case you follow the blogs here, you might have noticed that I got interested in FreeBSD over the last months (or even year(s)). The reasons for this are multiple: FreeBSD development is organized in very(…)

PostgreSQL: Maybe we should give ZFS a chance (3) – testing with an aligned record size

In the last post about PostgreSQL on ZFS the pgbench tests showed, that ZFS was slower for the standard tests compared to ext4 on Debian. A comment to that post made me wonder if changing the ZFS record size(…)