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Rebuilt index on increasing values after deletes?

By Franck Pachot . Yesterday while giving our Oracle tuning workshop I discussed with the customer about a job they have that rebuilds indexes every Sunday. Except in very rare cases Oracle indexes are maintained so that free(…)

the fastest way to load 1m rows in postgresql

There have been several posts on how to load 1m rows into a database in the last days: Variations on 1M rows insert (1): bulk insert Variations on 1M rows(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (4) – setting up the monitoring server

If you followed the first, second and the third post the current ppas infrastructure consists of a primary database, a hot standby database and a backup and recovery server. Now we will add(…)

When tempdb database may cause indirect issues

A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting discussion with one of my friend that faced a weird issue with a SQL Server instance that lacked worker threads. Because I can’t use his own information I decided to reproduce(…)

Understand the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes

I guess you all already know what a lifecycle is. We born, we live and we die… In fact, it’s exactly the same for Aflresco Nodes! Well, at least from an end user point of view. But what is really(…)

In-Memory OLTP: Hash and Range indexes

Since SQL Server 2014 CTP2, Microsoft has introduced a new kind of index which is the Range index. We have now two ways for indexing an In-Memory table: using either an Hash index or a Range index. These two indexes(…)

Get the main Administration Information from SQL Server with PowerShell

In my previous blog Get SQL Server services with PowerShell, I presented you the first step of the SQL Server administration through an automated process. This blog is a follow-up of the previous one, and it will focus(…)

Get SQL Server services with PowerShell

SQL Server Configuration Manager and SQL Server Management Studio are the main tools to administrate the components of SQL Server. They are very convenient to use and pretty complete. But as soon as you wish an automated process, these(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (3) – setting up a hot standby server

So, we have a ppas 94 database up and running and we have a backup server for backing up and restoring the database. Now it is time to additionally protect the database by setting(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (2) – setting up a backup and recovery server

The first post in this series explained how to get ppas installed on a linux system. Now that the database cluster is up and running we should take care immediately about backup and recovery. For this I’ll(…)