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Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives – Let’s have a look at AI, Cloud and HeatWave

Yesterday I participated to the Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives in Zurich. It was a good opportunity to learn more about AI, Cloud and HeatWave with the focus on very trendy features of this(…)

M-Files Property Calculator

M-Files is a powerful product in itself, that enables businesses to organize, manage, and track documents efficiently.But we can even make it more powerful by extending the out of the box capabilities with Property Calculator, a really useful tool.

PostgreSQL: Unlogged tables and backups

Recently we faced the following situation and have been asked to analyze the issue: A dump was loaded into a primary instance of PostgreSQL, but the data did not reach the replica. Tables which have been added after the(…)

Starting with PowerShell 7 and parallelization

For the time being Windows PowerShell 5.1 is installed with Windows Server. It means that if you want to use or even test PowerShell 7 you need to install it by your own.To be honest, even if I’m using(…)

pg_mooncake: (another) Columnar storage for PostgreSQL

A very, very long time ago I’ve written a blog about cstore_fdw, which brings columnar storage to PostgreSQL. This is now part of Citus and does not anymore come as a separate extension. While this still can(…)

Updating SUSE/ SLES the right way

We all had that time where we needed to upgrade a ages old system that was running for years without any interruption. This sometimes can be quite tricky and take some time and nerves to do correctly. But since(…)

OpenStack – Deploying the first compute instance

Once you have your OpenStack playground up and running it is time to actually use it. What we want to do today is to create our first compute instance. Before we can do that, we(…)

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard when your standby database has errors or is not in sync(…)

Why Data Pump Fails to Import Scheduler-Programs

Here is the How To of scripting them instead Oracle Data Pump can import simple programs without arguments, but it fails when handling Scheduler-Programs that contain arguments. This has been a persistent issue with no official resolution. Since this(…)

Delphix Data Virtualization and Masking

After successfully completing several customer projects involving Delphix products, Data Virtualization and Data Masking, I decided to set up a complete infrastructure internally to test the combination of both products. Delphix Data Virtualization Creates only a virtual(…)