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Disabling “alter system” in PostgreSQL?

Last year there started an interesting discussion on the PostgreSQL development mailing list: Would it make sense to implement something in PostgreSQL which can be used to disable the “alter system” command even for superusers?(…)

Zabbix Web Monitoring

Zabbix allows to create complex web monitoring scenario and gather metrics about it. In this blog post, we will see how to assess that we are able to login to M-Files web application and, to not(…)

OCI – Recover lost SSH access to an Ubuntu instance

Getting started in the cloud is pretty easy but things can get a little messy pretty quickly. A few weeks ago, I faced a case where I suddenly lost the SSH access to an Ubuntu OCI instance used internally for(…)

How to create a Backup Report in EM Cloud Control 13c

This blog describes how to create a backup report in Enterprise Manager 13c.

How to Improve your JMeter Load Testing?

In my previous blog post, I presented you how to create a load testing scenario based on a recorder. While working on it, I faced small problems that required few fixes which were very repetitive (and(…)

Easy business process automation with M-Files

Today with the volume of data managed within a company. It is essential to put in place mechanisms to reduce human activity, avoid duplication and thus improve the reliability of the information. In my last blog I explained(…)

Are You Afraid of the Word DevOps? – Part 2

In my previous blog post, we started to explore how to increase the Time-to-Market (TTM) of your simple application. We improved it and to go further we will now leverage containerization. As in part 1, I(…)

Sending OCI logs to Microsoft Azure Sentinel with OCI Streams

I recently deployed a new logging solution at a customer for their OCI tenancy. They wanted to manage their audit logs using Microsoft Azure Sentinel. The solution I deployed is using OCI Streaming Service to gather all the logs and(…)

Load Test M-Files Server with JMeter

Creating load test scenario on a web application might look easy: Record a scenario Replay it In practice, it is much more complex than that when you want to manage variables elements like usernames, session IDs, and, in case of(…)

PostgreSQL 17: Track skipped rows from COPY in pg_stat_progress_copy

In one of the last posts we’ve looked at how you tell copy to ignore any rows which do not fit into the target table starting with PostgreSQL 17. While this is great, this also hides(…)