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JMeter Debugging

Writing an Apache JMeter scenario is not an easy task. Debugging a scenario is even harder. One might think that JMeter is simply recording some browser actions and that’s it, and you are good to go for a load test.

Test OpenShift 4 at low cost in Azure

If you want to learn and test OpenShift 4 (the last release is 4.14 at this time of writing), you may not want to go straight with the installation of a full cluster. Using the OpenShift Service of a cloud(…)

PosgreSQL + SQL Server = WiltonDB – Part 1 – Installation

I know,  few years ago, it was uncredible to associate SQL Server & PostgreSQL or see Microsoft in the Open source world. 😉 The world changes and we follow it… My colleague Daniel Westermann will enjoy that I write(…)

Easy PDB migration with ODA and DB Systems

Introduction Oracle 23c is not yet available on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), but it should be ready in 2024. As 23c is the next Long Term release, 19c databases will probably migrate to 23c in the coming years. If you(…)

Boost dynamic SQL with Plan Guides

Recently a customer asked me to check why a load process from a banking application has so poor performance.In fact this process is extremely slow, between 40 minutes up to more than one hour to load around 240’000 rows. As(…)

Doc.SERIES – The « User Friendly » ECM solution

There are several Electronic Content Management tools (ECM) on the market that are very powerful in their functionalities but are not always easy to configure or maintain, particularly if the size of your company does not allow for a large(…)

It takes a whole village to…

This blog is – spoiler alert – not about technology. It’s not about the latest coding tweaks or the most efficient use of fancy applications – some of them I don’t even know how to pronounce their names. Instead, I’d(…)

SQL Server Integrated acceleration & offloading

Introduction I was asked by one of my customers to have a look at the SQL Server 2022 Integrated acceleration & offloading feature. The goal of it is to provide a framework for offloading specific SQL Server workload compute to(…)

Cloudbees CD/RO, send and receive parameters with bash / Ansible scripts

Sending a pipeline parameter to a bash or Ansible script is easy, but the reverse is less obvious. In this article, we’ll look at how to return parameters from an Ansible script to a Cloudbees CD/RO job. The easy way(…)

Monitor Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix

In this blog post, we will quickly see what is required to monitor a Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix. Agent Setup Agent setup is not required by MSSQL by ODBC template; thus this step can be skipped. Setup Monitoring Account(…)