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MongoDB: Identify a field type

Introduction Whereas I wanted to perform a quick demo to show some MongoDB useful command to mass update some fields (Increment),I had a MongoDB error: “Cannot increment with a non-numeric argument” I guess the message is explicit: I can’t update(…)

Kubernetes CoreDNS in depth

You know that CoreDNS is one of the core component of Kubernetes. You may also know that the CoreDNS pod is up and running only after the Container Network Interface (CNI) has been installed in your(…)

MongoDB: MongoDB.local Frankfurt Event

Hi everybody Today I will give you a feedback about ab Event organized by MongoDB: The MongoDB.local event Introduction: Last week, I made a trip to Frankfurt to attend a special event made by MongoDB, I learn a lot of(…)

Swiss Cloud Native day landed at the Gurten!

On the 21st of September this year, we attended the Swiss Cloud Native Day. I was accompanied by two of my colleagues, Arnaud Berbier and Christoph Bernhard. This event took place for the third time, and this year, it(…)

Sql Konferenz 2023 in Hanau, Germany

Introduction It was a very great pleasure to participate to the Sql Server konferenz 2023 in Hanau, Germany, the 12 and 13 September 2023. I went with my colleague Petar, of the same Microsoft Sql Server team by dbi services,(…)

ODA X10: the new Oracle Database Appliances are already there

Introduction ODA X8-2 series was sold for 3 years, and I would have expected X9-2 series to be on the market for 2-3 years, but I was wrong. ODA X10 series has just been announced. Maybe Oracle has a different(…)

Declaring environments in GitLab

Why do I need to declare environments in GitLab ? To track deployed versions on each environment To control deployment on environments (e.g. add an approval to deploy production) Add environment-related variables An environment can be linked to a pipeline(…)

Managing transaction priority in Oracle 23c

Introduction Out of the 300 features encapsulated in the new Oracle 23c database, I’ve chosen to write during the Oracle CloudWord a brief blog post about a feature that particularly caught my attention: Automatic Transaction Rollback. Starting from version 23c,(…)

Things you can, but probably shouldn’t do in PostgreSQL: Tables in tables, types in types, and arrays on top

PostgreSQL comes with a lot of flexibility for defining new data types, defining tables and defining arrays over data types. You can make that as complex as you want, which does not mean that you should do it. Somehow you(…)

Larry Ellison – Oracle’s Vision for the future

Generative AI changes everything Larry Ellison kicked off his keynote by delving into Artificial Intelligence, particularly focusing on ChatGPT. The phrase is sure to become famous “About a year ago OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT 3.5 and much to the shock of(…)