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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(…)

Manage SSH public keys with Oracle Key Vault (2/2)

Oracle Key Vault 21.7 introduce the SSH key support, a new type of endpoint(SSH server) and a new wallet type (SSH Wallet).

Manage SSH public keys with Oracle Key Vault (1/2)

Oracle Key Vault 21.7 introduce the SSH key support, a new type of endpoint(SSH server) and a new wallet type (SSH Wallet).

PostgreSQL 17: Reset shared statistics at once with pg_stat_reset_shared()

PostgreSQL comes with several catalog views which expose cluster wide statistics. One of them is the new pg_stats_checkpointer view we’ve talked about previously. To reset some of those statistics there is pg_stat_reset_shared().

Cloudbees CD/RO, Pipelines advanced parameters

Cloudbees CD/RO is a highly flexible tool. You can define your own customized parameter forms for pipelines or procedures.For example, the same parameter form can be adapted according to the users: user-friendly for common users or more permissive for admin(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Play the game

In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In(…)

PostgreSQL 17: New catalog view pg_stat_checkpointer

Up to PostgreSQL 16 checkpointer related statistics are available in pg_stat_bgwriter. As the work of bgwriter and checkpointer has been split into two separate processes back in 2011 for PostgreSQL 9.2 (see 806a2aee3791), it makes sense(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Add questions

In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part,(…)