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Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service

In a previous blog I demonstrated how to migrate an Oracle database from AWS to Oracle OCI using Data Guard. But what if you want to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, but don’t have a direct connection between the(…)

Unplug/Plug PDB in TDE Environment

By Mouhamadou Diaw In an oracle environment with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) the transfer of PDB may require additional steps. In this blog we will see some steps which may be required when doing Unplug and Plug  of pluggable(…)

Why you should consider keeping your ODA more than 5 years

ODA is a long-lifetime platform!(…)

Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based on index fragmentation – password less – azure managed identity

How do you check and rebuild your indexes for Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool? That question is getting even more interesting if you have only Private Endpoint enabled to connect to the MSSQL DB.  Lets get started!  Requirements Azure(…)

Move SQL Server database files to different folders with PowerShell

In my previous post, I explained how to move SQL Server databases files programmatically by leveraging the high availability of an Availability Group (AG).But when you can afford to have a database unavailable for a short time, and if(…)

Control-M/EM: Order a job with the “hold” option always on

Introduction Hello everyone, as a Control-M user and job creator you will have to work on the planning domain and perform many tasks on jobs, from defining them to testing them and finally ordering them on the monitoring domain How(…)

Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, Status March 2023

As many know about a year ago I wrote some critical posts about Microsofts Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, now it is time to take a look again. At first, many promised functions where delivered with a latency of about one(…)

Starting PostgreSQL logical replication for some tables based on a dump

Recently at a customer we faced a somehow strange issue: We’ve setup logical replication from a public cloud managed PostgreSQL service to a PostgreSQL instance on a VM hosted by the same public cloud provider. For most of the tables(…)

Move secondary database files in SQL Server AG with PowerShell

For some circumstances, you may want to move data and log files for a database to a different location.Usually, this operation has to be made offline. But with an Availability Group (AG) environment, it is possible to choose an approach(…)

Estimate the Downtime for an Offline MS SQL Migration: On-Premise to Azure SQL Database

As you want to migrate your database workload to the Azure Cloud, you must test different aspects of the migration. An important factor for an offline migration is to estimate the duration of the migration process, so the service owner(…)