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Recreate a Patroni replica using pgBackRest

In my last blog we had a look on how to bootstrap a complete Patroni Cluster from pgBackRest. But there is also the possibility to recreate only one Patroni node using pgBackRest. In this blog we(…)

ODA – HDD manual firmware patching

I recently patched ODAs X7-2-HA and X8-2-HA from version 19.8 to version 19.12 and then 19.16 at one of our customer environment. I faced some HDD firmware that was not patched during storage patching, and I had to manually patched(…)

Azure Networking in comparison with OnPrem Networking

By being freshly certified as an Azure Network Engineer Associate, I thought it could be a good timing to share what I’ve learned about networking in the Azure cloud. I’ve worked for many years with traditional network equipment and I(…)

Patch a SQL Server instance automatically with PowerShell

In my last blog post I explained how to automatically download the last Service Pack and Cumulative Update for all versions of SQL Server.Here I will show you how to patch your SQL Server instances automatically with some cmdlets(…)

Kubernetes: Cloudbees troubleshooting with Cilium

We came across an interesting issue recently in one of our customer’s Kubernetes cluster that worth sharing. We installed Cloudbees in that cluster and everything looked fined with all pods up and running. However we couldn’t connect to the Cloudbees(…)

DevOps.Barcelona 2022 Day 2

Second day of DevOps Barcelona 2022 1st talk by Txema González and Manuel Sánchez: “Zero Trust DevOps” with Azure & Github Actions This session was a good presentation on Zero Trust Architectures with Azure. The implementation use the Azure Zero(…)

ODA : Do You Know The MOVE Table In MySQL DB Repository

By Mouhamadou Diaw During a consulting on a customer, we faced the following issue when trying to delete a dbhome Message:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGO-2470 : Working copy “OraDB19000_home1” is involved in an incomplete move or upgrade operation The(…)

How to Setup Dataguard on PDB Level (DGPDB)

Introduction One of the long requested features in case of Multitenant was the possibility to create and manage a data guard configuration on pdb level. Now with the Release Update 21.6 this was finaly implemented and the name of(…)

PostgreSQL: Dropping a table automatically if another table is dropped

Imagine the following use case: You have a table t1, and based on it’s contents you create another table t2. What you want to achieve is: If table t1 gets dropped, you want to have table t2 to be dropped(…)

Devops.Barcelona 2022 Day 1

A lot of interesting sessions for this first day of Devops Barcelona 2022 1st talk by Kris Buytaert : Over a decade of #devops, what have we learned A good overview of the evolution of DevOps since more than 10(…)