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SHELL SCRIPTING: How to return values from functions in bash scripts

BASH: make function to return arbitrary values, not only numbers(…)

MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure 3rd part (backup and recovery)

Presentation of the Backup Recovery solution provided by Microsoft Azure for Azure Database for MySQL Server(…)

RedHat JBoss EAP 8 is on the Way

As recently published, RedHat planned to release a new JBoss EAP version: Release 8. A beta release is planned in Q2 this year when official release is tentatively planned in first semester 2023. One might(…)

ODA: how to configure ILOM IP without DHCP?

Introduction Once your brand new Oracle Database Appliance is racked and connected to power, the first configuration step is to setup the static IP address on the management console (ILOM). Until ODA X6-2 generation, servers were equipped with a VGA(…)

Exploration of Calico in Minikube

If you are interested to learn Calico locally on your machine, it is possible to use it with Minikube. Minikube is a tool that sets up a Kubernetes environment on your local machine. It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux and(…)

Patching your ODA may enable all cores!

Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is normally(…)

MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure 2nd part (Performance tests)

Azure Database for MySQL Introduction This second blog follows the first blog about deploying MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure. In the first blog, we saw how easy it is to deploy a MySQL server in minutes(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2 points, I will(…)

MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure 1st part (deployment)

Let’s try Azure Database for MySQL Introduction Did you know that you can run MySQL on Microsoft Azure for free for 30 days with a $200 credit? In this first blog I’ll show how to create a MySQL Server and(…)

Configure Oracle DB for using Large Pages on AIX

When it comes to deploying a new Oracle infrastructure, 90% of it is implemented on Linux. This makes sense, because Oracle runs very stable and performant on Linux and it is also Oracle’s own development platform. But since variety makes(…)