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Introducing Control-M 9.0.21

At a customer, we are preparing an upgrade to Control-M 21. As you know the first step is to have a look on what's new, what's changed, corrected/known issues and of course the compatibility for the new version 9.0.21. This(…)

Oracle Exchange Partition

The Oracle Exchange Partition is a method allowing to : exchange the data segments from a non partitioned table to a partitioned table exchange the data segments from a partitioned table to a non partitioned table. This method is useful(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 4 : final day!

After having fun with my ACE friends on previous day ACE dinner and Oracle CloudWorld party (next pictures might speak by themselves) it was time to be back on sessions and meetings for the last day at Las Vegas. Without(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 3 : More sessions and meetings!

Let's go for my third day in Las Vegas with more Oracle sessions and meetings. Also I was more than surprised this morning to meet for the first time, in the lift of the hotel, Carlos Ortiz, Sr. Principal Product(…)

Meson vs. make: PostgreSQL build and test times

In the last post we’ve looked into how you can build PostgreSQL with Meson instead of the traditional way using configure/make. The reason for this was a thread(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day2 : Sessions begin!

Full day of sessions! I have been able to participate to some really good and great sessions I would like to share with you.

Building PostgreSQL with Meson

Last year, around this time, there started a thread on hackers which was about building PostgreSQL with meson. I didn’t know anything about Meson at this time, and don’t know much more(…)

Oracle Database Row Archiving

In a recent customer project, I was suffering to delete millions of rows from a LOG table. Removing 3 months of data took more than 30 minutes with the best optimization possible. After a while, I remembered that a very(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 1 : Arriving in Las Vegas

What a chance for me to be able to participate to this great event! First of all I would like to thank dbi management to have given me the chance to go there and to participate to it. Las Vegas(…)

Kubernetes: MetalLB in-depth

By working on a project for one of our customer, I have investigated how MetalLB works in details. This Kubernetes cluster is on-premises only and uses Nginx Ingress Controller for processing incoming L7 and L4 traffic. If you(…)