The OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) is a pretty interesting piece of software, and it works quite well out-of-the-box. If you are starting to use the OTDS from scratch (when you have nothing internally), then there isn’t much problem, you can just use what they provide OOTB and that’s fine. But for big companies or if you already have a lot…
I’ve been playing around with 2 applications recently: OpenShift from Red Hat and NeuVector from SUSE. At some point I’ve wondered if I couldn’t play with both at the same time. Read on as I’ll share some tips & tricks I didn’t see anywhere else! The Basics I’m using OpenShift Local which is free to use and I’ve installed it…
Introduction It was a very great pleasure to participate to the Sql Server konferenz 2023 in Hanau, Germany, the 12 and 13 September 2023. I went with my colleague Petar, of the same Microsoft Sql Server team by dbi services, Switzerland. For Microsoft Sql Server fans, this event was really the right place to be. Where is located Hanau First…
Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.
No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore. A snapshot is a backup of a running Elasticsearch cluster, it could be used to: Please note that this blog…
Today I had the chance to move forwar with performance testing and some checks on two Flexible Server – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, one with 8vCPU, 64GB RAM and 512GB Storage (2300 IOPs) and another one with the same vCPU and Memory, but 2TB Storage (7500 IOPs). Microsoft told me that they have replaced the used Linux, from Ubuntu 18.04…
Tuesday 14.03.23 was the first day of SQLBits. This day was dedicated to the workshop, and I chose to follow “A Day with SQL Managed Instance”.During this day, we talked about provisioning, connection and configuration, security, but also data migration and mobility, monitoring, and performance. Last year, Microsoft developers made 42 improvements to the service SQL Managed instance. As you…
Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 06:00 am for us…It’s in our time offset, this time better to wake up! 😉 My schedule for the day: D3B1 – KATMAI – SQL MI on Kubernetes – Intermediate – Dhananjay Mahajan D3B2 – KATMAI – Extent and Page Management in Microsoft SQL Server – Expert – Torsten Strauß D3B3 –…
Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 03:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but better than yesterday. My schedule for the day: D2B1 – HYDRA – Overview of SQL Server 2022 – Intermediate – Bob Ward & Ajay Jagannathan D2B2 – HYDRA- SQL Server 2022 IQP Deep Drive – Advanced – Kate Smith, Derek Wilson &…
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 say: Ledger helps streamline audits, providing cryptographic proof of data integrity to auditors. Ledger is also a protection of the…
This Blog is about the actual status of the development on Microsoft’s side for the Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL. The Flexible Server is announced “GA Ready” at November 30st, after shiftig the GA Raeady date several times. But there are still some open requirements which are “Post GA”. 1. AD Integration => Post GA, promissed Q2 2022. 2. Customer…
This Blog is about some findings on Microsoft’s new Flexible Server offering for PostgreSQL which is in Customer Preview at the moment. Findings about the infrastructure The Microsoft Flexible Server for PostgreSQL is using Ubuntu as OS infrastructure, I think it is worth to be noticed that Microsoft’s new offering is switching from Windows to Linux. postgres=> select version(); version…
