Azure

Interacting with OpenShift Local in an Azure VM

In my previous blog I’ve written about the no or low cost solutions to setup an OpenShift cluster to play with. I’ve detailed the installation of OpenShift Local on Azure. OpenShift Local is like a mini cluster that(…)

Test OpenShift 4 at low cost in Azure

If you want to learn and test OpenShift 4 (the last release is 4.14 at this time of writing), you may not want to go straight with the installation of a full cluster. Using the OpenShift Service of a(…)

Sql Konferenz 2023 in Hanau, Germany

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(…)

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

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.

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

Windows Server container on an AKS cluster

A few weeks ago I participated at the dbi services bootcamp. All new employees are gathered for a refreshment of dbi services best practices. This is also an opportunity to ask questions directly to our(…)

Microsoft Flexible Server Compute V5

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(…)

SQLBits 2023 -Day 1-A day with SQL Managed Instance

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(…)

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! (…)