Beginning of last week Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for today, the second of October. In the same time, but in a more marketing side, Microsoft announced a SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer, more information here. It looked for me like the good time to do my first installation of SQL Server 2017…
A couple of months ago, I did my first installation of SQL Server on Linux. I wrote about it in this blog post. So now it’s time to start the new year by talking about high availability on Linux with SQL Server vNext. Running standalone instances will be suitable for scenarios but I guess introducing high-availability with critical environments still…
As you certainly know Microsoft announced yesterday the first preview of SQL Server vNext on Linux. Obviously we are far from a final version suitable for production and the list of unsupported features will probably be good indicator of the production maturity over the time. So as many people, I could not wait to do a try of installing SQL…
Ausgangslage Ein Kunde hat mich kürzlich angefragt, wie am effizientesten alle Kernel Tuning Parameter für Oracle bei Red Hat 7 konfiguriert werden können. Daraus habe ich untersucht welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, ausser dem seit langer Zeit bekannten /etc/sysctl.conf. Bei dieser Analyse führt der Weg natürlich über tuned. Dieser Dienst erlaubt es Profile zu definieren welche ein ganzes Set von Kernel Tuningparametern…
Why does the sysctl.conf value for swappiness on Oracle Linux 7.x not survive a reboot For a project I applied the dbi services best practices for Oracle databases. One of these is to adjust the swappiness parameter. We recommend to use a very low for the swappiness value like 10 or even lower to reduce the risk for Linux to begin swapping!…
