Starting PostgreSQL logical replication for some tables based on a dump
Recently at a customer we faced a somehow strange issue: We’ve setup logical replication from a public cloud managed PostgreSQL service to a PostgreSQL instance on a VM hosted by the same public cloud...
View ArticleFlexible Server for PostgreSQL, Status March 2023
As many know about a year ago I wrote some critical posts about Microsofts Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, now it is time to take a look again. At First, many promised Functions where delivered with a...
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Control-M/EM: Order a job with the “hold” option always on
Introduction Hello everyone, as a Control-M user and job creator you will have to work on the planning domain and perform many tasks on jobs, from defining them to testing them and finally ordering...
View ArticleMove SQL Server database files to different folders with PowerShell
In my previous post, I explained how to move SQL Server databases files programmatically by leveraging the high availability of an Availability Group (AG).But when you can afford to have a database...
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Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based...
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...
View ArticleWhy you should consider keeping your ODA more than 5 years
Introduction Oracle Database Appliance is a great piece of hardware: a vast majority of customers running on ODAs choose again ODAs when it’s time to renew their infrastructure. For sure, with Cloud...
View ArticleGetting the metadata of an unknown record in PostgreSQL
Another real world customer issue: Suppose you pass a query as a parameter into a function in PL/pgSQL.The query gets executed and you want to return the result. This is quite easy to do, so let’s...
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Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service
In a previous blog I demonstrated how to migrate an Oracle database from AWS to Oracle OCI using Data Guard. But what if you want to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, but don’t have a direct connection...
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Elasticsearch – Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM)
In a previous blog, I spoke about snapshot, restore, and briefly about Snapshot Lifecycle Management. In this blog, I will go more in deep in SLM. Snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) is the easiest...
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MongoDB:Backup and restore with mongodump and mongorestore
Introduction: As for Redis , MongoDB has its own backup utility to export and import data.This tool allow you in a single command to backup your database and your collections and then to load them. To...
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Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry
You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how...
View ArticleUsing Admission Controller in Kubernetes
Undoubtedly, Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration, making it necessary to work with extensions that add a layer of security and modularity. So, what exactly are these...
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Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon...
Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the...
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ELK Stack – Filebeat vs Logstash
Filebeat and Logstash are both comprised in ELK Stack, in this blog we will compare both with some use cases. So, you can then take the most appropriate to your case. Introduction Are you using ELK...
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Zabbix from Problem to Remediation
Until now, in my previous blog posts, we did not cover one of the main features of any monitoring platform: Alarming. In Zabbix, it is named triggers. Item and Trigger Trigger is based on an item...
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Logs from Filebeat to Logstash to Elasticsearch -1
In a previous blog, we saw together the difference between Filebeat and Logstash, we said also that both can cooperate together in some cases. In this blog series we will deep into a use case: send...
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Between PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2023 and the Swiss PGDay 2023
The PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2023 is over and it was a success. We had 250 attendees which made this year’s edition of the conference the largest ever. For us the conference already started...
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Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun
Introduction A one-to-one database migration with a technology mixture these days is a common and solvable task as long as experts, tools and infrastructure are ready. But even if all went smoothly...
View ArticleAll about how Docker containers and data are stored on its host
You’ve probably already heard about containers and one of the most popular tool used to create them: Docker. You may wonder how a container stores data on its host, if those data are persistent, if...
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Monitoring Scripts with Zabbix
In a similar manner as in this Prometheus blog, you might want to monitor scripts which are short living or do not fit the pull-model (Server pulling from agent). Thus, it can use the push model...
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