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M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2025 – Day 3
The last day of the M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2025 was dedicated to M-Files partners only. Throughout the day, M-Files shared partner-specific information and hot news. Below is a summary of...
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2025.pgconf.de recap
( note: I am writing this as member of the pgconf.de organization team, and not as a dbi services employee ) After almost half a year of planning and preparation PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2025...
View ArticleAPEX Connect 2025 (Day 2)
This year I can unfortunately only attend APEX Connect for 2 days, starting on Day 2 of the conference. Conference is hosted in the famous EuropaPark.The Day has started with the traditional 5K run...
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APEX Connect 2025 (Day 3)
After the “Welcome 3rd Day APEX Connect, DOAG e.V.”, and the very entertaining Keynote “Trouble in the Old Republic” by Samuel Nitsche, I decided to attend presentations on following topics:– 23ai –...
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PostgreSQL 17-18 major upgrade – blue-green migration with minimal downtime
As PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 has been released (link) and is packed with lots of cool features like improved IO on reads for example, I wanted to test out the new pg_createsubscriber and pg_upgrade options...
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SQL Server 2025 Public Preview and SSMS 21 now available
This is a short blog post to share that the SQL Server 2025 public preview is now available for download. At the same time, SSMS 21 has also been released and is now generally available. The LinkedIn...
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SQLDay 2025 – Wrocław – Workshops
I had the chance to attend SQLDay 2025 in Wrocław, one of the largest Microsoft Data Platform conferences in Central Europe. The event gathers a wide range of professionals, from database...
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SQLDay 2025 – Wrocław – Sessions
After a packed workshop day, the SQLDay conference officially kicked off on Tuesday with a series of sessions covering cloud, DevOps, Microsoft Fabric, AI, and more. Here is a short overview of the...
View ArticleDifferent types of Oracle wallets
In this blog post I will explain the different types of Oracle wallet with the auto_login feature. What is an Oracle Wallet An Oracle wallet is used to store certificates for Listeners with https...
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SQL Server 2025 – Standard Developer edition
Introduction The arrival of SQL Server 2025 introduces the Standard Developer edition, allowing companies to deploy across all development, quality and testing environments using an edition equivalent...
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Using dlt to get data from Db2 to PostgreSQL
For a recent project at one of our customers we needed to get data from a Db2 database into PostgreSQL. The first solution we thought of was the foreign data wrapper for Db2. This is usually easy to...
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SQL Server 2025 – ZSTD – A new compression algorithm for backups
Introduction SQL Server 2025 introduces a new algorithm for backup compression: ZSTD. As a result, SQL Server 2025 now offers three solutions for backup compression: MS_XPRESS QAT ZSTD In this blog,...
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Ansible: reduce output in loops – or replace loops
Reduce the output If you do a loop in Ansible, it always prints the item variable for each loop. “item” is the current list element. If you are looping over a list with small values, then the output...
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SQL Server 2025 – Backups to secondary replicas of an availability group
Backup operations can increase significantly I/O and even CPU utilization when we use backup compression. To avoid using resources on primary replica, offloading backups to a synchronized or...
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SQL Server 2025 – AG Commit Time
SQL Server 2025 preview has been publicly available for a week now: you can find all the details in this blog “SQL Server 2025 Public Preview and SSMS 21 now available“.In this blog, I want to make an...
View ArticleOptimize materialization of Exadata PDB sparse clones
Well, this blog is unfortunately reserved to DBA folk running Oracle engineered systems #Exadata, #ExaCC, #ExaCS and Oracle Multitenant database (aka. CDB) architecture.One of our #ExaCC customer has...
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Random permission denied when backing up SQL Server databases to AWS Storage...
Before addressing the issue of backup size reduction with compression enabled, let me provide some context. When SQL Server is hosted on AWS EC2 instances, you’ll need to manage the backup strategy...
View ArticleGuidance for a SQL Server backup strategy in AWS EC2
INTRODUCTION S3 storage is the most resilient and available service in AWS: is a trusted service for storing backups over the long term. From a Windows Server machine, in AWS EC2 or elsewhere, the...
View ArticleExaCC/CS: modify database parameters in batch mode using dbaascli
This post briefly describes how to use a JSON responseFIle to modify (container) database parameters on Oracle Cloud ExaCC/ExaCS service. What are our options with dbaascli? Well, we can simply go...
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Oracle DMK release 2.2.0 new features / Windows support.
DMK is a Database Management Kit that can be used in various database environments. It simplifies command-line tasks for Databases Administrator on Unix and Windows systems. It supports multiple...
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