Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . I have posted, a long time ago, about Google Spanner (inserting data and no decimal numeric data types) but many things have changed in this area. There is now a NUMERIC data type and many things have improved in this distributed SQL database, improving a bit the SQL compatibility. gcloud I can use the Cloud Shell, which is very easy – one click fron the console – but here I’m showing…
2 years ago, I proposed a ctypes-based Documentum extension for python, DctmAPI.py. While it did the job, it was quite basic. For example, its select2dict() function, as inferred from its name, returned the documents from a dql query into a list of dictionaries, one per document, all in memory. While this is OK for testing and demonstration purpose, it can potentially put some stress on the available memory; besides, do we really need to hold…
When a customer wanted to take the challenge to migrate an oracle database 9.2.0.6 (the prehistory in the Oracle world) to Oracle 19c using Oracle GodenGate, I saw more problems than add value for different reasons: Oracle 9.2.0.6 database is out of support (final 9.2 patch was Oracle 9.2.0.8). The customer Operating Systems was AIX 7.4 and only Oracle GoldenGate 11.1.1.1.2 for Oracle 9.2 for AIX 5.3 is available on https://edelivery.oracle.com. The Patch 13606038: ORACLE…
In my previous Blog I had wrote about Swiss Cloud Provider: Exoscale. Read the Blog Today we will look little bit deeper in three subjects: Template & Template sharing Scaling up and down instances dbi CentOS 8 & Debian 10 Templates Templating On Exoscale you can create custom Template from you current Instance. Custom Templates can make your daily work easier. We will look also how we can share Templates. Starting with the GUI: 1….
By Franck Pachot . This was initially posted to CERN Database blog on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 where it seems to be lost. Here is a copy thanks to web.archive.org Demo table I create a table for the demo. The CTAS gathers statistics (12c online statistics gathering) with one row and then I insert more rows: 10:33:56 SQL> create table DEMO as select rownum n from dual; Table DEMO created. 10:33:56 SQL> insert into DEMO…
I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of what is possible or not on the ODA.
By Franck Pachot . You may have read about Gradual Password Rollover usage from Mouhamadou Diaw and about some internals from Rodrigo Jorge. But it works only on 21c which is only in the cloud, for the moment, in Autonomous Database and DBaaS (but here I’ve encountered some problems apparently because of a bug when using SQL*Net native encryption). But your production is not yet in 21c anyway. However, here is how you can achieve…
The discussions how and why TDE (Transparent data encryption) should be implemented in PostgreSQL goes back several years. You can have a look at these two more recent threads to get an idea on how much discussion happened around that feature: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS) Re: Internal key management system Finally an essentials part for that infrastructure was committed and I am sure, many people have waited for…
Have you ever asked yourself, how to create a second Patroni PostgreSQL cluster on an existing server using the existing etcd? My first idea was to study the documentation of Patroni, but unfortunately without big success. This post should help to identify the changes you have to do on the hosts to run two parallel Patroni clusters using an existing etcd.
Introduction Have you ever seen an SQL Server instance configured to listen on both “TCP Dynamic Ports” and “TCP (static) Port”? This kind of configuration can be caused by the following scenario: A named instance is installed. By default, it is configured to use dynamic ports. Someone wants to configure the instance to listen to a fixed port and set the “TCP Port” value The “TCP Dynamic Ports” is set to value “0” thinking this…
By Franck Pachot . The title is provocative on purpose because you can read in many places that you should avoid scans, and that Scan operations are less efficient than other operations in DynamoDB. I think that there is a risk, reading those message without understanding what is behind, that people will actually avoid Scans and replace them by something that is even worse. If you want to compare the efficiency of an operation, you…
By Franck Pachot . I have written a lot about SQL Plan Directives that appeared in 12c. They were used by default and, because of some side effects at the time of 12cR1 with legacy applications that were parsing too much, they have been disabled by default in 12cR2. Today, there are probably not used enough because of their bad reputation from those times. But for datawarehouses, they should be the default in my opinion….
