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Building a Metrics & Alerts as a Service (MaaS) Monitoring Solution Using the InfluxDB Stack

The larger an enterprise becomes, the more systems and applications there are to monitor, and the more scalable its monitoring system has to be to keep up with business growth.

Getting Started with Azure Databricks

As defined by Microsoft, Azure Databricks "... is an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform.

Analyze This: MongoDB and Couchbase Analytics

Comparing analytical query processing in MongoDB and Couchbase. The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. — Richard Hamming The spiral of running the business, analyzing what to change & what to change to, and then changing the business is an eternal one.

Announcing SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, & SQLcl versions 20.2

It’s been 177 days since our last release – version 19.4 at the end of December, 2019! Obviously, much has happened since then. The astute amongst you would have noticed there WAS NOT a version 20.1 release. This was a conscious decision on our part to hit ‘pause’ vs bragging about 20.

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How to connect Python programs to MariaDB

You can use the popular programming language Python to manage data stored in MariaDB. Here is everything you need to know about connecting to MariaDB from Python for retrieving, updating, and inserting information.

Faster, Better, Stronger, InnoDB in MariaDB Server 10.5

InnoDB is the default storage engine for MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB Community Server. While originally based on the MySQL implementation of InnoDB, MariaDB has been diverging from the original for years in order to give MariaDB users a better experience.

Fixing Page Faults in MongoDB

Page faults are a prevalent error that mostly occurs in a large application involving large data. It takes place when MongoDB database reads data from physical memory rather than from virtual memory.

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Db2 12 for z/OS Function Level 507

This month, June 2020, IBM introduced a new function level, FL507, for Db2 12 for z/OS. This is the first new function level this year, and the first since October 2019. The Function Level process was designed to release Db2 functionality using Continuous Delivery (CD) in short, quick bursts.

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Using custom types with Citus & Postgres, from popular hack to transparent feature

Custom types—called user-defined types in the PostgreSQL docs—are a powerful Postgres capability that, just like Postgres extensions, were envisioned from Day One in the original design of Postgres.

Top 7 Reasons Why Security Goes Wrong In A Database System

Today I’m going to talk about my favorite trope, “database security”. When done right, a good security policy not only protects your data but improves performance, system stability, and enhances the development life-cycle.

Running a container in Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) with Docker Desktop Edge

Earlier this month Docker announced our partnership with Microsoft to shorten the developer commute between the desktop and running containers in the cloud.

MongoDB Checkpointing Woes

In my recent post Evaluating MongoDB Under Python TPCC 1000W Workload with MongoDB benchmarks, I showed an average throughput for a prolonged period of time (900sec or 1800sec), and the average throughput tended to smooth and hide problems.

Oracle Cloud basics for begginers

Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world.

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Create a Build with YAML for SQL Change Automation in Azure DevOps

I used to make fun of YAML because I was scared of it. I still make fun of YAML, but I’m not scared of it anymore now that Rob Sewell showed me how to avoid having to write it myself. In this…

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CTEs Aren’t Procedural, Either

I’ve heard many times incorrectly over the years that CTEs somehow materialize data. But a new one to me was that CTEs execute procedurally, and you could use that to influence plan shapes by always doing certain things first.

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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 2 Released!

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the second beta release of PostgreSQL 13 is now available for download. This release contains previews of all features that will be available in the final release of PostgreSQL 13, though some details of the release could change before then.

How to Monitor PostgreSQL 12 Performance with OmniDB – Part 1

OmniDB is an open-source, graphical database management tool developed by 2ndQuadrant, a world-leader in PostgreSQL technologies and services. OmniDB is a browser-based, universal client tool that can manage major database engines like PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, and Oracle.

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Onboarding Enterprises to Couchbase Support

We are delighted to announce the introduction of a brand new training course to assist your Enterprise with Onboarding to Couchbase Support. This free, online offering is designed and delivered by our most experienced Technical Support engineers.

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An Overview to InnoDB Undo Log

As the name indicates, an undo log record contains information about how to undo the recent changes by a transaction. When a transaction writes data, it always makes writes on the tablespace files. InnoDB Undo log stores copy of data that is being modified by any current transaction.

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Webinar - Introduction to Kibana: Best Practices for Log Search and Visualizations

Metricbeat is an extremely easy-to-use, efficient and reliable metric shipper for monitoring your system and the processes...

How to Use SQL Server Coalesce to Work with NULL Values

Whenever you are using T-SQL to develop queries, you will encounter situations where you have to deal with NULL values. No matter how hard you try, you cannot eliminate NULLs.

Monitoring SQL Server with PowerShell Instance Data Collection

To continue the series, this PowerShell monitoring script will collect instance level data for all of SQL Servers that have been registered for this monitoring solution. This module will gather information about the SQL Server instance, such as the version, edition, memory settings and more.

How Istio Is Built to Boost Engineering Efficiency

Aspen Mesh sponsored this post. One of the bright points to emerge in Kubernetes management is how the core capabilities of the Istio service mesh can help make engineering teams more efficient in running multicluster applications.

How to Monitor your Modbus Devices with InfluxDB

We released a new Modbus input plugin in Telegraf 1.14 and in this blog I’d like to tell you more about that plugin and how you can use it.

The Oracle ACE program ♠ what it is not ♠

By Franck Pachot . I had a few questions about the Oracle ACE program recently and I thought about putting some answers there.

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Writing mysqlsh Scripts

The new MySQL Shell or mysqlsh has provisions for loading user plugins in Python or JavaScript that are loaded when the shell starts up. I am just taking my initial steps into this area and wanted to share with you how easy it is to create a plug-in to produce a report.

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Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 2 Best Practices and Guidelines

In the second article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates some ways to design and populate a columnstore index to get even better performance.

Setup ora2pg for Oracle to Postgres Migration

An important part of performing a migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL is selecting the right tool for helping with the conversion between systems. When people ask me how they can get the migration process started, I like to recommend a powerful open source utility called "ora2pg".

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