Project GreenThumb Part 2 - The Data Collection

blog.cloudflare.com ⏰ 8 mins

Announcing Cloudflare’s Data Loss Prevention platform

Today, we’re excited to announce that your team can use Cloudflare’s network to build Zero Trust controls over the data ...

blog.cloudflare.com ⏰ 9 mins

Protecting your APIs from abuse and data exfiltration

API traffic is growing fast. Last year alone it grew 300% faster at our edge than web traffic....

Top 10 Malware February 2021

In February 2021, the MS-ISAC observed CryptoWall and Kovter’s return to the Top 10, while Hancitor and Jupyter made the...

cisecurity.org ⏰ 3 mins

ORA-32635: not a single cell reference predicate

By Franck Pachot . I spent 30 minutes to try to understand this error with a query that I’ve run in many environments fo...

blog.dbi-services.com

Key considerations in moving to Graviton2 for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora databases

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora support a multitude of instance types for you to scale...

aws.amazon.com ⏰ 10 mins

Benchmarking PostgreSQL: Overcoming an Unexpected Bottleneck

In my previous blog post, we noted that the PostgreSQL benchmarks were measured in NOPM (New Orders Per Minute) instead ...

enterprisedb.com

Removing SA from Azure SQL Database

One of the recommendations from Microsoft SQL Server is to use Windows authentication. This has been in the docs for yea...

voiceofthedba.com

stevestedman.com ⏰ 6 mins

Possible Causes of Database Corruption

Easy listen – 6 minute video describing possible server corruption scenarios that’s actually happened. Help yourself and...

Using SQLAlchemy with MariaDB Connector/Python: Part 1

Last year we released the new MariaDB Python connector and published a blog post on how to get started using it in your ...

mariadb.com ⏰ 7 mins

blog.dbi-services.com ⏰ 5 mins

Adding nmon to Oracle OSWatcher

nmon (nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux on POWER, x86, x86_64, Mainframe & now ARM (Raspberry Pi))...

What’s new in Kibana 7.12: Manage long-running searches in the background

Version 7.12 of Kibana is available today and with it comes new capabilities designed to help you uncover insights and d...

elastic.co ⏰ 5 mins

Secure containerized environments with updated threat matrix for Kubernetes

Last April, we released the first version of the threat matrix for Kubernetes. It was the first attempt to systematicall...

microsoft.com ⏰ 6 mins

How I fell in love with logs thanks to Grafana Loki

As part of my job as a Senior Solutions Engineer here at Grafana Labs, I tend to pretty easily find ways out of technica...

grafana.com ⏰ 6 mins

Is a Session Analyzer a Good Tool to Simulate Real Traffic?

Starting a long time ago, we wanted to reproduce workload in a non-production environment, and there were different atte...

percona.com

Query Optimization Myths

In this article, we will talk about two query optimization myths and these myths can be changed according to the charact...

sqlshack.com ⏰ 6 mins

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Business and Technical Value of Top Ten Features in Db2 12 for z/OS... Register NOW One of the most valuable resources f...

worldofdb2.com

Partitioning and Parallelism: Seeking Redemption

Yesterday we looked at how parallel scans grab rows from partitioned tables. All of those queries were performing full s...

erikdarlingdata.com

CVE-2020-29488: Changes in How Absolute Paths are Handled in Percona XtraBackup xbstream

Due to CVE-2020-29488, Percona XtraBackup is modifying how xbstream handles absolute paths to prevent malicious file inj...

percona.com

Setting up a Machine Learning environment using R and RStudio

In this article, I am going to introduce a few concepts of how to set up and get started with R and RStudio to perform m...

sqlshack.com ⏰ 6 mins

blog.couchbase.com ⏰ 19 mins

How we implemented Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase

ACID Transactions are a must when you have strict data consistency requirements in your application. The costs of runnin...

Tips and Tricks for Implementing Database Role-Based Access Controls for MariaDB

Ashraf Sharif is System Support Engineer at Severalnines. He was previously involved in hosting world and LAMP stack, wh...

severalnines.com

TiDB Operator Source Code Reading (I): Overview

TiDB Operator is an automatic operation system for TiDB in Kubernetes. As a Kubernetes Operator tailored for TiDB, it is...

pingcap.com ⏰ 5 mins

devopsonline.co.uk ⏰ 12 mins

Migration to Microservices Architectures

As technology is undeniably evolving every day, monolithic systems are becoming too large and difficult to deal with. Ma...

Moving Into Consulting 101

After being laid off by a Great Recession-era mortgage company in 2007, I entered into consulting. I made that switch fr...

sqltact.com ⏰ 6 mins

Filtering SQL Compare to a Schema

One of the things that numerous clients have some to Redgate about is allowing a team of developers to work on a single ...

voiceofthedba.com

blog.crunchydata.com ⏰ 11 mins

Getting Started with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE)

In a previous post, I talked about pg_stat_statements as a tool for helping direct your query optimization efforts. Now ...

Mastering TempDB: Managing TempDB growth

Out-of-control tempdb growth must be managed to keep the server running. Monica Rathbun gives her strategy to handle une...

red-gate.com ⏰ 8 mins

How to setup the OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 on your local machine

At the end we'll retrieve the admin password for logging in to the cluster's console, pick up the host URL, test the dep...

schabell.org

Splunk vs. IBM QRadar: SIEM Head-to-Head

SIEM, the modern tools of which have been in existence for about a dozen years, is an approach to security management th...

eweek.com ⏰ 8 mins

severalnines.com ⏰ 10 mins

Architecting for security: A guide for MySQL

Security is paramount today across the whole of IT. From time to time we hear about ransomware attacks or data leaks tha...

How to restore Always On Availability Group databases

Steps to restore a database from a backup device that was part of an Always On Availability Group, and now needs to be r...

sqlserver-dba.com

enterprisedb.com ⏰ 4 mins

Deployment Made Easy with Ansible

Abstract: This blog is about deploying Postgres and its components at scale using edb-ansible. Ansible makes the deploym...

How to Configure Always ON Availability Groups between Two SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances - Part 1

We had a requirement to setup HA & DR for SQL Server databases to increase availability and protect the data in case of ...

mssqltips.com ⏰ 10 mins

What Is a CI/CD Pipeline?

We explore the various stages in a CI/CD process and why a CI/CD pipeline is essential for your organization to deliver ...

dzone.com ⏰ 9 mins

mydbanotebook.org ⏰ 4 mins

No space left on device

This was the most common cause of calls at might: your cluster ran out of space. Nowadays, we can add storage on the fly...

AWS Relational Database Service (RDS): PostgreSQL in Cloud

Today, we will go into details of Amazon RDS. We also set up a PostgreSQL instance using this service and connect to it ...

dzone.com ⏰ 4 mins

blog.cloudflare.com ⏰ 9 mins

Moving k8s communication to gRPC

Over the past year and a half, Cloudflare has been hard at work moving our back-end services running in our non-edge loc...

Determining actions you can take with Edge and Node tables in SQL Server

One of the interesting things about working with many-to-many relationships in SQL Server with graph tables instead of a...

red-gate.com ⏰ 3 mins

Red Hat Frees Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Not-for-Profit Orgs

Last year, when Red Hat changed the course of its CentOS Linux distribution to be more of an experimental build for clou...

thenewstack.io ⏰ 4 mins

Select Count(*) from DynamoDB Group By with Streams

I have recently been playing around with DynamoDB Streams for a side project. I've learned a few things while I was gett...

dev.to ⏰ 11 mins

20th Mar 2021

Submit Your Abstract for the IDUG EMEA Db2 Tech Conference 2021 !! – The World of DB2

The submission deadline has been extended to March 29, 2021! We are currently accepting abstracts for our EMEA conferenc...

worldofdb2.com

Create an Always On Availability Groups using TSQL

While searching for information on setting up SQL Server Availability Groups, I was surprised most articles show how to ...

mssqltips.com ⏰ 6 mins

CockroachDB ❤️ Open Source

Seven years ago, Spencer Kimball made the first commit to the CockroachDB — an open source project he had started with B...

cockroachlabs.com

Cost-effective disaster recovery for Amazon Aurora databases using AWS Backup

You may have stringent regulatory compliance obligations that require an effective multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) p...

aws.amazon.com ⏰ 5 mins

TiDB on Arm-based Kubernetes Cluster Is 15% Cheaper than x86 with the Same Performance

The following tests compare the performance of TiDB, a MySQL compatible NewSQL database, running on an Arm-based Amazon ...

pingcap.com ⏰ 8 mins

blog.dbi-services.com ⏰ 11 mins

Foreign Keys in MySQL, SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL

. In the NoSQL times, it was common to hear thinks like “SQL is bad”, “joins are bad”, “foreign keys are bad”. Just beca...