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Migrating partitioned Oracle database tables to PostgreSQL
Table partitioning is a useful functionality that most organizations use to store huge data, and it is quite common for users to come across partition…
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PostgreSQL is probably the most advanced database in the open source relational database market. It was first released in 1989, and since then, there have been…
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Amazon AWS upgrades to Postgres with Bucardo
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), allows for quick setup and use of a database system. Despite minimizing many database administration tasks, some issues still exist, one…
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Upgrade PostgreSQL RDS from version 9.x to 12.x using Bucardo
We are using Aurora PostgreSQL RDS clusters as our Database for our Applications. We were using a 9.x version of Aurora PostgreSQL RDS clusters for…
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Using the Oracle 11GR2 database flash cache
Oracle just released a patch which allows you to use the database flash cache on Oracle Enterprise Linux even if you don’t have exadata storage. …
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Find Top Running Processes by Memory and CPU Usage
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There are situations where your server shows unintended behaviors like a slow response from websites, failures with services, inability to start applications, server crashes etc.…
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Oracle Manageability Monitor Process (MMON) Background Process
Oracle Manageability Monitor Process (MMON) Background Process. Performs many tasks related to manageability, including taking Automatic Workload Repository snapshots and performing Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor analysis…
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What is the usecase of dev shm
/dev/shm is a temporary file storage filesystem (see tmpfs) that uses RAM for the storage. It can function as shared memory that facilitates IPC. It is a…
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