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Prepping an Oracle Database for a Cloud Migration
There’s so much I need to get written down these days, but there’s only so many hours in a day and days in a week and I’ve totally failed in this area. Well, I have a little time right now, so going...
View ArticleUUID performance with CockroachDB
Recently, I have been working with customers that have been concerned about the performance of various UUID formats. Other products have various performance characteristics for inserting, generating...
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2020 PASS Summit and the Azure SQL Championship
I barely have enough time to breathe let along blog these days, but lucky for me, I am taking some downtime today, so I can come out here and write!Anyway, since I’m so busy, I volunteered to help...
View ArticleJoin Performance for UUID, STRING, and INTEGER with CockroachDB
overviewTo continue on the UUID performance thread, I was recently asked by a customer how joins perform with various data types. I had not run a specific test, but suspected perform would be driven...
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Why a One-Week Report for AWR Sizing in Azure
It’s not uncommon for different recommended practices to arise in technical sizing and optimization practices. For many, it’s a compromise between most optimal data and ease of access vs. impact on...
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Azure IO Performance for the RDBMS DBA- Part I
With my upcoming session on “Migrating Oracle Workloads to Azure IaaS” this week at PASS Virtual Summit 2020, I wanted to take some time to dig deeper onto the performance side. The last thing you want...
View ArticleScaling CockroachDB key generation… uuid, serial, and sequences
OverviewPrimary keys are critical in any RDBMS in order to ensure the validity of data. Unlike other distributed SQL databases, CockroachDB is notsharded by primary key to distribute the data. Data is...
View ArticleCockroachDB troubleshooting series… define the process
After working with customers for about 18 months now, I am starting a blog series to write up the common issues seen while running CockroachDB. Diagnosis and treatment of issues when running on...
View ArticleMigrating Oracle Exadata Workloads to Azure- Storage Indexes
I’m about simplifying anything for customers as we bring over complex environments into Azure and Oracle databases running on Exadata is a big part of these challenges. Decoupling the database from...
View ArticleOracle DB on Azure with Multitenant Option
By Franck Pachot. If you want to run an Oracle Database in the Microsoft Azure cloud, you will install it yourself on a VM. And then, you can expect the same as when you install it in your premises, in...
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