Connecting to a PostgreSQL directly is the easiest way. But sometimes, you need a Connection Pool. This is how you can use PgBouncer in Docker Compose.

Connecting to a PostgreSQL directly is the easiest way. But sometimes, you need a Connection Pool. This is how you can use PgBouncer in Docker Compose.

Patching your Oracle systems is essential for a stable, secure and up-to-date environment. Oracle recommends to patch out-of-place, which means that you just add another software home and switch to it. But in many environments, traditional (in-place) patching is still needed. So the software needs to be stopped, the patch

Many years ago, before Smartphones were available and affordable, I needed to have something electronical to manage my calendar and appointments. One of these devices was an HP/Compaq iPAQ 3630 - the one with the lowest specs in the 3600 family: * 206 MHz Intel StrongARM * 32 MB RAM * Slot

Using a standby database is a good way to increase availability and redundancy to an Oracle database. Switching over the database to another host and/or data center also helps to decrease outages for patching. Best practise for a database installation is to always have Grid Infrastructure (GI) installed. Sure

The Palm m100 was one of my first handheld devices. This is what I did with it...

Installing Oracle ASR on SuSE Linux 15 isn't as straight forward as doing the same on Oracle Linux. Here is how to get it done...

Are you annoyed by randomly created Oracle Home names? Here's how to change them to something more informative!

I'll show how to access MySQL databases from Oracle

I'll show how to access PostgreSQL databases from Oracle

Zum 40. Jubiläum von „Zurück in die Zukunft“ feiert Casio Vintage die legendäre Taschenrechner-Uhr mit einem liebevoll gestalteten Sammlermodell.

This is how I update my PostgreSQL instances to 18 using Docker Compose and PgAutoUpgrade

Some time ago, I wrote about Valkey as an alternative for Redis (see here). And in fact, many companies are using it in production. But installing Valkey in Docker or on a server isn't enough, as there should be any mechanism for high availability. So I'll give a short info

In my job, I have to connect to many different servers. Fortunately, most of them are running Linux. So I connect to them, do whatever I have to do, and close the connection. But sometimes, a terminal window isn't enough, because * I'd like to see what happens in a log

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