Tag: Database

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Run highly available MySQL database clusters in the AWS cloud from as little as $0.70 per node / per hour with the new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) Continuent is pleased to announce the availability of our new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) - the complete continuous operations solution for MySQL database clusters - on the AWS Marketplace! What Is It? The Continuent Tungsten Cluster (AMI) is a complete, fully-integrated, fully-tested MySQL HA, DR and geo-clustering solution on the AWS Marketplace for business-critical MySQL, MariaDB, & Percona Server applications. It includes all of the features and benefits provided by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Edwin Galang. By Edwin Galang, Cloud Solutions Architect at CohesityBy Girish Chanchlani, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIt’s no secret that data is growing at a staggering rate, and the challenge for enterprises is how to manage this growth in a cost-effective manner. According to IDC’s Data Age 2025 whitepaper, published in late 2018, data will grow to 175 ZB by the year 2025, with an annual growth of over 60 percent per year. In addition to managing the data, CIOs are looking for ways to get insights out of the data so their ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Kristian Köhntopp; A question to the internal #DBA channel at work: »Is it possible to change a column type from BIGINT to VARCHAR ? Will the numbers be converted into a string version of the number or will be it a byte-wise transition that will screw the values?«Further asking yielded more information: »The use-case is to have strings, to have UUIDs.« So we have two questions to answer: Is ALTER TABLE t CHANGE COLUMN c lossy? INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT vs. UUID Is ALTER TABLE t CHANGE COLUMN c lossy? ALTER TABLE is not lossy. We can test ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. The FinCEN Files InvestigationThe International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has recently exposed a vast network of industrial-scale money laundering running through Western banks and generally ignored by U.S. regulators – and they used Neo4j to help crack the case wide open.The global investigation, dubbed the FinCEN Files, reveals how money launderers move their dirty money. From drug cartels and corrupt regimes to arms trafficking and other international crimes, these global banks have turned a blind eye – or even straight up refused to stop – as they earn huge profits from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Tuesday, September 22, 2020 is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan civic holiday in the United States celebrating democracy with a mission to create broad awareness of registration opportunities for voters. On National Voter Registration Day and throughout the election cycle, nonprofit civic organizations use the cloud to meet their mission in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. With the support of election administrators, civic organizations encourage voters to verify their registration, register to vote, learn about early voting, find their polling place, request ballots, sign-up for election reminders, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. I have previously written a blog post on the detailed steps involved in enabling PostgreSQL monitoring using PMM. In that post, you could see me talking about the role: pg_monitor that can be granted to monitoring users. The pg_monitor role restricts a monitoring user from accessing user data but only grants access to statistic views needed for monitoring. The following are the simple steps to create a monitoring user for using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). CREATE USER pmm_user WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'secret'; GRANT pg_monitor to pmm_user;CREATE USER pmm_user WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'secret'; GRANT pg_monitor to pmm_user;However, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs, so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. Many thanks to Sujata and Nikhil for owning the Desktop and Service/Mobile blogs! We are planning several other changes to the blog, so stay tuned. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, we will be stopping support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Julia White. As businesses shift priorities to enable remote work, take advantage of cloud innovation, and maximize their existing on-premises investments, relying on an effective multi-cloud, multi-edge hybrid approach is even more important than it has ever been. Since the beginning, Microsoft Azure has always been hybrid by design, providing customers consistency and flexibility in meeting their business needs and empowering them to invent with purpose. This is one of the many reasons that the world’s leading brands trust their businesses to run on Azure. As we expand our Azure hybrid capabilities, we give customers ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. In this tutorial I have an R script that runs every day on heroku. It creates a curve in ggplot2 and posts that picture to twitter. The use case is this: You have a script and it needs to run on a schedule (for instance every day). In 2018 I wrote a small post how to run an R script on heroku.The amazing thing is that the bot I created back then is still running! But I recently got a question about the scheduling, and because I did not really document it that well ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; Deploying WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service: the easy way ! – lefred's blog: tribulations of a MySQL Evangelist During the MDS webinar on how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MDS (slides & video), I briefly explained how to deploy the full architecture on OCI using Resource Manager and Stacks. The Stack for that architecture is now available on my github: https://github.com/lefred/oci-wordpress-mds/releases/tag/0.0.1 To deploy it, it’s very easy. In OCI’s Dashboard, go on “Resource Manager” and then choose “Stacks“: Create a new stack and just drop the stack_wordpress_mds.zip : On the next ... Read More