Tag: databases

How I Finished a Recovery From an Active Duplicate After Facing Errors ORA-19909 and ORA-01110

The other day I was doing a database cloning in 11.2.0.4 from an active duplicate, and got the following error: ORA-19909: datafile 1 belongs to an orphan incarnation and ORA-01110: data file 1. This post explains how I solved these... Read More >

DBAs and the Cloud: Evolving Roles and New Challenges

Do businesses have the right skills and expertise internally to take full advantage of both the tactical and strategic benefits of the cloud? To help you determine what skills are needed on your team, we’ve developed a list of 5 key skills of modern DBAs in the era of cloud. And for a complete picture of what cloud means for your DBA team, Warner Chaves, one of Pythian’s principal consultants, has written a white paper outlining how database management is different in the cloud, and the key skills the modern DBA must have.

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Getting started with Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Finally Cloud SQL for SQL Server is now available in beta. Announced at Google Next ‘19, Cloud SQL Server is a managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your SQL Server databases on…

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Strategies for maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Pythian specializes in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for enterprise applications. Our customers call us when they are ready to decompose their monolithic codebases and we help them implement containerized microservices and speed up deployment. When we take on…

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