This post is about an issue I ran into when trying to use pgbouncer in front of Yugabyte YSQL, the postgres layer yugabyte reuses for handling relational data. pgbouncer: https://www.pgbouncer.org yugabyte: https://www.yugabyte.com postgres: https://www.postgresql.org The case for pgbouncer. Pgbouncer is a connectionpool for postgres databases. It’s a process sitting in between the client and the …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
I am excited to announce that I have accepted a role at Yugabyte as ‘developer advocate’. It’s not easy to leave the talented group of people that is Enkitec, of which many of them I call friends. In fact, the change is much bigger since Yugabyte is a database outside of the Oracle ecosystem, in …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This post is about a fully documented but easy to miss feature of vagrant, which is the evaluation of the Vagrantfiles when a vagrant ‘box’ is started. As you can see, I wrote ‘Vagrantfiles’, which is plural. I (very naively) thought that the Vagrantfile in the directory where you want to start the ‘box’ determines …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blog is about the oracle database wait event ‘reliable message’. It should be noted that normally, this should not be a prominent wait, and if it does so, the most logical cause would be something that is not working as it should, either by oversubscribing something or simply because of a bug. The reliable …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
Hopefully I got your interest by the weird name of this blogpost. This blogpost is about sensible usage of an Oracle database. Probably, there are a lot of blog posts like this, but I need to get this off my chest. A quote any starwars fan would recognise is ‘I sense a disturbance in the …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 11.2.0.4 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives them the ability to assess if the PSU impacts anything. Functions This is a poor, yet one of the only ways, to …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 12.1.0.2 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives them the ability to assess if the PSU impacts anything. Functions This is a poor, yet one of the only ways, to …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blogpost is about how the oracle database executable created or changed during installation and patching. I take linux for the examples, because that is the version that I am almost uniquely working with. I think the linux operating is where the vast majority of linux installations are installed on, and therefore an explanation with …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 12.2.0.1 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives them the ability to assess if the PSU impacts anything. Functions This is a poor, yet one of the only ways to …Read More| Frits Hoogland Weblog
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 18 RU 11 (july 2020) and RU 12 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives…| Frits Hoogland Weblog