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Using Automation to Speed up Release Tests on PostgreSQL
Having a test environment is a must in all companies. It could be necessary for testing changes or new releases of the application, or even for testing your existing application with a new PostgreSQL...
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Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PXC/MariaDB Galera Cluster
Upgrading your database for Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Galera Cluster can be challenging, especially for a production-based environment. You cannot afford to...
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Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server
Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this....
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Automating Security Audits for MySQL
Taking care of the security of your MySQL instances is a near-daily task of almost every MySQL DBA. Today, we will look into how you should go about automating security audits for MySQL.Why Automate...
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Announcing CCX Database as a Service from Severalnines
We at Severalnines are thrilled to announce the release of CCX, our brand new database as a service (DBaaS) offering! It’s a fully managed service built atop the powerful ClusterControl automated...
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Database Automation Best Practices in the Healthcare Industry
Database management at scale can’t be done without proper automation techniques. Long gone are the days when database administrators were naming their database servers, spend days tuning and tweaking...
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Automate Database Configuration Check
Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and...
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MySQL Database Deployment Automation
Automation is in vogue these days. Technology evolves quickly, and more people are contributing to existing available third party automation software platforms. As the season of fast-paced deployments,...
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Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PostgreSQL
Testing is a time-consuming task, but it is a must before any upgrade process on any technology. Depending on the type of upgrade, it could be harder or easier, but it is always necessary if you want...
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MongoDB Database Deployment Automation
Organizations are making use of infrastructure in the cloud because it offers speed, flexibility, and scalability. You can imagine if we can spin up a new database instance with just a click, and it...
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Database Automation Best Practices in FinTech
Automation equals speed - there is no discussion about it. Automation also increases reliability and reduces the error rate. Those feats are important in pretty much every kind of industry, but they...
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Automate Database Schema Object Check
Monitoring your database schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB provides a huge help as it saves time analyzing your database growth, table definition changes, data size, index size, or row size. For...
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Automate Database Health Check
Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we...
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Full Ops Automation of your Hybrid Cloud Database
In a previous blog, we wrote about about the architecture of hybrid cloud databases. Having database instances in different datacenters sounds all good, but how do you manage all that? How do you know...
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New User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2
After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner:What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user...
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Understanding MySQL’s New Heatwave
Data Analytics is important in any company as you can see what happened in the past to be able to make smart decisions or even predict future actions using the existing data.Analyze a huge amount of...
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Best Practices in Scaling Databases: Part 1
All of you have heard about scaling - your architecture should be scalable, you should be able to scale up to meet the demand, so on and so forth. What does it mean when we talk about databases? How...
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Most database management systems have several techniques of securing their data from an outsider or an unauthorized person or application. The techniques prevent your data from being read or copied...
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Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part One
Indexes in MySQL are a very complex beast. We have covered MySQL indexes in the past, but we have never taken a deeper dive into them - we will do that in these series of blog posts. This blog post...
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Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part Two
This blog post should act as the second part in the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the first part in the blog post series about MySQL indexes we have covered quite a lot of things including...
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