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Learn how to use the SQL Server tablediff utility to validate an Amazon RDS for SQL Server read replica against its primary after a replication lag event, detect and classify row-level data mismatches, and apply…
Antananarivo, Madagascar - October 20, 2026 pgCluu PostgreSQL Cluster Utilization pgCluu is a Perl program used to perform a full audit of a PostgreSQL Cluster performances. It is divided in two parts, a collector used…
BackupDrill backs up Supabase Postgres databases to a bucket you own, then restores each backup into a throwaway PostgreSQL instance to check it restores. Most teams find out whether their pg_dump backups work on the…
SafeGrd is a new backup service for PostgreSQL 13 and later that restores every backup on a schedule and checks the row counts. It takes a backup, restores it later into memory or a throwaway database, and counts what…
pgrecon, an Apache-2.0 licensed Oracle to PostgreSQL migration assessment and schema conversion tool, is now public. The current release is 0.7.3. pgrecon works entirely offline. A reviewable, read-only SQL*Plus script…
EDB runs its own revenue reviews, renewals, and executive metrics on the same data and AI platform it sells. This is how that estate is built.
The PostgreSQL RPM repository has supported Amazon Linux 2023 for a while, but until this week it had no GIS packages there: a few weeks ago I removed the AL2023 build of the GIS stack, as the distribution does not ship…
Postgres gives you no way to take back a single statement. When someone runs an UPDATE without its WHERE clause, recovery is a procedure rather than a command. You restore a copy of the database to the moment before the…
A PostgreSQL superuser can read any file on the server, write to it, and run shell commands on the host. That is more than just a powerful database account. It is shell access. This is also why the role your application…
Create replicas with a single command, but master the procedure for replacing a failed primary—that's where things get tricky and installations break. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
arXiv:2610.29005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central obstacle to self-improving agents is the absence of a reliable fitness signal for realistic stateful tasks. We introduce \textsc{VeriEvolve}, an…
Standby lagging on network storage? `recovery_prefetch` lets WAL replay ask the kernel to read pages before it needs them, turning seventeen minutes of… (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
Yesterday, a colleague of mine opened a simple PR. The business needed a region on an existing table, so he added a text column to hold it. Clean, small, ready to review and merge. Database internals? No problem. This…
