Continue reading “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems – Book Review”First off – It’s worth let you know that Google lets you read this “entire” book online for free on their website. Yes you read it right, you don’t need to buy the book, just click on below link – https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html and start reading!
Azure Data Studio (formerly SQL Operations Studio) is a free Cross-Platform DB management tool for for Windows, macOS and Linux. Azure Data Studio (ADS) initial release was only compatible for SQL Server, however recently Microsoft released a PostgreSQL extension for ADS – so now you can also manage your PostgreSQL instance using ADS. For more details on Azure Data Studio PostgreSQL Extension, refer to my earlier posts
Continue reading “Azure Data Studio – Switching from Management Studio (SSMS) to Azure Data Studio (ADS)”
Azure Data Studio (formerly SQL Operations Studio) is a free Cross-Platform DB management tool for Windows, macOS and Linux. Staying true to their promise of offering a unified data management experience for developers, Microsoft recently released PostgreSQL Extension for Azure Data Studio
Continue reading “Azure Data Studio PostgreSQL Extension – Custom insight dashboard”Azure Data Studio (formerly SQL Operations Studio) is free Cross-Platform DB management tool for for Windows, macOS and Linux. Azure Data Studio was initially only released for managing SQL Server, however with the today’s Microsoft’s announcement , it will now be possible to connect and manage PostgreSQL databases with Azure Data Studio PostgreSQL Extension (Sweet deal!)
Continue reading “Azure Data Studio PostgreSQL Extension – Free data management tool to manage your PostgreSQL databases”
This is Part-III for my series on Postgres Table partitioning. I’ll encourage you to also read Part-I and II on this topic.
Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part III – Partition Elimination”Starting Postgres 10.x and onward, it is now possible to create declarative partitions.
In my previous post ‘postgresql-table-partitioning-part-i-implementation-using-inheritance‘, I discussed about implementing Partitioning in PostgreSQL using ‘Inheritance’. Up until PostgreSQL 9, it was only way to partition tables in PostgreSQL. It was simple to implement, however had some limitations like:
Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part II – Declarative Partitioning”
In earlier PostgreSQL versions, it was not possible to declare table partitions syntactically. Partitioning can be implemented using table inheritance. The inheritance approach involves creating a single parent table and multiple child tables (aka. Partitions) to hold data in each partition range.
In this post, I’ll discuss the implementation of table partitions using inheritance. However before proceeding, let’s first understand why do we need partitioning? Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part I – Implementation Using Inheritance”
psql queries to quickly Identify & resolve database performance problems
As a seasoned data store engineer, I often find myself in situations where a production application is down due to some sort of performance issue and I am being asked “What’s wrong with the database?”. In almost all these situations, the database (along with the DBA) is automatically considered guilty until proven innocent. As a DBA, I need the tools and knowledge to help quickly determine the actual problem, if there is one, because maybe there’s nothing wrong with the database or the database server. My favorite approach to start with data driven performance analysis using PostgreSQL systems catalog
In below post, I am sharing bunch of PostgreSQL system catalog queries that can be used to troubleshoot database engine performance
Continue reading “PostgreSQL-Diagnostic-Queries”Postgres system catalogs are a place where database management system stores schema metadata, such as information about tables and columns, and internal bookkeeping information. PostgreSQL’s system catalogs are regular tables.
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. – George R.R. Martin”
Yes, I admit that I sort of dropped the ball on reading. What was more surprising is that all this while I almost did nothing to correct it. Fortunately sanity prevailed and my wife who herself is a voracious reader and a writer (though her first masterpiece is still in making) help me remind about all the good things I am missing by not reading. So I picked up books again!
This blog is share reviews of whatever little I’ve read and learn from your thoughts.
Continue reading ““Hit Refresh” Book Review – Transforming Microsoft with a growth mindset 📚”
It’s been some time since I’ve blogged, even though I’ve been reading a lot all this while. One of the reason is that I couldn’t find enough compelling topics to write and share. Microsoft has been moving too fast with their SQL Server releases (2012, 2014, 2016….and we’re talking Linux beta right now) and I’ve always been catching up.
However, between all this, something has changed. Due to an ever-growing buzz around Open Source, I haltingly started looking into PostgreSQL. Truth be told, I’m starting from ground zero (so nothing to loose) and will be writing on topics that might sound too simple for some of you, nevertheless you may still find ’em helpful.
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