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JDBC Driver Maven dependency list

Introduction Ever wanted to connect to a relational database using Java and didn’t know which JDBC Driver Maven dependency to use? If so, this article is surely going to help you from now on. Oracle Since September 2019, the Oracle JDBC Driver is available on Maven Central. For JDK 10 and 11, use the following Maven dependency: For JDK 8, use the ojdbc8 artifact instead: For more details about the proper version to use, check out the following Maven Central link. MySQL The MySQL Driver is available on Maven Central, so just... Read More

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How to limit the SQL query result set to Top-N rows only

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can limit the SQL query result set to the Top-N rows only. Limiting the SQL result set is very important when the underlying query could end up fetching a very large number of records, which can have a significant impact on application performance. Why limit the number of rows of a SQL query? Fetching more data than necessary is the number one cause of data access performance issues. When a given business use case is developed, the amount of data available... Read More

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SQL ORDER BY RANDOM

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can sort an SQL query result set using an ORDER BY clause that takes a RANDOM function provided by a database-specific function. This is a very handy trick, especially when you want to shuffle a given result set. Note that sorting a large result set using a RANDOM function might turn out to be very slow, so make sure you do that on small result sets. If you have to shuffle a large result set and limit it afterward, then it’s... Read More

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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? We found all the answers you need at the Percona Live event last month, and broke down the insights into the following free trends reports:

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Architecting reliable backup and recovery strategy


I have been managing multiple databases, mostly in Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL server, both on on-premise and cloud. We have faced a lot of challenging issues such as records deleted from a user table, backup file is corrupted, backup file is not compatible, backup files got deleted, backup storage is full and backup is running for long time, etc. When you are facing this issues for the first time, it is surprising to see new kind of issues every day and if you are not good in documentation, repetitive issues will keep occurring and we keep fixing rather than suctioning. If you are facing same challenges, then you need to focus on your backup and recovery strategy.


A well-designed backup and recovery strategy maximizes data availability and minimizes data loss without tolerating business requirement. In this post, we will discuss about the following topics:

  1. Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
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MySQL for Entity Framework

The tutorial guides you through MySQL Database connectivity with Entity Framework
We are facing entity framework database provider compatible with version could not be found for your data connection issue while connecting with MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Problem with MySql.Data.Entity.EF6.dll missing and not able to connect with Entity framework
As per my requirements, the customer wants to migrate MSSQL to MySQL server. So I want to use any version of MySQL, installed with below configurations and achieve the connectivity  1.MySQL Server : 5.6.41
2.MySQL Connector/Net : 6.9.12
3.Entity Framework : 6.2.0
4.Visual Studio : Professional 2017 Configuration steps are below,
1. Download required versions,
MySQL - https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/5.7.html
Visual Studio - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
2. Once downloaded, …

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JDBC Driver Connection URL strings

Introduction Ever wanted to connect to a relational database using Java and didn’t know the URL connection string? Then, this article is surely going to help you from now on. Oracle The JDBC connection properties look as follows: JDBC Driver oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver JDBC Url jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521/orclpdb1 Hibernate Dialect org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle12cDialect And, if you want to connect using a … Continue reading JDBC Driver Connection URL strings →

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Log Buffer #522: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This edition of Log Buffer covers Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and much more.

Cloud:

Introducing managed SSL for Google App Engine

Using Cloud Foundry CUPS to inject Spring Security credentials into a Spring Boot Application

ClusterControl in the Cloud – All Our Resources

Monitoring Amazon Aurora Audit Events with Amazon CloudWatch

Integrating Teradata with Amazon …

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Log Buffer #515: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

You may wish to clone an Oracle Home (for example you have all your databases on a single Oracle Home, but you want to separate Development from Test

Removing Outliers using stddev()

Installing Scala and Apache Spark on a Mac

Introduction to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service – Compute Edition (Part V) – Pig

More on …

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Log Buffer #515: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

You may wish to clone an Oracle Home (for example you have all your databases on a single Oracle Home, but you want to separate Development from Test

Removing Outliers using stddev()

Installing Scala and Apache Spark on a Mac

Introduction to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service – Compute Edition (Part V) – Pig

More on …

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