How to do a MariaDB Restore

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Default Isolation Levels across database systems

Most DBMS systems have a range of isolation levels. Fine line between bugs & deadlocks related to setting isolation levels Read more →

What is the Disk Capacity and Partition Amounts for GPT and MBR

Explain the difference between GPT and MBR for disk initialization on a database server Read more →

Top signs of an inexperienced DBA

Do you know how to identify an inexperienced DBA? Read more →

Chaos engineering and databases

Chaos engineering is about learning NOT breaking production. Read more →

Building Secure and reliable systems

Site Reliability Engineering is the new norm for DBAs. Read more →

How to MySQL restore files from a directory backup to their original location

Some useful information to do a MySQL restore for a point in time recovery Read more →

Explain the difference between one-way trust and two-way trust

Discussing with application owners about extending applications into Cloud Providers Read more →

How to use Database Reliability Engineering to Increase Database availability

An increasing amount of vacancies for database reliability engineers Read more →

How to automatically delete MongoDB documents after a certain time with TTL indexes

A developer asked me if event log data can be cleared from a MongoDB automatically Read more →