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    HammerDB and PostgreSQL- Part I

    There’s a large influx of PostgreSQL databases coming into the market.  It only makes sense to use this robust open-source database for any new project and to migrate those which can to an open-source solution, saving thousands, if not millions of dollars in database licensing costs.  Most of these deployments are as PaaS (Platform as a Service) databases with cloud vendors.  To maintain the ability to scale to meet the needs of so many customers, cloud vendors, in general, limit and throttle individual resources.  Logically, if you’re able to determine what individual resources will require, it’s much easier to control…

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    New SQL Server and Oracle Cloud White Papers on Github!

    I’ve been pretty busy with work and travel, but I finally got an official Silk Github repository to publish a couple new white papers and sizing assessment worksheets for customer access.  These are primarily Oracle and SQL Server to Azure focused white papers, but I will be publishing ones on GCP next, to be followed by AI and other database platforms soon. White Papers The A2Z on Oracle for Azure The A2Z on SQL Server to the Cloud The slides for the session that is part of the research that went into the white paper above can be found here. …