- Autonomous Database Data Pump through Object Storage: credentials, dump file URIs, parallelism and logsOCI · 11 Nov 2026
- Moving Unity Catalog tables and volumes to a new ADLS storage account on Azure DatabricksDatabricks on Azure · 11 Nov 2026
- Convert external Delta tables to Unity Catalog managed tables with SET MANAGED: prechecks, cutover and rollbackDatabricks on Azure · 10 Nov 2026
- NSG flow logs retire in September 2027: move to VNet flow logs and rewrite your queriesAzure · 5 Nov 2026
- Jobs fail with TABLE_OR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND after upgrading from hive_metastore to Unity Catalog: names, default catalog and access modesDatabricks on Azure · 2 Nov 2026
- PostgreSQL pg_dump and pg_restore cheat sheet: formats, parallel jobs, single tables, roles and the errors you'll hitDatabases · 2 Nov 2026
- Oracle Data Pump cheat sheet: expdp, impdp, remaps, monitoring and the errors you'll hitDatabases · 30 Oct 2026
- Upgrading Chroma without losing your collections: version pinning, backups, compatibility checks and the export-import fallbackAI & GenAI · 28 Oct 2026
- Airflow 2 to 3 upgrade - rehearse on a copy of the metadata database, not in placeData Platform · 27 Oct 2026
- Airflow 3 tasks can't use the metadata database any more - replacing session queries with the REST API clientData Platform · 27 Oct 2026
- Amazon Linux 2 reached end of life on 30 June 2026 - finding AL2 instances and moving EC2 workloads to Amazon Linux 2023AWS · 27 Oct 2026
- Azure OpenAI o1, o3, o3-mini and o4-mini retire on 19 November 2026 - what auto-upgrades, what breaks, and how to migrate provisioned deploymentsAI & GenAI · 27 Oct 2026
- Re-embedding a vector index when the embedding model retires - a zero-downtime switch with dual indexes and a recall checkAI & GenAI · 27 Oct 2026
- OCI custom images - creating, exporting and importing images across regions and tenanciesOCI · 26 Oct 2026
- SQL Server orphaned users after a restore or migration - finding and re-linking them to loginsDatabases · 26 Oct 2026
- Advisory: where to run Oracle Database in the cloud - OCI services, Oracle Database@Azure/AWS, RDS for Oracle or VMsDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Switching off every SQL Agent job for maintenance, then turning back on only the ones that were onDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Azure HDInsight (Spark, Hive, Kafka) to Azure Databricks and managed servicesDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool to Microsoft Fabric WarehouseData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Cloudera/Hortonworks Hadoop to a Databricks lakehouseData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: consolidating a standalone vector database into PostgreSQL with pgvectorAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: from a rule-based FAQ bot to a RAG assistant grounded in your own documentsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: migrating from the Assistants API to the Responses APIAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: move vSphere workloads to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) with HCXOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: moving apps from the public OpenAI API to Azure OpenAI with enterprise controlsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: moving large Oracle databases from AIX or Solaris to Linux with cross-platform transportable tablespacesDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: MySQL from VMs or on-premises to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible ServerDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: MySQL or MariaDB to PostgreSQL with pgloaderDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: MySQL to Aurora MySQL with XtraBackup restore from S3 and binlog replicationDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: NFS file servers to OCI File Storage — design, copy and cutoverOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Oracle to PostgreSQL with Ora2Pg, from assessment to cut-overDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: PostgreSQL on EC2 or on-premises to Aurora PostgreSQLDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: rehost VMware and AWS VMs to OCI Compute with Oracle Cloud MigrationsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: self-managed MongoDB to MongoDB Atlas or Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)Databases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: self-managed PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible ServerDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: self-managed Redis to Azure Managed Redis or Amazon ElastiCacheDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Synapse Spark pools and notebooks to Azure DatabricksDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Teradata or Netezza data warehouse to SnowflakeData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: move a VMware estate to Azure VMware Solution with HCXAzure · 24 Oct 2026
- Transformation: rehost servers to Azure VMs with Azure Migrate (agentless replication)Azure · 24 Oct 2026
- Transformation: rehost VMware and physical servers to AWS with Application Migration Service (MGN)AWS · 24 Oct 2026
- Transformation: self-managed Kubernetes on EC2 to Amazon EKS with KarpenterAWS · 24 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Windows file servers to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with DataSyncAWS · 24 Oct 2026
- Transformation: Windows file servers to Azure Files with Azure File SyncAzure · 24 Oct 2026
- Databricks tenant-to-tenant migration: strategy, scope and approachData Platform · 23 Oct 2026
- SQL Server cloud transformation strategy: choosing between Azure SQL, RDS, VMs and BabelfishDatabases · 23 Oct 2026
- Migrating to a new embedding model without breaking searchAI & GenAI · 22 Oct 2026