Category: RDS
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Babelfish for PostgreSQL, what the heck is that?
A short answer is: Babelfish is an extension for PostgreSQL, that allows your SQL Server applications to speak to PostgreSQL in their native language. The next question you probably have is: “Why would I ever want my applications to do that?” And it’s a valid question, to which the answer would be, to modernize your…
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Database restore performance oddities of SQL Server RDS
One of the things I’ve learned over the years is, that sometimes the performance in cloud platforms can be unpredictable and you always need to expect the unexpected. Most of the times these issues are just minor annoyances, but they can certainly be confusing the first time you run into any of them. A while…
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Comparing SQL Server deployment options between Azure and AWS
Lately I’ve been spending lot of time outside my natural habitat, Azure, and I’ve entered the AWS frontier. Because of this I decided to write down some of my experiences about how the SQL Server deployments between these two cloud platforms compare to each other. AWS has been around longer than Azure by few years…