Category: Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server is an AWS managed database service that simplifies operating and managing Microsoft SQL Server databases. Amazon RDS for SQL Server provides value by handling the provisioning, management, and monitoring of SQL Server databases. Although this operational agility is valuable, data protection and security become even more […]

In a relational database management system, a unique key is a set of one or more attributes (columns) that uniquely identifies each row in a table. It ensures that no two rows in the table can have the same values for the specified attributes. The following are the features of a unique key: Uniqueness – […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2022 for Web, Standard, Enterprise and Developer Editions (via BYOM). You can use SQL Server 2022 features such as accelerated database recovery, intelligent query processing, intelligent performance, monitoring improvements, and resumable online index creations. In addition, SQL Server 2022 has […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for custom and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system (OS) and database (DB) environment. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server automates the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting access to the […]

In this post, I discuss Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ DB cluster configurations for Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances. When you create a Multi-AZ DB cluster, Amazon RDS maintains a primary and two readable standby copies of your data. If there are problems with the primary copy, […]

We’re excited to announce that AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 as a target endpoint. This development simplifies the process of migrating self-managed Db2 workloads to Amazon RDS for Db2, a managed service designed to ease the setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases in […]

Migrating databases from Oracle to either Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL presents a unique challenge when migrating JSON data. Oracle CLOB data type can contain both well-formed and invalid JSON, whereas the PostgreSQL JSON and JSONB data type requires JSON data to be correctly formatted according to […]

The typical migration process for an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL requires both automated and manual procedures. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) can handle the automated duties of schema conversion. For specific database objects that can’t be automatically migrated, the manual duties […]

This is the first post of a two-part series. In this post, we discuss how to migrate SQL Server indexed views to materialized views in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. The second post in this series will walk you through the migration of SQL Server indexed views […]

PostgreSQL is considered one of the top database choices when customers migrate from commercial databases such as Oracle or SQL Server. AWS provides two managed PostgreSQL options: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Moving from Oracle to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition can require […]