Category: Technical How-to

Most migrations from on-premises Oracle to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle use EXPDP/IMPDB or Transportable Tablespaces using RMAN. Depending on the size and complexity, migrations are often split at the schema level and table level. In this post, we present a solution to help you identify missing schema objects in the target […]

Company policies usually do not allow database instances to have a public endpoint unless there is a specific business requirement. Although that protects those resources from public access over the internet, it also limits how users can connect to them from their computers. Frequently, database administrators and development teams try to overcome that restriction by […]

Oracle Global Data Services (Oracle GDS) is a specialized service for managing connections in distributed databases within a global environment. It’s designed to provide high availability, scalability, and efficient load balancing across multiple Oracle database instances. Oracle GDS acts as an intermediary layer between application and database tiers, overseeing high availability, optimizing load balancing, and […]

Windows Authentication offers a secure and efficient mechanism for authentication management in Microsoft SQL Server. Many customers use Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure AD) as their identity provider for Windows authentication. With the launch of support to join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to self-managed Active Directory, you can now join your Amazon Relational Database […]

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed, purpose-built time-series database that makes it straightforward to store and analyze trillions of time-series data points per day. Timestream saves you time and cost in managing the lifecycle of time-series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based […]

In this post, we show how you can encrypt an Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition database from an existing unencrypted cluster using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with minimal downtime. Amazon Aurora encrypted DB clusters provide an additional layer of data protection by securing your data from unauthorized access to the underlying storage. You can […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service which provides administrative access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. This allows you to run third-party applications, install drivers or access native features of SQL Server or Windows, while getting the benefits of a managed database. You can also use […]

It is important to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of communication between clients and databases. The deployment of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for this purpose, however, can sometimes face resistance, either due to actual complexities or perceived challenges associated with the specific tools used by individuals or organizations. In this post, we address these concerns […]

Many organizations are often seeking to migrate from their commercial relational databases, such as Oracle, to open-source databases like PostgreSQL. When migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL databases, the most time-consuming and complex part is converting database structures, code, and storage objects such as packages, procedures, functions, and triggers. Converting or modernizing from Oracle to Amazon […]

In the post, Validate database objects post-migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, we explained the manual process to run relevant queries at source and target and match the output to identify the gaps post-migration. Because it’s a tedious job to validate all the available database objects, table […]