Blog PostgreSQL and ElephantSQL news and tips

Our new friends in our shared plan-crowd: Simple Spider and Crazy Cat!

2019-01-03 | Elin Vinka

ElephantSQL proudly introduces a 5$ plan and a 10$ plan to our shared plan-crowd!

Huge price cuts on dedicated PostgreSQL plans

2018-12-21-huge-price-cuts-at-elephantsql | Lovisa Johansson

We are cutting all prices on dedicated PostgreSQL plans!

We welcome Blissful Butterfly and Ruthless Rat to the Crowd

2018-12-21 | Lovisa Johansson

A cheaper dedicated option is now available at ElephantSQL, together with a new high-performance plan!

AWS Europe (Stockholm) now supported!

2018-12-14 | Lovisa Johansson

AWS is now in ElephantSQL's home country! We've added the eu-north-1 region.

GCP Finland supported!

2018-12-14 | Elin Vinka

It's now possible to create your PostgreSQL database in Finland. The region, europe-north1, is now supported by ElephantSQL.

Azure Australia supported!

2018-11-29 | Lovisa Johansson

We are today happy to announce that ElephantSQL now is available in Azure Australia!

What's new in PostgreSQL v11

2018-11-26 | Elin Vinka

ElephantSQL has enabled PostgreSQL version 11, take part of the perks and improvements!

IBM Cloud Catalogue

2018-11-23 | Lovisa Johansson

ElephantSQL is available in the IBM Cloud Catalogue!

Databases as a service, DaaS, is fast becoming the preferred way of running databases. The advantages are obvious: scalability, fast deployments, less need for a DBA, no need to buy servers, global access, low cost, and so on.

How Anyone Can Automate Data Reporting: From Spreadsheets To Free Cloud Database (Holistics-ElephantSQL)

2018-09-07 | Evan Tan

This blog show how to build automated reports using scheduled imports of spreadsheets files to an ElephantSQL’s PostgreSQL database.

Google Cloud Stackdriver Logging

2018-08-14 | Mona Dadoun

Check out how to ship your PostgreSQL logs from ElephantSQL dedicated instances to Stackdriver Logging! Stackdriver Logging makes it easy to centralize, search and monitor your log data from any environment. All you need to do...

AWS CloudWatch Logs

2018-08-14 | Mona Dadoun

Check out how to ship your PostgreSQL logs from ElephantSQL dedicated instances to CloudWatch Logs! CloudWatch Logs makes it easy to centralize, search and monitor your log data from any environment. All you need to do...

Terraform provider for ElephantSQL

2018-07-06 | Magnus Landerblom

Manage your ElephantSQL cluster as code with Terraform

Preparing for the GDPR

2018-04-04 | Anna Burman

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is approaching and will set the bar high in regards to protecting the integrity of the individual in the EU. ElephantSQL is currently working with preparing our business for compliance. This post is intended to give our customers an update on our current status in regards to GDPR.

ElephantSQL releases external metrics integration

2018-03-08 | Elin Vinka

The ElephantSQL team are happy to announce that you're now able to ship monitoring data from your dedicated instances to an integrated monitoring service.

Get Alarm-notifications in VictorOps and/or OpsGenie

2018-02-23 | Elin Vinka

Introducing VictorOps and OpsGenie as additional alternatives for receiving alarm notifications from your instance.

Enable CPU, Memory usage and Disk space alarms

2018-02-22 | Elin Vinka

Introducing alarms based on CPU, Memory usage, and disk space for ElephantSQL.

New regions supported in AWS!

2018-02-06 | Lovisa Johansson

We are happy to announce that we new support 3 new regions, EU Paris, AP Seoul and AP Mumbai!

Manage instance access with Access Control List (ACL)

2017-12-20 | Elin Vinka

To further manage and secure your instances, we’ve added the ability for you to set team members permissions with ACL.

Meet the DBA team behind ElephantSQL

2017-12-15 | Elin Vinka

As the year winds down, the team behind ElephantSQL want to take the opportunity to wish you a happy new year! During the past year, we have worked hard to meet our customers' wishes, and we are continually working to improve and simplify the use of ElephantSQL.

ElephantSQL - Your professional DBA in the cloud

2017-10-26 | Lovisa Johansson

ElephantSQL is hosted by PostgreSQL experts with several years of DBA PostgreSQL experience. We provide 24/7 support to all customers on paid plans.

PostgreSQL v10 at ElephantSQL

2017-10-24 | ElephantSQL team

Read about new feature added into v10 of PostgreSQL

Part 3.3 Databases for beginners - PostgreSQL and Ruby

2017-06-20 | Lovisa Johansson

Part 3.3 of Databases for beginners. Tutorial and example source codes for Ruby and the client library Sequel.

Part 3.2 of Databases for beginners - PostgreSQL and PHP

2017-06-20 | Lovisa Johansson

Part 3.2 of Databases for beginners. Tutorial and example source codes for PHP.

Part 3.1 of Databases for beginners - PostgreSQL and NodeJS

2017-06-20 | Lovisa Johansson

Part 3.1 of Databases for beginners. Tutorial and example source codes for NodeJS.

Difference between shared and dedicated plans

2017-05-25 | Lovisa Johansson

This article explains the difference between shared and dedicated plans in ElephantSQL. Find out which plan option will work best for you! Dedicated plans provides a complete PostgreSQL server, while a shared instances gives you a database on a shared PostgreSQL server.

Backups API

2017-05-22 | Anders Bälter

List, download, create and restore from backups through our fresh Backups API.

Centralize your logs

2017-05-12 | Anders Bälter

You're now able to ship your PostgreSQL logs from ElephantSQL dedicated instances to Papertrail, Splunk, Loggly and Logentries!

Point in time restore

2017-05-04 | Anders Bälter

You can now restore your instance to any point in time.

Multi-datacenter clusters

2017-05-04 | Anders Bälter

Fork, recovery or replicate across clouds!

High Availability (HA) PostgreSQL plans at ElephantSQL

2017-04-48 | Lovisa Johansson

PostgreSQL High Availability (HA) plans are now available at ElephantSQL! A database on an HA plan will be create with a follower and has automatic failover in the face of hardware or software failure.

New high performance PostgreSQL plan

2017-03-15 | Lovisa Johansson

We are happy to announce a new high performance PostgreSQL plan for the public, Dramatic Dolphin!

Part 2. Databases for beginners - What is a SQL? Getting started with PostgreSQL

2016-02-24 | Lovisa Johansson

Part 2. Gives a brief understanding of the standard database language SQL. We will show how to create a table, how to insert data into a table and how to view the data in your database.

Part 1. Databases for beginners - What is a database? What is PostgreSQL?

2016-02-24 | Lovisa Johansson

Part 1. The first part of Databases for beginners gives an introduction to databases and PostgreSQL. Basic database concepts will be defined and it will help you set up your first database in the cloud.