Cron, not as easy as expected?
Few days ago I was confronted with the situation that a refresh job failed. The job is supposed to run every Saturday morning at 07:00, but failed due a …
Category: IT
Tegenvallende klantervaring door matige business logica IT
Dit is een verhaal over mijn ervaringen als klant van een leasemaatschappij. Of misschien als belanghebbende (want mijn werkgever is de klant). Een verhaal op twee niveaus: de klantervaring …
Booting up–even quite senior – laptops with Ubuntu Linux OS using Rufus
The challenge was as follows: provide a handson workshop environment – consisting of nothing more than a browser connected to our office’s Wifi network – for visitors to the …
Migrate Oracle VM to KVM easily and without reconfiguration
Oracle VM is end-of-life and is, since March 2021, in extended support1. In looking for a replacement hypervisor AMIS has turned to KVM. Oracle itself also uses KVM, albeit …
Blog milestone: 200 blog posts, 1M page views!
This is my 200th blog post. Also I reached 1M page-views recently. In those 200 blog posts, I used approximately 325K words. An average non-fiction book is somewhere between …
Java Security: Open Source tools for use in CI/CD pipelines
It is often expected of a DevOps team to also take security into consideration when delivering software. Often however, this does not get the attention it deserves. In this …
AWS Shop example: step functions
Introduction When you follow along in this series , you might have been irritated by the amount of work to test your functions. It isn’t a problem to test …
HTTP benchmarking using wrk. Parsing output to CSV or JSON using Python
wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool. Using a simple CLI interface you can put simple load on HTTP services and determine latency, response times and the number of successfully …
Oracle Integration Cloud pricing explained – OCI vs Classic
Last week at AMIS we had the task of estimating costs of a proposed iPaaS solution for one of our customers that runs on a fully managed cloud. As …
Test Automation Days 2019
Vorige week woensdag en donderdag (19 en 20 juni) werden de Test Automation Days gehouden. De eerste dag bestond uit twee workshops die elk drie uur duurden. Op tweede …
How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
October 12, 2018
Database, Cloud, Containers, Databases, Docker, IT, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL
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InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other database) in a VM with a managed disk on …
PeopleCounter part one: Counting People
Intro Internet of Things stands for connecting devices to the internet. The devices are then able to communicate with each other. In our project, the PeopleCounter, we use a …
Oracle’s extended support – when is it free of charge
It’s such a simple, basic and old question I got from a colleague: “Do you have to pay for extended support?”. And if so, how much I have to …
Java SE licensing
There are several good blogs about this subject (like this one), and I never paid much attention to Java and licensing. Until one of our customers became a bit …
Oracle, Azure Cloud and licensing with hyperthreading enabled.
Until recently, there was one rule when deploying Oracle software in the Azure cloud: count one Azure CPU Core as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license. But there was …
Oracle Compute Cloud – Uploading My Image – Part Two – Linux 7
July 24, 2017
Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, IT, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use …
AWS – Build your own Oracle Linux 7 AMI in the Cloud
July 14, 2017
Cloud, Cyber Security, Database, IT, Oracle, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or …
Consequences of stopping Oracle support
When buying licenses for Oracle, the first year support is mostly part of the deal. After that, a Customer may decide to stop paying for the yearly technical support …
Better track the Usage of Database Options and Management Packs, or it will cost you
So here it is Oracle announces a license audit, some urgency kicks in and this familiar but also really serious question comes down from management: “Are we using any …
Single-Sign-On to Oracle ERP Cloud
More and more enterprises are using Single-Sign-On (SSO) for there on-premise applications today, but what if they want to use SSO for there cloud applications as well? This blog …
Saving money by understanding Oracle licensing part 2
In part 1 the basics were explained. In this part II other topics will be treated like virtualizing, engineered systems, SE2, Unlimited License Agreements, Cloud and other stuff. Whenever …
Saving money by understanding Oracle licensing, part 1
Oracle and licenses. The general feeling most of the time is that you pay too much for the use of the Oracle products, and it’s not always sure if …
6 surprising things you can do with Google search
Next the normal Google search you can use this search box for a lot more things. This search box is often the first place where you type when you want …
Utilizing your IT environment with Oracle Database Appliance
I admit, I’m a bit of a fan of the Oracle Database Appliance. And I also admit there are some characteristics of the X5-2 ODA’s which made it sometimes …
Why go to a seminar or conference?
Developing a solid business case for going to a conference is not always easy. Most of the time the company culture dictates the succes-rate of your attempt. The necessity for …
Usage Tracking Reports, using Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C as a SAM tool
Still loving the idea to use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a ‘kind of ‘ Software Asset Management Tool, and get regular centralized reports that tells me what Oracle software …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Infrastructure as a Service – and as a Product – on Compute, Linux, Private Cloud Machine, Storage, Network and more
If you want to be a cloud provider with a complete portfolio, that means you need to offer Infrastructure as a Service. That is where some cloud providers start(ed) …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015: IT Operations & Management
This article gives an overview of some of the most eye catching stories from Oracle OpenWorld 2015 around IT Ops and management. It discusses the ‘single pane of glass’ …
Oracle licenses needed while monitoring your (non-)Oracle environment with OEM
October 20, 2015
Architecture, Database, Databases, Enterprise Manager, IT, Licensing, Platform Technology
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With Oracle Enterprise Manager you are able to monitor an Oracle environment as well as a non-Oracle environment, like Microsoft’s SQL Server. You are also able to exchange notifications …
Licensing ODA on NUP’s and with different metrics
Since Oracle launched the Oracle Database Appliance a few years ago it has become clear that only the Enterprise Edition is allowed on the machine. But when NOT using …
Keeping track of your licenses with OEM12C – reports
Wouldn’t be nice to get regularly informed how (in)compliant you are with Oracle licenses in an easy – centralized – way, and therefore not have to worry about visits …
ADF Performance Monitor: Support for EJB/JPA (EclipseLink)
Not all Oracle ADF projects are built with ADF Business Components (ADF BC). Some organizations prefer to use EJB/JPA (EclipseLink) instead of ADF BC. The EclipseLink JPA provides developers with …
Oracle datapump, advanced compression and licensing
As you may well know, Advanced Compression is an option you have to pay for when using it. But as a DBA you can’t always control the use of …
Oracle licenses and the cloud
Suppose the number of Oracle licenses you acquired in the past, is in line with the use. That is, you’re compliant with all the licensing rules Oracle come up …
Oracle has changed the Exchange rate of the Euro to 0.8682
For years the number of 0.7893 meant something to those who are working on regular basis with licenses in Europe. This number is the ‘Current local Pricing Exchange rate’. …
Changed licensing rules for Exadata X5-2 with OracleVM
On 21 January 2015, Oracle announced Exadata X5, the sixth revision of Oracle’s database management system (DBMS) engineered system. The entire Exadata configuration no longer needs to be licensed …
ADF Performance Monitor: Measuring Slow Network Time
Recently I was implementing the ADF Performance Monitor at a customer site and doing a detailed performance analysis. This customer had severe (and less severe) performance problems but was …
How to get your picture in Google search results with Google Authorship Markup
Did you ever wonder how you people get their picture in the Google search results? You want this too? Sure you can, this is quite easy. This feature is …
ADF Runtime Diagnostics: Instrumenting your ADF Application – Part 2
In a series of blog articles I show how you can instrument your ADF Application key actions. Instrumenting gives visibility and insight of what is happening inside the ADF application …
ADF Performance Monitor: Detecting and Analyzing a High ADF BC Memory Consumption
Like other web applications, Oracle ADF applications potentially use a lot of JVM memory. Many times, the root cause of a high memory usage is that application data retrieved …