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Build is an overloaded term in the world of software engineering. Building software used to be mainly a fancy way of saying “programming”. Now after the construction of the code, the actual build process is kicked off, that takes the work from the individual programmer and turns it into something […]
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A Quick how-to RMAN backup to OCI Object Storage
This is a quick how-to article on setting up RMAN to backup to Object Storage on OCI. This is applicable when you build your on Oracle database on an OCI instance, or when you have a database on-premise you wish to backup to the (OCI) cloud.
Getting started with NoSQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
This morning I discovered a new entry in the menu on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy (on Ashburn, USA): the NoSQL Database service had been added overnight. The service offers a key-(schema-less) document store. It also supports ACID transactions, SQL on JSON documents, joins across tables, structured tables and if […]
Oracle Database: Write arbitrary log messages to the syslog from PL/SQL
Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that reports and analyzes them. Each message is labeled with a facility code, indicating the software type generating the message, and assigned […]
Newly released: Oracle Exadata X8-2 – bigger disks for saving money, expanding capacity
Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to swap in big 14 TB disks in older versions of Exadata that were shipped with far smaller disks, allowing these older systems to substantially increase there capacity. Our AMIS resident […]
Extremely convenient way to run free Oracle Database 18c on your laptop – or anywhere else – using Vagrant & Virtual Box
Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database XE has almost all features of Oracle Database; however, it is limited in non-functional terms (2 CPUs, 2 GB memory, 12 GB data volume). Oracle is generous in the terms […]
Quickly developing and hosting your friendly neighbourhood application – for free using … Oracle APEX
My challenge: my wife wants to set up a system for some of our friends and relatives to let each other know about appliances and things they can share as well as objects they offer up [because they plan to get rid of them]. The specifications are fairly straightforward: users […]
Querying connected data in Graph databases with Neo4j
TL;DR; · Graph databases are ideal for query use cases with data with complex relationships and layers of connections · Its query language is fast, efficient and allows for retrieval of information at deeper levels of abstraction in the data · Neo4j is currently the most popular Graph database, and […]
Oracle APEX: the low-code and low-cost application middle tier
Oracle APEX is a low code application development framework. It can be used free of charge – either as part of an existing Oracle Database license or running in the free Oracle Database 18c XE product. An Oracle APEX application should be considered a three-tier application – consisting of a […]
How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
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 the Azure platform. This will enable you to use this fast time-series database for your project. If the standard range of […]
A DBA’s first steps in Jenkins
My Customer wanted an automated way to refresh an application database to a known state, to be done by non-technical personnel. As a DBA I know a lot of scripting, can build some small web interfaces, but why bother when there are ready available tools, like Jenkins. Jenkins is mostly […]
Prepare and link bind Oracle Database Cloud, Application Container Cloud, Application Container Cache and Event Hub
A fairly common combination of Oracle Public Cloud services that I use together – for example for the implementation of microservices – is DBaaS, Application Container Cloud, Application [Container] Cache and Event Hub. In this article, I show the sequence of steps I went through in the Oracle Public Cloud […]
Run Oracle Database in Docker using prebaked image from Oracle Container Registry–a two minute guide
This article will show how to run an Oracle Database on a Docker host using the prebaked images on Oracle Continer Registry. It is my expectation that it takes me very little manual effort to run the full 12.2.0.1 Oracle Enterprise Database – just pull and run the Docker image. […]
Quick introduction to Oracle Container Registry–running one of Oracle’s prebaked images
Oracle has been active with Docker for quite some time now. From the first hesitant steps from some enthusiastic employees with Docker build files that helped people to get going with Oracle software in their experimental containers to a GitHub repo with a broad set of extensive Docker build files […]
Oracle 12c STIG Password Generator in PL/SQL
Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find on the WEB. But I wanted a password to comply to “ora12c_strong_verify_function”, and this isn’t as easy to generate as you might expect. Though most generators provide options to include […]
The state of the flagship as per Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – Oracle Database 12c Release 2, Exadata Express Cloud Service, SQL and PL/SQL
The new 12cR2 release of Oracle Database had already been announced and discussed at length over the past year. And now it is finally available. And only as cloud service for now. Initially through the Exadata Express Cloud Service – which consists of a single PDB in a multitenant CDB, […]
How to create a private 10 Gb network on an ODA X5-2
In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on an Oracle Database Appliance. I am talking about a Virtualized setup in this article, and rebuilding the second pair of public […]
Network considerations on an ODA X5-2
When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times 10Gb copper Ethernet (bonded into two interfaces) for public communication and two 40Gb InfiniBand (bonded into one interface) for interconnect communication between the two ODA_BASE’s. You would think that should […]
AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon Conference – Session Resource Repository
Below you will find an overview of all the sessions that took place at the AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon conference (1-3 June 2016, Katwijk, The Netherlands) along with the associated session resources – such as the presentation slides and where applicable the source code. Presenter(s) Title Session Resources Aino […]
Oracle Cloud – DBaaS instance down for no apparent reason – (how archive log mode and storage shortage forced the instance to its knees)
My Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS instance did not respond. On closer investigation, it turned out to be down. Mounting the database ended with an ORA-3113 End of Communication Channel. Investigation of the startup log and the database alerts indicated that no new archive log files could be created. The DBaaS […]
Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database (I)
In this Blog I will explore the possibilities to apply Continuous Delivery (CD) for the Oracle database. What is Continuous Delivery? The introduction on Wikipedia Continuous Delivery says: “Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be […]
Create and Run Docker Container with Node.js and Node Oracle DB Driver from Windows using Vagrant and VirtualBox
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal disturbance of my laptop environment (Windows 7). The solution discussed in this article: use Vagrant on Windows – together with VirtualBox – to create a Linux Host VM, install Docker […]
REST API on Node.js and Express for data retrieved from Oracle Database with node-oracledb Database Driver running on Application Container Cloud
This article is a follow up on my previous article Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API from node.js application leveraging node-oracle-database driver. That article describes how a simple Node.js application is configured for deployment on the Oracle Application Container Cloud and how it leverages the node-oracledb […]
Create JDBC Data Source or JDBC URL database connection to an Oracle Pluggable Database
JDBC URLs used in JDBC database connections in IDEs like JDeveloper and in JDBC Data Source definitions in Java EE servers such as WebLogic Server will typically use the Oracle Database SID as the name of the database. As Tim Hall writes, the syntax for the JDBC URL is as […]
Getting started with the Oracle DB as a Service (DBaaS) Cloud Service
In this article I will tell you how to get up and running with the Oracle Database as a Service Cloud offering. How in 30 minutes of your own time – and up to one hour background processing time – you will have an Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.2) instance running […]
One Fine October Week in San Francisco – The State of the Oracle according to AMIS (a 100+ page white paper on IAAS and PAAS)
The Oracle OpenWorld conference is an annual milestone for Oracle Corporation, for AMIS as well as for many others in our community. A moment to reevaluate our IT strategy and realign with peers as well as with Oracle. There is no other time nor place than this fall week in […]
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – The Complete, Comprehensive and relatively Concise Overview of a Cloud Conference
The Oracle OpenWorld 2015 conference in the last week of October 2015 was full to the brim with announcements, demonstrations, brainstorms, roadmaps, visions and other Oracle technology related activities. The main theme clearly was the cloud. Every other session revolved around the cloud and virtually every Oracle product is headed […]
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Data Management (Database)
This article gives an overview of some of the most eye catching stories from Oracle OpenWorld 2015 around Data Management. It discusses on premises products such as Oracle Database as well as cloud services around the Database. Data Management in the Oracle Integrated Cloud Platform Services composition covers Big Data, […]
Time is of the essence – The Fourth Dimension in Oracle Database 12c (on Flashback and Temporal Database)
Time has always been an important dimension for data in any database with topics like when was data created, when are records valid, how did records evolve over time, can we compare with yesteryear or even travel through time and data. The Oracle Database 12c release added a number of […]
Key take-aways from the Oracle PaaS Cloud announcements – Integrate, Accelerate, Lead
Monday June 22nd was the launch date for Oracle for 24 (and more) Cloud Services. June is traditionally an important month for Oracle when it comes to product launches and important announcements. This year is the same in that respect. The announcements came in a many-hour live webcast including a […]
Security Features of Standard Edition (One) – Part 2
or Some Musings on the Security Implications of Oracle Database Initialization Parameters Still following the steps of a database installation, this article will muse about some Initialization Parameters with security relevance. In order to make a Standard Edition database as secure as possible we could start by looking what is […]
Publish a REST service from PL/SQL to handle HTTP POST requests – using the embedded PL/SQL gateway
Oracle Database can act as an HTTP server – using the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (the 10g successor of the MOD_PLSQL gateway). With just a few statements, we can have the Oracle Database become a listener to HTTP requests (GET or POST). When requests are received at the configured host, port […]
Next step with Docker – Create Image for Oracle Database 12c using Puppet
In a previous article – https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/15/docker-take-two-starting-from-windows-with-linux-vm-as-docker-host/ – I have discussed my first steps with Docker. With Windows as my host environment I used Vagrant to create a VirtualBox VM with Ubuntu. In that VM I installed Docker can played around creating some containers, images and eventually an image for Oracle […]
Mobile backend with REST services and JSON payload based on SOA Suite 12c for Live Mobile Hacking with an OFM 12c red stack – Part 2
This article continues the story from Mobile backend with REST services and JSON payload based on SOA Suite 12c for Live Mobile Hacking with an OFM 12c red stack – Part 1. It is the story of how to expose SOAP/XML based Web Services – primed for enterprise integration and […]
SOA Suite: How to set database session context through Database Adapter – and how to retrieve data from V$SESSION
To allow the Oracle Database to produce meaningful log, audit trail and trace information that allow problem analysis of issues and interpretation and optimization of run time behavior, it is necessary that the database session execution context is set. Without it, efficient administration of the RDBMS is not possible. This […]
Mobile backend with REST services and JSON payload based on SOA Suite 12c for Live Mobile Hacking with an OFM 12c red stack
In a previous article – https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/03/preparation-for-live-mobile-hacking-with-an-ofm-12c-red-stack-budapest-2015/– I introduced the challenge Luc Bors and I were facing for the Live Mobile Hacking session at the Oracle Fusion Middleware EMEA Partner Forum. For an audience of some 200 SOA Suite and Oracle Middleware experts – including the product management teams for several […]
Compose end to end tracing, logging and monitoring with ECID set from WebLogic in Database (exposed in V$SESSION)
The title of this blog is unfashionably long – and really says it all. The ECID (Execution Context ID) that is used in Fusion Middleware to identify a conversation across components in one or more WebLogic servers can be used to trace that conversation into the database. When an HTTP […]
Security Features of Standard Edition (One) – Part 1
or A closer look on database hosts The last couple of years quite a few organizations had a difficult time and internal costs where a main focal point was to save money. License costs was one thing where many IT-managers put their question marks and so often the decision was […]
Cloud Control Agent 12c managing many objects
An Oracle Enterprise Management Agent 12c that has to manage hundreds of objects needs extra tweaking. If not, it will not start, or it will die soon, leaving you with an unmanaged infrastructure. Situation The customer runs over 200 databases on 1 host. Intel bases host with 384GB RAM and […]
SQL*Plus / SQL*Net Dead Connection Detection
Recently I came across the situation where I knew for a fact that my sessions to the database were dead because I pulled the power plug out of my application server for a failover test. But the sessions stayed visible in the database and kept their locks therefore the failover failed. Now how […]