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.
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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 […]