At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with Oracle Cloud”. In this workshop, on day 4, the topic was “WebLogic on Kubernetes”. [https://paascommunity.com/2019/09/02/oracle-paas-summer-camp-2019-results-become-a-trained-certified-oracle-cloud-platform-expert/] At the Summer Camp we used […]
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Loading Data into Always Free Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud – from JSON and CSV to Database Table
In a number of recent articles, I have described how to provision an instance of Oracle Data Warehouse Cloud in Oracle Cloud’s Always Free tier. I have also described how to connect both SQL Developer and Data Visualization Desktop to this ADW instance. In this article, we take this one […]
Connect local SQL Developer to Oracle Cloud Autonomous Database (Always Free Tier)
In a recent article I described how to provision an instance of Oracle Cloud Autonomous Data Warehouse in the recently launched Always Free Tier of OCI. This article shows how to connect from SQL Developer (desktop tool) to this instance. Note: connecting from SQL Developer is the same [of course] […]
Oracle Cloud Always Free Autonomous Data Warehouse – steps to get going
Last month, Oracle announced it’s Cloud Free Tier on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This free tier offers several services (compute, storage, network, monitoring & notifications, serverless functions and Autonomous Database. Two autonomous database instance can be provisioned and leveraged in this “forever free tier” – each with up to 20 […]
Deploying an Oracle WebLogic Domain on a Kubernetes cluster using Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with Oracle Cloud”. In this workshop, on day 4, the topic was “WebLogic on Kubernetes”. [https://paascommunity.com/2019/09/02/oracle-paas-summer-camp-2019-results-become-a-trained-certified-oracle-cloud-platform-expert/] At the Summer Camp we used […]
Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 – Larry Ellison’s Key-Notes
This article gives some brief and key insights in Larry Ellison’s keynote presentation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. Note the new mission statement for Oracle: Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities. Autonomous was the key word of […]
Invoke an Oracle Function on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from a Node application
Oracle Functions is currently in limited preview and is expected to soon reach wider availability. Rolando Carrasco did this write up on Medium about his first experiences with Oracle Functions. Oracle Functions is a managed PaaS service, based on Project Fn. It supports a serverless architecture with light weight functions […]
Save File to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage from Node through REST API
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage is a public cloud service for storing data to which you need fast, immediate, and frequent access. As Oracle states: “The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage service is an internet-scale, high-performance storage platform that offers reliable and cost-efficient data durability. The Object Storage service can […]
Internet Intelligence – Checking on the accessibility of your web application from Anywhere in the world – for free with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
A valuable capability that organizations using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure have available is internet intelligence. This capability allows you to monitor the health and accessibility of your web site’s or web application’s host – from over 30 locations across the world. You enter the IP address of the host and the […]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI Scripts for preparing for OKE Cluster Provisioning
In order to provision a Kubernetes cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you need to prepare the OCI tenancy and create a compartment with appropriate network configuration and associated resources. All set up can be performed through the console – but this is quite tedious, error prone and outright stupid if […]
Get going quickly with Command Line Interface for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Docker container
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle’s second generation infrastructure as a service offering – that support many components including compute nodes, networks, storage, Kubernetes clusters and Database as a Service. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be administered through a GUI – a browser based console – as well as through a REST […]
R and the Oracle database: Using dplyr / dbplyr with ROracle on Windows 10
R uses data extensively. Data often resides in a database. In this blog I will describe installing and using dplyr, dbplyr and ROracle on Windows 10 to access data from an Oracle database and use it in R.