Tag: Oracle

As of Oracle database release update 19.18 a new authentication method was made available utilizing Azure AD (Entry ID as its named by Microsoft recently) Oauth tokens. Using this …

Yesterday Oracle released their latest Autonomous database offering in a container image to try (most of) the Automous database technology without requiring access to the Oracle Cloud (OCI). This …

I bet you are used to relational data structures that you query using SQL. And so do I. And there is nothing in terms of data that a good …

Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …

This article describes how you can run your very own Oracle Database from your browser using Gitpod. With a free account (50 hours Gitpod use per month), you can …

My challenge: replicate changes from database A to database B, once per day. The tables involved are pretty big (100M records). I really would not want to process them …

An Oracle Wallet is an encrypted file that contains database credentials – username and password – for connecting to an Oracle Database. This avoids writing hard code user passwords …

I have been struggling a bit with this one: how to connect from a Go application to an Oracle Database – both a locally running database as well as …

The situation: a Compartment on OCI should be removed. Or at least all its resources should be purged. Or at least most of the resources should be removed. The …

  preparation for migrating data to Oracle Virtual Private Database Introduction Recently I was part of a team involved in the preparation of migration data belonging to multiple business …

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 …

A simple challenge: I am working on a SQL query. Not a trivial query. I am trying various approaches. I believe I may have found a solution that works. …

I hear this aspiration from a growing number of organizations. Sometimes as a quite literal question. This however is merely half of a wish. Apparently, organizations want to quite …

One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to learn all the time. A day to loved is a day not lived, a day not laughed …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gathers metrics from all OCI resources. These metrics can be visualized and analyzed with the Metrics Explorer. And Alarms can be defined with rules evaluating the …

In a recent article, I described how serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can invoke each other: synchronously and asynchronously. Although asynchronous calls are the desired state, such calls …

OCI allows for cloud native application development, using facilities such as serverless functions, a light weight API gateway, a streaming service for asynchronous communication based on event messaging and …

The objective for this article is to show you how to get to the point where two routes are available on an API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that …

This article demonstrates a set up that is probably mainly of theoretical interest or maybe useful in demonstrations. I describe how we can invoke an OCI serverless Function through …

The objective in this article: create a simple Authorizer Function that checks the Client Secret passed in API calls and allows and denies requests based on whether the correct …

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 …

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 …

Prometheus is a very popular framework for gathering metrics from a plethora of runtime components, recording, analyzing, visualizing them and making them available for companion technologies such as Grafana. …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Data analytics is what turns data into business value. Oracle has a long history in Data Analytics – from Oracle Discoverer and its predecessors such as Data Browser through …

Anyone with a trial account for Oracle Cloud can use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to get herself a three-node Kubernetes Cluster instance, running on Oracle’s managed Kubernetes Engine Cloud …

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. …

July 2018 saw another edition of the Oracle Developers’ tour through India, called Yatra. In just over two weeks, seven cities participated in this tour – with each city …

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 …

In a recent post, I introduced the managed Oracle Cloud Service for Kubernetes, the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE): https://technology.amis.nl/2018/05/25/first-steps-with-oracle-kubernetes-engine-the-managed-kubernetes-cloud-service/. A logical next step when working with Kubernetes in somewhat …

Oracle recently (May 2018) launched its Managed Kubernetes Cloud Service (OKE – Oracle Kubernetes Engine) – see for example this announcement: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/kubecon-europe-2018-oracle-open-serverless-standards-fn-project-and-kubernetes. Yesterday I got my self a new …

One of my clients had an issue with their Dataguard setup, after having to move tables and rebuild indexes the transport to their standby databases failed. The standby databases …

Even for organizations with strong roots in relational databases such as Oracle RDBMS, there may be valuable opportunities for leveraging additional data sources, for example to support special (search) …

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 announced a managed Kubernetes Cloud service during Oracle OpenWorld 2017. This week, I had an opportunity to work with this new container native cloud offering. It is quite …

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 …

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 …

In his keynote on October 3rd during Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Thomas Kurian stated that the vision at Oracle around analytics has changed quite considerably. He explained this change and …