Tag: Oracle
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 …
When starting to use sqlplus 12.2 I noticed that my SQL prompt was not changing to what login.sql told it to be. This did not happen in sqlplus 12.1 …
One of the main reasons to move to the cloud is the promise of a decreasing Total Cost of Ownership. But the calculation of the TCO (IaaS) is not …
I have just returned home from the Oracle PaaS Partner Community Forum 2017 which took place in Split, Croatia. Filled with energy, inspiration, impressions, already fond memories, more understanding, …
Yesterday, I create a new application on Oracle Application Container Cloud. The application type is Node (fka Node.js), so the container type I had created was Node – rather …
Harry Dragstra
January 24, 2017
AMIS, Cyber Security, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, DevOps, Engineered Systems, ExaData, ODA, Oracle, Oracle 12, PL/SQL, 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 …
Events are quite relevant in modern computer architecture. At various levels of the stack. Events can represent various things – from IoT based measurements and logistical updates to web …
The Oracle PaaS cloud is turning into the next generation application server platform. More specifically: Oracle has announced the roadmap for the Application Container Cloud Service (not to be …
Oracle Database Release 12c (12.1) introduced a new operator that we can use in SQL queries. The MATCH_RECOGNIZE operator allows us to detect patterns in our relational data. Specifically: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Oracle introduced the ODA X6-2S and ODA X6-2M. And no, they are not the successor of the quite popular ODA X5-2, which we installed and configured quite a number …
Dear manager or team leader of Oracle professionals, If you have Oracle professionals in your team –whether they are DBAs, PL/SQL developers or Middleware & ADF specialists – in …
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. …
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 …
In my previous article, First setup of a connection from Node.js to an Oracle Database, I demonstrated how to make a connection to a remote database using Node.js and …
In this article I will demonstrate how to make a connection to a remote Oracle database from Node.js running on linux 7. We will be using the node-oracledb module …
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 …
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 …
Summarizing Oracle OpenWorld 2015 in a few headlines and key announcement is not easy. Because of the vast scope of the Oracle product portfolio (over 3000 products), the enormous …
Being at Oracle Open World you get a chance to learn about Oracle’s vision and strategy directly. In this blog I’ll summarize some of the things I learned about …
Last week I attended the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) track as part of the Oracle Summer Camps in Lisbon. Besides the great location and networking opportunities, it’s was …
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 …
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 …
This article is small and simple. It discusses how from PL/SQL an HTTP POST request can be made to a REST service. This particular service is exposed at http://localhost:9002/cinema …
In my previous article, Creating and scaling Dynamic Clusters in Weblogic 12c, I described the creation and scaling of Dynamic Clusters. I used the Weblogic Console to create the …
Introduced in Weblogic 12.1.2, dynamic clusters is a great feature to scale your private cloud. Dynamic clusters provides you easy scaling of Weblogic clusters by adding and removing managed …
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 …
Very recently, Oracle released the Oracle Stream Explorer product, available from OTN. With Oracle Stream Explorer, business users and citizen developers as well as hard core developers can create …
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 …
Customer case A while ago I was contacted by a customer about their old Oracle Application and Weblogic Server environment. They were receiving complaints from users that they can’t …
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 …
This article does not necessarily discuss the big themes and major stories of Oracle OpenWorld 2014. It does mention a number of facts that I discovered, overheard, observed or …
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 is over. Just under a week, full to the brim with information, events, people, energy, plans, hopes and expectations. I have learned many, many things. Small …
One of the often given advices on hardening a database is to run scripts without broadcasting your login data at the same time. According to Arup Nanda in his …
A short time ago, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c – release 12.1.0.2. With a bunch of goodies that I would like to try out. This release can be downloaded …
NOTE: even though the steps described in this article all work – I am running into a problem with shutting down and starting up the VM again. So at …
In my recent post I already mentioned it a little bit: Integrating your manual Data Guard Broker configuration in OEM Cloud Control can become a sort of climbing a Mountain. …
One of my clients has been running an Oracle RDB database on VMS for decades. This RDB database stores mission critical data and interfaces with COBOL applications and Oracle …
![Oracle 12c STIG Password Generator in PL/SQL]({"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2012\/08\/02\/2018836700.jpg","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"} "Oracle 12c STIG Password Generator in PL/SQL")
