After an incredibly productive and inspiring week at Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, it’s time to keep the momentum going! It was an honor to present technical sessions, a hands-on lab, and an executive roundtable, and to spend valuable time at the MAA HUB booth meeting customers, partners, and Oracle colleagues from all…
Category: Cloud
Playing with Autonomous Data Guard – Protecting your data against any unwanted disaster situation
As you know, implementing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy to adequately protect our data recoverability and availability, plus our business continuity, can be a very stressful experience. What’s worse is that it could take a lot of effort and time to implement it properly. When talking about High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR), it…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery (Full Stack DR) – Part 2 – It is now time to Play
Note: You can review the environment setup part of the tutorial here. Now that we have all DRPGs created and associated, it is time to add members to each DRPG (primary and standby). For the primary (Ashburn) DRPG we will add: The primary DB (ATP) The 2 Mushop Compute VM’s Two Volume Groups (Boot volumes…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack DR – Part 1 – Preparing the Environment
I am very happy to announce the GA of the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solution that the Oracle MAA team has been working very hard to bring to you (Thank you, Suraj Ramesh). Today we will play with the new, Full Stack DR it is a fully managed OCI disaster recovery orchestration and management…
Playing with ADWC (Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service)
Oracle has launched Oracle 18c and the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service (ADWC). Many people call the Oracle 18c as the Autonomous database, and this is a huge mistake! Oracle 18c (that is in reality Oracle 12.2.0.2) is not an autonomous database, this version includes many improvements and some automation options, but is not autonomous…
Playing with Oracle Ravello – Migrating your VMs to the Cloud
Hello everyone, A few years back we had the boom of the “Private Cloud” rush, where everyone started to implement virtualization technologies to make a better use of it Infrastructure resources and improve high availability, scalability and innovation! Now to simplify any migration to the Cloud (VM2Cloud) initiatives we can make use of this fantastic…
The Forgotten Link To The Cloud
(Note: This article was also published at Oracle.com – https://blogs.oracle.com/database/the-forgotten-link-to-the-cloud) Last year when presenting a session at Collaborate’17 in Las Vegas regarding Tips and Best Practices for DBAs, I went thru the evolution of the DBA profession and also gave a few tips of how a DBA can improve and be successful on his/her career….
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud Backup Service
This article will show you how easy is to make use of Oracle Cloud to securely store all our on-premises Oracle Database Backups. Note that backups stored in Oracle Cloud can also be used to create new Oracle Database Instances (DBaaS). Requirements: To perform the steps in this tutorial, you will need: An understanding of…
Playing with CrashSimulator
Hi everyone, Today I will show you how CrashSimulator (Shell Script – current version 1.04) works in detail. When unzipping the zip file you will find the following files within it: CrashSimulator.sh.x – For high-resolution ssh emulator screens, it shows all 3 menu columns on one screen. CrashSimulator_Low.sh.x – For low-resolution ssh emulator screens, it shows…
Playing with 18c on Oracle Database Cloud Service – How to use and create a database STEP by STEP
The Oracle Database Cloud Service (ODBCS) is the DBaaS extension of Virtual Image Service and includes additional automation for database provisioning during service creation, backup, recovery, and patching. While you are still responsible for the complete management of the environment, the embedded automation and tooling can simplify some DBA tasks. With the exception of Oracle Database…