Hi Everyone! These have been crazy weeks, but almost ready to board to another trip to Oracle Open World. I will like to thank everyone that participated on my Oracle Webcast last week “Does Cloud Mean the End of the DBA? DBA 18.0 – Life after 18c”. I was a success with a huge number…
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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 Cloud – Creating a Hybrid DR Deployment
On this article, we will create a Hybrid Disaster Recovery (DR by using Data Guard) Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment with a primary database on-premises and a standby database in the cloud. This can be used to implement an improve the high availability of your Database by taking advantage of the Cloud, and even to migrate your…
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud – Migrating to Cloud using an Oracle Cloud Backup
The idea for this scenario is to learn how to migrate an Oracle Database from on-premises to Oracle Cloud DBaaS by using a previously done backup using Oracle Cloud Backup Services. First, we will create an Oracle Database Cloud Services database deployment (DBaaS) whose database is instantiated from a cloud backup created by using Oracle Database Backup…
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 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…
Playing with Google Authenticator and Oracle Cloud – Securing SSH to Oracle account with two factor authentication
The Requirement Increase security when connecting via SSH to the Oracle OS account at Oracle Cloud by implementing two factor authentication (TFA or 2FA). The Environment Oracle Cloud Instance OS: Oracle Linux 6.9 The Implementation For this exercise we will implement Google Authenticator as our TFA solution in our Oracle Cloud Instance and configure it…
How to Solve: SQL Developer can’t start because MSVCR71.dll is missing (On Windows)
I have installed SQL Developer (with JDK) on Windows many times before, and almost all the time I receive the system error bellow when trying to execute it by the first time. Due to this, I decided to publish the solution to this annoying issue. We can easily fix this issue by following these simple…