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…
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud Service – Virtual Image – How to use and create a database STEP by STEP
The Oracle Database Cloud Service (ODCS) Virtual Image option gives you some extra flexibility on how to deploy databases in the Oracle Cloud. When deploying an instance using the normal Oracle Database Cloud Service it will per default create an instance within the database installed and pre-configured for you, but on the other side, if…
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…
My Latin American Tour in March
At March I will be presenting my very successful seminar “Mastering Backup and Recovery” in some countries of Latin America for the very first time. Thank you Panama, Chile and Brazil OUGs for inviting me to your amazing countries! Please, use the following links for registration and also to find more information about the seminar:…
Join me at the next OTN Virtual Developer Day
Hi All, On February 4, 2014 at 9:30 am PT I will be talking on the next OTN Virtual Developer Day about Oracle VM and Oracle Database. Come and discover the answers for the following questions: Does an Oracle Database perform well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology is more stable and…
Problems when doing a V2V or P2V of a windows server to Oracle VM
Some time ago, I received the request to migrate some Windows 2008 Servers to my Oracle VM farm and after complete the P2V migration the newly create VM would not start. It would crash on boot with blue screen and error: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xXXXXXXXX,0xXXXXXXXX,0x00000000,0x00000000) This issue is related to the storage drivers needed for the guest…
Joint Webinar with Oracle – Top 5 Key Reasons Why Oracle VM is Best for Oracle Database
Top 5 Key Reasons Why Oracle VM is Best for Oracle Database When: Tuesday December 17th , 10am PST Register Here: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=725350&s=1&k=1512E332202610FE9518AB8B01354C6A&partnerref=Francisco Oracle VM application-driven architecture is designed for rapid deployment and ease of lifecycle management providing IT a highly scalable and cost effective virtualization solution for Oracle Database and business-critical applications. Join us in this webcast…
My book: Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide
It was a long journey of hard work and team work that now has finished, as a result you will find my book Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide that I wrote with the help of my good friend Aman Sharma. I would also take this opportunity to recognize the great work done…
Why use OVM for Oracle Databases
Some time ago I made a benchmark exercise to compare the performance of an Oracle Database running in a bare metal environment versus a virtualized environment to clear some of the main questions our team and clients in Revera have, such as: Does an Oracle Database performs well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology…