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Which Bitnami service to choose in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Cloud PaaS you have a marketplace where you can choose your service. Some are packaged from Bitnami and available on multiple OS. My first idea is that in PaaS you do not care(…)

Postgres, the fsync() issue, and ‘pgio’ (the SLOB method for PostgreSQL)

By Franck Pachot . That's a long blog post title, which is actually just a good pretext to play with Kevin Closson SLOB method for PostgreSQL: pgio I use the beta version of pgio here. If you want to read(…)

ADWC – System and session settings (DWCS lockdown profile)

By Franck Pachot . The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service is a PaaS managed service where we have a PDB and an ADMIN user which has most of the system privileges. For example, we have the privilege to change initialization(…)

12c upuserxt.lst, upobjxt.lst & Oracle Maintained objects/users

By Franck Pachot . Mike Dietrich has blogged recently about upuserxt.lst and upobjxt.lst and how to query them with external table. The first time I've seen those '.lst' files, the default extension(…)

PDB RMAN backups available after plugging in on a new CDB with Oracle 18c

With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB is DB18, with(…)

ADWC – connect from your premises

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Service, I've run queries though the Machine Learning Notebooks. But you obviously want to connect to it from your premises, with SQL*Net.

SQL Developer Web on the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You like SQL Developer because it is easy to install (just unzip a jar) and has a lot of features? Me too. It can be even easier if it is provided as a web application: no(…)

Some ideas about Oracle Database on Docker

By Franck Pachot . This is not a 'best practice' but just some ideas about building Docker images to provide an Oracle Database. I started with the images provided by Oracle: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDatabase/SingleInstance and this is great(…)

ADWC – the hidden gem: Zepplin Notebook

By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog posts I explained how to create, and stop/start the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service. And I didn't show yet how to connect to it. It is(…)

ADWC – a Docker container to start/stop Oracle Cloud services

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post, I've explained how to start and stop the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service from PSM (PaaS Service Manager). There's a setup phase, and a run phase starting with(…)