Cloud

Using Oracle API for MongoDB on OCI

If you’ve ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you’ve probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In response to this, Oracle (and others) use(…)

Metadata-driven pipelines : la continuité du Master Package SSIS

Organiser des flux, c’est une question qui m’a accompagné tout au long de ma carrière. Quand j’ai commencé avec les ETL, j’ai appris “à l’ancienne” : toutes les règles de gestion codées directement dans les packages. Une approche rigide, lourde(…)

AWS Summit Zurich 2025

Last Thursday I could go to the AWS Summit Zurich 2025 edition. So it’s time to do a little recap of what I could see and what was presented during the event. Amid the infinite sessions about AI, I could(…)

Creating&Refreshing a refreshable PDB (from a Standby Database)

I’m used to work with refreshable clones in several Oracle multitenant environments. However, due to the amount of Archived Redo Log generated we never really tried to offload the the “refresh” process on the Active Data Guard Standby database. Let’s(…)

SQL Server 2025: Where Data Meets Intelligence

The evolution of AI is booming and brings many new possibilities to enhance efficiency and convenience with many different use cases. While AI chatbots have had an almost revolutionary influence in recent years, we are now entering the next phase(…)

Exploring the Future of Data at SQLBits 2025 in London

I’m looking back on three amazing days of interesting technical insights from the SQLBits event 2025 in London. It’s actually my first time having the pleasure of attending one of Europe’s biggest data platform events and I can sincerely say,(…)

Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025

Last week I attended the Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025 with my colleague Adrien from the Cloud team. It was the 1st time for us but it was already the 6th edition of the event. This is a community event(…)

ExaCC/CS: modify database parameters in batch mode using dbaascli

This post briefly describes how to use a JSON responseFIle to modify (container) database parameters on Oracle Cloud ExaCC/ExaCS service. What are our options with dbaascli? Well, we can simply go ahead and apply single changes one by one.

Optimize materialization of Exadata PDB sparse clones

Well, this blog is unfortunately reserved to DBA folk running Oracle engineered systems #Exadata, #ExaCC, #ExaCS and Oracle Multitenant database (aka. CDB) architecture.One of our #ExaCC customer has a strong DevOps focused business and heavily relies on Exadata sparse clones(…)

SQLDay 2025 – Wrocław – Sessions

After a packed workshop day, the SQLDay conference officially kicked off on Tuesday with a series of sessions covering cloud, DevOps, Microsoft Fabric, AI, and more. Here is a short overview of the sessions I attended on the first day(…)