Cloud

Windows Server container on an AKS cluster

A few weeks ago I participated at the dbi services bootcamp. All new employees are gathered for a refreshment of dbi services best practices. This is also an opportunity to ask questions directly to our CEO(…)

Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

The question to migrate or not to the Cloud comes more and more often now. There are some added values to go to the Cloud as analytics capabilities, scalability and flexibility, cost saving, no dedicated hardware and its related maintenance,(…)

Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service

In a previous blog I demonstrated how to migrate an Oracle database from AWS to Oracle OCI using Data Guard. But what if you want to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, but don’t have a direct connection between the(…)

Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based on index fragmentation – password less – azure managed identity

How do you check and rebuild your indexes for Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool? That question is getting even more interesting if you have only Private Endpoint enabled to connect to the MSSQL DB.  Lets get started!  Requirements Azure(…)

Estimate the Downtime for an Offline MS SQL Migration: On-Premise to Azure SQL Database

As you want to migrate your database workload to the Azure Cloud, you must test different aspects of the migration. An important factor for an offline migration is to estimate the duration of the migration process, so the service owner(…)

Disaster Recovery Solution to Azure SQL Database

Executive Summary As preparation for migrating his MS SQL workload to the cloud, a customer ask for a disaster recovery solution from an On-Premise MS SQL Instance to an Azure Cloud. The starting point for the disaster recovery will be(…)

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

ChatGPT vs DevOps

As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested to(…)

OCI : How to change VCN Name?

Starting my first experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I played with my lab and wanted to change my VCN name. I thought it might be more than easily with the Web Console, but could realise this was not possible. I(…)

Hashicorp Vault. Install and quick first configuration

Introduction Keeping and using passwords in scripts is often an overlooked task, at least in the initial stages of development.This behavior poses serious security problems, and quite often, especially in scripts, one can find plaintext passwords.If the project uses Git,(…)