Cloud

OCI: Automate your Oracle Cloud Database software releases deployment (db-home)

As part of a very exciting project around Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer (aka. ExaCC) technology, we wanted to rollout in an automated manner the database software aka. ORACLE_HOME on ExaCC database clusters (aka. VM cluster). However, we rapidly identified(…)

Troubleshoot cloud-unit “Error: Invalid cloud-config schema: user-data” @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

While applying what seemed to be a minor update, we managed to “break” our cloud-init automated OCI compute instance deployment process. This blog describes how to quickly troubleshoot & debug your #cloud-config on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (not so different from(…)

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration : Offline logical database migration from on-premises to Autonomous DB 

I have recently written a blog introducing the Oracle ZDM (Zero Downtime Migration) tool : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/zero-downtime-migration-zdm-to-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-oci/ I have also done some tests performing an offline logical database migration from a database running on an OCI(…)

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(…)