Operating systems

Terraform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction When you learn a cloud technology, like OCI, the one from Oracle, you start building your demo infrastructure with the web interface and numerous clicks. It’s convenient and easy to handle, even more if you’re quite used to infrastructure(…)

Recover data from Azure backup

During my last blog-post I experienced to use Azure backup to protect an on-premise Windows server. To recover data from Azure backup we need to use the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services console (MARS). This service and its management(…)

ODA 19.6 is available

Introduction It’s been 1 year now that 19c is available on-premise. Finally, 19c is now available today on ODA too, in a real production release. Let’s have a glance of what’s inside. Is 19.6 available for my old ODA? The(…)

How Windows Admin Center can backup on Azure

To be honest I never used before Windows Admin Center but after some hours of utilization I’m still convinced. As SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool to manage our SQL Server instances with a CMS (Centralized Management Server),(…)

Patching ODA from 18.3 to 18.8

Introduction 19c will soon be available for your ODAs. But you may not be ready. Here is how to patch your ODA from 18.3 to 18.8, the very latest 18c release. This patch has here been applied on X7-2M hardware.

odacli create-database extremely slow on ODA X8-2 with 19.5

Introduction ODA X8-2, in the S, M or HA flavour, is the new database appliance from Oracle. But as a brand new product, you can experience troubles due to the lack of maturity. This time, it concerns database creation that(…)

NVMe the afterburner for your database

Over 1 million IOPS (@8 KByte) and more than 26 GByte/s (@1MByte): Read more to see all impressive benchmark figures from a server with 14 NVMe drives and read why this is still not the best you could get...

Should I go for ODA 19.5 or should I wait until 19.6?

Introduction As you may know, Oracle Database 19c is available for new (X8-2) or older Oracle Database Appliances since several weeks. Current version is 19.5. But when you go to the official ODA documentation , it(…)

Make Oracle database simple again!

Introduction Let’s have a look at how to make Oracle database as simple as it was before. Oracle database is a great piece of software, yes it’s quite expensive, but it’s still the reference and most of the companies can(…)

Install CentOS 8 on VirtualBox

Last days, I needed to test our DMK tool for the new MySQL and MariaDB releases on the most recent version of CentOS. Here you can find all important steps to configure(…)