Cloud

18c, Cloud First and Cloud Only features: think differently

By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the(…)

A free persistent Google Cloud service with Oracle XE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've listed several free online services which run an Oracle XE so that you can test your SQL easily. You may want use Oracle XE further, with full(…)

Spectre and Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – LIO

By Franck Pachot . In the last post I published the strange results I had when testing physical I/O with the latest Spectre and Meltdown patches. There is the logical I/O with(…)

Spectre/Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – PIO

By Franck Pachot . The Spectre and Meltdown is now in the latest Oracle UEK kernel, after updating it with 'yum update': [opc@PTI ~]$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-uek | awk '/CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754/{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c 43 {CVE-2017-5715} 16(…)

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

Managing Oracle Big Data Cloud – CE with REST API

In this blog post, we will see how to manage Oracle Public Cloud Big Data service Compute Edition with REST API. Scheduling the start/stop/restart of a metered PaaS in the Oracle Cloud can be interesting for managing efficiently the consumption(…)

Am I a DBA 3.0 or just an SQL*DBA?

By Franck Pachot . There are currently a lot of new buzz words and re-namings which suggest that our DBA role is changing, most of them escorted with a #cloud hashtag. Oracle Technology Network is now called Oracle Developer Community.

Oracle Cloud: script to stop all PaaS services

By Franck Pachot . With metered cloud services, keeping all your instances running may become expensive. The goal is to start them only when you need them. Here is a script that stops all instances you have on the Oracle(…)

APEX Connect 2017 – Day 3

For the last conference day, after the Keynote about “JavaScript: The next Language YOU should learn” by Dan McGhan , I decided to attend presentations on following topics: – Upgrade your APEX app with zero downtime by using EBR(…)

Google Cloud Platform instances and Oracle Database

By Franck Pachot . When it comes to choose a cloud instance to run Oracle Database, you want to be able to run your workload on the minimum CPU cores. This is why in a previous(…)