Cloud

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(…)

Oracle 12cR2, RAC, Cloud, ACFS, PDB thin clones and asmadmin

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Public Cloud, fast provisioning gets all its meaning when creating a RAC database service: in one hour you can get an operational highly available multitenant database. You can even create it in Data(…)

Oracle Public Cloud: LIOPS with 4 OCPU in PaaS

By Franck Pachot . In the latest post I've run a cached SLOB workload on Oracle Cloud IaaS to measure logical reads per seconds on a system covered by 2 processor licences (so 4 OCPs). Just(…)