Oracle

Remote syslog from Linux and Solaris

By Franck Pachot . Auditing operations with Oracle Database is very easy. The default configuration, where SYSDBA operations go to 'audit_file_dest' (the 'adump' directory) and other operations go to the database may be sufficient to log what is done but(…)

ADWC new OCI interface

By Franck Pachot . A few things have changed about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service recently. And I've found the communication not so clear, so here is a short post about what I had to do to start the(…)

Change Data Capture from Oracle with StreamSets Data Collector

By Franck Pachot . With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase.

SQLcl connect target depends on previous connection

By Franck Pachot . I thought it was a bug for two reasons: first, because I don't like that my connect destination depends on the context, and then because it is a different behavior than in SQL*Plus. But finally, it(…)

OpenShift on my Windows 10 laptop with MiniShift

By Franck Pachot . If you want to play with OpenShift on your laptop, you can, in a Virtual Machine. I have VirtualBox installed on my laptop. I'll install Minishift here, which will create the VM to run OpenShift with(…)

Which Bitnami service to choose in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Cloud PaaS you have a marketplace where you can choose your service. Some are packaged from Bitnami and available on multiple OS. My first idea is that in PaaS you do not care(…)

ADWC – System and session settings (DWCS lockdown profile)

By Franck Pachot . The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service is a PaaS managed service where we have a PDB and an ADMIN user which has most of the system privileges. For example, we have the privilege to change initialization(…)

12c upuserxt.lst, upobjxt.lst & Oracle Maintained objects/users

By Franck Pachot . Mike Dietrich has blogged recently about upuserxt.lst and upobjxt.lst and how to query them with external table. The first time I've seen those '.lst' files, the default extension(…)

PDB RMAN backups available after plugging in on a new CDB with Oracle 18c

With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB is DB18, with(…)

ADWC – connect from your premises

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Service, I've run queries though the Machine Learning Notebooks. But you obviously want to connect to it from your premises, with SQL*Net.