As you know, Oracle Database@Azure has been available now for few years and Microsoft has made awesome advantages in the solution during this time. Some of the things might not be so “hot” but if you work with any of the offerings they have, you know these improvements/new features have been really welcomed for critical…
Something new! Whenever I work with specific databases in cloud, I’ve typically had to pull information through CLI and/or via Console. When you have multiple databases or Exadata platforms, it’s gotten to a point that it’s hard to get simple view on what you have and where you are overall. That’s why I’ve made (with…
This is more of a bookmark/reminder, but I ran into issues where we weren’t sure if the SIEM tool being used to ingest data from OCI Streaming is actually able to connect to the stream. I figured there must be a tool for this! And there is. It’s called kcat (previously Kafka Connect). Nice thing…
This will probably not be useful post for many but if you ever run into this post and it’s useful, let me know! This time I had to get Guardian VM installed on OCI for our OT network to monitor the devices. What is OT network? An operational technology (OT) network refers to the hardware and…
Continuing testing Oracle Database@Google features, this time I wanted to test provisioning using gcloud CLI on Google and seeing how it works out. Google has documentation on using CLI to provision Autonomous Database (ADB) here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/oracle-database/autonomous-databases/create Some of the variables are not right away clear, but in addition to the example I wanted to provision…
This topic keeps coming up and there are many good blog posts from Oracle and their A-Team on this. As you know, you utilize Oracle Service Gateway to access Oracle Services within the Region. However, you can also broadcast these public IP addresses via Service Gateway towards Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG) and then to your…
Short answer: Yes! When you deploy your Autonomous Database with a private endpoint, you will get endpoint which translates to A record in your VCN. In some cases, you don’t want to relay that oraclecloud.com address further down the road outside of OCI. This could be case for example connecting from on-premises via FastConnect or…
If you’ve worked with Autonomous Database previously, you know that every now and then you need to get files from the Autonomous Database or put files to Autonomous Database so they can be processed. For example, when you migrate data using Oracle Data Pump, the log files will be placed on the Autonomous Database. Typically,…
Well this took a while! With recent work and travel it’s been couple busy months. Excited to write on this after being at Google Next 25 last week! I really feel the Oracle partnership with Google, Azure and AWS is going to be awesome for folks who still leverage Oracle technology heavily but want to…
Just saw that OCI has enabled preview for new OCI Console experience. To enable it, scroll down on your dashboard after login and click on the enable preview. Let’s take a look on it! When I login to the Console, I see the normal dashboard with slightly bigger fonts. Not all services have been enabled…
