OCI ExaCS Database Upgrade Rollback
Recently I was testing OCI database upgrade from 12c to 19c and ran into an issue I wanted to fix. I was doing this via dbaascli (on Exadata) and the upgrade hit Bug 34455245 – db12c upgrade to 19c fails…
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Issues with OCI ExaCS PDB cloning
This is mostly just to document if you hit similar issues and how to get past them. I had to perform some remote cloning in ExaCS (from one CDB to another CDB) within same VM cluster, but hit few issues…
OCI Tips and Tricks – Managed MySQL Database in OCI (and trying out Heatwave)
Here I’m looking on how to provision MySQL DB on OCI, see how read replicas work and how to add Heatwave Cluster to your DB. After that, I’m running some test queries to try out Heatwave, interesting results!
OCI Tips and Tricks: Create 19c Oracle Database (and manage it)
This time I go over on how to create 19c Oracle Database on OCI (hint: It’s super easy!). But what I feel is more important, where to find relevant log files after you’ve provisioned the database and how to use…
WORM compliance with custom OCI Database backups
When you move your databases to cloud, many times the (current) standard backup configuration what Oracle offers is not enough. That’s when you configure OCI Cloud Database backup module which allows more flexibility with your RMAN configuration and also allows…
Basics of Autonomous Migration with ZDM and integration with CPAT
This will be my third post on using Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) for your migration, previously I’ve written about physical offline and online migration. Since Oracle talks a lot about Autonomous Database, let’s look this time what options you have…
Data Guard migration with ZDM
In the previous post I showed how to setup cloning or migration using offline physical option with Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM). This time let’s take a look what happens with ONLINE PHYSICAL option. Common migration requirement is to migrate with…
Oracle Database cloning in OCI – with ZDM!
I’ve been using Oracle’s Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) tool lately, and given there are still some limitations on cloning your database in OCI, I was thinking could we use ZDM for this? Short answer – for sure! If you want…
Remote Cloning OCI DBCS PDB with OCI CLI
In previous post I showed how to perform remote clone with Resource Manager What if you just want a quick remote clone to be done manually? Remember OCI Console doesn’t support Remote Cloning at the moment (February 2022) but you…
Remote Cloning OCI Database PDB with OCI Resource Manager, Terraform and Ansible
Code referenced in this post can be found from my Github page. There’s a new feature in OCI, which enables you to remote clone PDB from one database to another if certain conditions match. Right now, the databases need to…