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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Oracle had announced Database API for MongoDB which can be used together with Autonomous JSON Database. This post will be with some learnings what I went through when I tested it out. Official announcement post goes through the setup rather…
I’ll start by saying that typically I still see private DNS setup in the customer domain rather than in OCI, but recently I had a case where customer wanted OCI to manage specific internal sub-domain which we then used in…
This will be a short post, mainly just to guide where to look if you ever encounter this issue. Recently I was tasked on adding a database node on Exadata Cloud Service X8M. The new X8M has dynamic deployment options…
Update May 31st, 2021 – Seems like there was documentation bug so I’ve updated part about Agents. They are disabled by default so you need to enable them always if you want to use Bastion Service Managed session. I’ve always…