Slow updates recently as I was getting ready to two AWS exams. Happy to announce that I passed both the Solutions Architect Associate and the SysOps Administrator Associate! As I’m working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well now then…
For already quite some time I’ve thought it would be great to discuss on interesting topics with some of the Oracle experts out there and now I’m happy to say my first episode on FinnishingThoughts Podcast is out! …
In this post I will go through rest of services we discussed in the seminar. You can read part 1 from here. 5. Compute Services 6. Storage – Block volume & Object storage 7. Load Balancer 8. Database Services 9.…
I had the opportunity to attend half a day seminar about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) what Oracle offers. Here are some notes about it and some comparison to Amazon Web Services which I have been using a lot lately as…
Happy new year! I’ll continue with Ansible topic with one more post as it has helped our small operations team quite a lot lately. We still run Oracle e-Business Suite 12.1.3 and the amount of customizations we have is really…
We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately we have been looking more and more into Ansible which as per their site is simple automation/orchestration tool. (Not so sure…
When we were planning migration from commodity hardware to Exadata X5-2 one open topic we had was if it makes sense to enable write-back flash cache in Exadata. The default mode is write-through where read operations utilize flash cache but…
Past week I attended Oracle Open World in San Francisco. I hadn’t been there for last 7 years so it was good to see lot of familiar faces there again. Still what comes to conference itself there are always good…
We recently had very challenging issue after we upgraded our EBS 12.1.3 database from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2. On random occasions threads on output post processor started to hang / wait for something and eventually this caused concurrent managers to get…
Wow few upgrades and summer vacation kept me busy past few months. Lately I have been looking on automation and started to look into ChatOps. So what is ChatOps? If you look from various sources you get different explanation but…