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…
Can I connect with custom private hostname to my Autonomous Database?
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…
ZDM migration to Autonomous Database on GCP using Network Link for direct migration – part 1
This will be a weird and fun post. I have recently been working with Autonomous Database migrations and wanted to highlight the option of using Oracle datapump (ZDM Logical Offline) and network link option. Using network link removes the need to export the data first to cloud storage and allows you to import “directly” your…
Autonomous Database Audit Logs to Logging Service Part 1
I recently came across requirement to get OCI Oracle Autonomous Database audit logs to OCI Logging Service, mainly due to getting them to external SIEM system. Typically once we get the logs to Logging, we can use OCI Service Connector to ingest them to Oracle Streaming and then from there, external systems can get the…
Connecting to Autonomous Database Running on Google Cloud
Last time I showed how to provision Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) on Google Cloud. This time I have provisioned a new ADB and want to see how I can connect from my VM running on the same VPC as the ADB. I’ll use sqlcl to connect to the database, to install it you will need…
Can you believe it? Provisioning Autonomous Database in GCP!
I bet few years back folks didn’t expect that by 2024 we would be able to provision OCI resources in other clouds. Last year the announcement for Azure and this year announcements for GCP and AWS have been really exciting and I think long term they’ll have a positive impact with Oracle’s reputation also. One…
Thoughts on Oracle Database@Azure
This will NOT be a technical walkthrough on Oracle Database@Azure but rather my opinions and thoughts on how it will shape the Oracle workload destinations when migrating out from on-premises. Once I get few technical implementations under my belt, I’ll also write some more details on how I see it works and how we need…
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 with ORA-600 [kxhfmgetextent.1] (Doc ID 34455245.8). I tried few things as with dbaascli you can…
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 which I had to resolve first before getting it to work. [DBT-05514] Failed to connect…
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!