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 be in same Availability Domain, need to be in same version and use the same…
Autonomous JSON Database with Database API for MongoDB
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 well. When provisioning the database, remember to select Autonomous JSON database as DB type and…
OCI DBCS Clone from backup fails when Database Vault is enabled
Recently I was creating a DBCS database clone but the creation failed, luckily we could find out the node IPs through support and from the dcs-agent-debug.log we could see following statement failing: When looking this script what it tries to do is set the default password limits for DEFAULT profile. While trying it out on…
Series – Get your database running with Terraform part 9: Database
At this point I have created everything else apart from the database. For the database we have few options starting if we would like to have Baremetal, Virtual Machine or Exadata. In this demo I’m going to create VM single-node database but I could create it as RAC database as well with two nodes. Similar…
Series – Get your database running with Terraform part 1: Setup
One of my old colleague whom I had pleasure to work with many years ago asked recently if there would be guide on getting a database running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform using Infrastructure as Code. That led me to an idea that I could write such guide and describe each step why it’s…