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…
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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 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…
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…
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…