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OCI Bastion Service Part II: Create Bastion Service Using OCI CLI and Terraform

Introduction In part II, and after demonstrating how to use OCI Bastion Service using the Console (see part I), we will cover how to create Bastion Service using automation tools..

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Script your RMAN Backups using Oracle External Password Store with the SYSBACKUP Privilege

As you may already know, scripting your RMAN (Oracle Recovery Manager) backups and storing your connectivity credentials in the actual scripts is not a good security practice...

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ExaCC: PDB in restricted mode and bind parameter error when applying RU SQL patch

A couple of weeks ago, I was helping out a teammate with a post-patch issue on the ExaCC. The problem was that after applying the 19.12 RU to the DB ORACLE_HOME, the PDBs were..

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Cloud Recap – My Terraform Labs in 2021

Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as a CodeArtifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found it ugly as hell and swore to..

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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Application Services Comparison

Introduction The common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (Amazon Web Services – even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it..

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Terraform for Dummies Part 5: Terraform Deployment On-Premises (KVM)

Introduction For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people don’t know is that Terraform already had private and..

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Get your Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 21c up and running in Docker – The easy Way!

In April 2017, Oracle announced supporting 12c Databases running in docker containers. However, this was limited to database deployment on Dev and Testing environments. But the..

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ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) – Simulator: Part 1

ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is an engineered machine designed for small and medium organizations to host their databases. This engineered machine enables to host databases..

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Oracle Trace File Analyzer (TFA) Upgrade to Address Log4j Vulnerability

As you are all aware, all organizations are allocating more time to address this Log4j vulnerability and every DBA/Infrastructure engineer is working on mitigating the Log4j..

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