In this cloud-era it’s almost weird to explore stuff on-premises, but I did…. In this case a slightly Higher Availibility configuration of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) that doesn’t cost anything, is not disruptive to the existing configuration and gives a tiny bit more confidence during patching of OEM : Always […]
Installing software in a Citrix-environment is sometimes a hassle. You have to handover the software, installation- and test-documentation to the scripters and hope for the best. In this case I handed over SQLDeveloper 19.4 as a pretty default installation, very simple and scripting for Citrix is is not that hard […]
What has Oracle to do with motorcycles? At first sight: nothing at all! Except I’m a motor rider myself and I’m doing something with databases. But, inspired by a motorcycle-vlogger I made a mental connection between those area’s, where motorcycles can be replaced by cars or any other luxury goods […]
As most of us know, Oracle Database 19c now supports up to 3 pluggable databases (PDBs) per container database (CDB) without requiring additional multitenant license—applicable for both Standard Edition (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). This documentation clearly states: “For all offerings, if you are not licensed for Oracle Multitenant, […]
At an assignment I got curious about ways of centralizing (Oracle related) logging, like alert-listener and middleware logging. One way of dealing with this is the Elasticsearch stack (ELK), with Filebeat, Logstash, Kibana and Elasticsearch. So…. I wanted to explore a bit more, and want to have a server with […]
A few months ago I wanted to play with Kubernetes, and it should look like the real world. A cluster with a master and several worker nodes. This can be done in the various clouds, but this probably costs money, so why not use VirtualBoxes with Vagrant? And I know […]
Recently I attended a webinar about Oracle virtualization, given by Oracle Linux – product management.
A few highlights of this webinar:
During a recent presentation of Richard Garsthagen (Director Cloud Business Development at Oracle EMEA) the existence of a mobile app was mentioned: the OCI Manager. Moreover, Richard appeared to be the creator of this app. With the app, you should be able to manage some basic functionalities in your Oracle […]
Scaling is one of the great benefits of the Cloud: scale up when there’s a peak in workload, scale down when it’s quiet. And scaling the PaaS databases, like the autonomous database in Oracle Cloud, is just one click away, and very easy to perform. But vertical scaling (more CPU/memory […]
