In an Oracle Database, the Online Redo Log is a physical structure consisting of a minimum of two files, which can, in turn, be multiplexed into two or more identical copies. These identical copies are known as members of a Redo Log group. As mentioned, the Online Redo ...
The definition of an instance is simple and basic: it is a set of memory structures that manage the database files. When the instance starts, background processes such as LGWR, PMON, etc., also start.
It’s important to know that at least one active or running ...
I had a chat a couple of weeks ago with my mentor on how we are the last of our species that know and drilled down on understanding how the Oracle Database works, so here I am doing a series of blog posts going back to ...
Back at OCW 2022, Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO said : Moving slowly can be risky, no time play it safe – the winners will be those that make BOLD moves. I think this phrase still holds true and with even more weight to it than before. With the ...
Last week, Oracle Exadata Exascale was released, and it is one of the features that I have been most excited about in a while. I will be writing a couple of blogs around the topic, and in them we will go how to deploy it and technically deep ...
In this third blog post series , we will be creating 4 main compartments
The compartments above are based on the CIS Foundation Architecture, which is an architecture that starts with the compartment design for the tenancy along with groups and policies for segregation ...
In my previous post, I talked about the setup of Terraform and a primer on what it is. In this blog post I will create a simple resource in OCI.
One of the things that I will note, is that in this day and age, Terraform (TF) is ...
I haven’t written a blog in a while, and I feel that I have made a couple of mistakes lately that could have easily been avoided if I had done my tasks as IaC ( Infrastructure as Code). So I will start a series of IaC and Terraform. ...
Migrating an on-premise database to the cloud within a limited timeframe can be a challenging endeavour. I had a High Ed client that put us to the challenge of migrating their Dev/QA and Prod environments to an Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) environment in under six weeks. In this blog ...
OCI CLI is a great tool to have at your disposal, but one problem that starts to happen as you begin to deal with several clients is that you need to change the config file in your ~/.oci directory or set the environment variable OCI_CLI_RC_FILE ( which in ...
This blog post will be a short one, but I think it is very useful when scaling your resources in an ExaCC environment.
The first thing I do is find out how much memory the VM Cluster has, which in my case it is 1900 GB.
This week I got a new Exadata Cloud@Customer X9-M quarter rack, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to showcase how to create a VM Cluster Network using OCI CLI. I am currently using version 3.25.3.
The first thing to do is to create the JSON template
In this next installment of the Back To Cloud Basics series, I will show how to do the same exercise as my previous post via GUI with Identity Domains.
The first thing we will do is create a compartment.
Continuing on the series Back To Cloud Basics, I will now create a compartment, user, group and a policy for this group using OCI CLI.
The first thing that we should do is set up OCI CLI. I won’t go into this blog post on how to set ...
The first day I decided to create my very first blog post, I decided that it would be oriented towards people either in their first steps of the tech I was writing or wanting to learn a new technology. So this series of blog posts is for those ...