Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – A short Blog Post about a secure and small Development Setup
For an internal project I had the pleasure to setup a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment for an APEX development team. Here is a short overview about the setup. Requirements VPN Access from everywhere – 2 people are working maximal at same time on the…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Safe – How to burn down 201.44 Swiss Francs in 30 Seconds…
Is Data Safe really for free? In the last autumn, the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure feature called Data Safe was released. For sure, new features has to be tested. I have tested the Data Safe feature too and added a cloud database to Data Safe….
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic Object Storage – Cleanup Day with FTM CLI
Yesterday I decided to cleanup old Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic objects. There were a lot of files lying around in the Object Storage of a project from 2018. Cleaning up these files in the OCI console was no option, they can only be deleted one…
Oracle Release Update 19.9 – Lab Update Time (Grid Infrastructure Standalone & RDBMS)
The Oracle Release update 19.9 for Linux is available since a few days. Time to upgrade my lab environment at home which consists of the following components: Oracle Grid Infrastructure Standalone 19.8.0 with ASM Normal Redundancy – +ASM Oracle 19.8.0 RDBMS as Repository for Oracle…
Let’s IPSec VPN – How to connect your Unifi Security Gateway to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When I connect from home to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure normally I used a Bastion Host, an Open VPN compute instance or Public IPs. Some of the cool stuff like MV2OCI (which transfers data from on-premises to OCI) or integration of an ADB instance in…
Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c – My Oracle Support is back!
Since a few weeks, the online connection in Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c to My Oracle Support was broken. This resulted in errors like Error occurred when sending request to My Oracle Support, for example when you tried to set the My…Read more
Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c – My Oracle Support is back!
Since a few weeks, the online connection in Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c to My Oracle Support was broken. This resulted in errors like Error occurred when sending request to My Oracle Support, for example when you tried to set the My…Read more
MV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Auto Operation
In the previous blog post MV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Step by Step I wrote about the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tool to transfer local data into Autonomous Databases step by step. There you see how to install…
DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117 apply fails – catconInit failed, exiting
Last weekend was patchday. The goal was to apply the patch 24732082 (DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117) to a 12.1.0.2 database on AIX. The OPatch precheck returned no error and OPatch apply was ok. The problem was the post step, the datapatch command failed with…
Oracle Data Pump with the 12.2.0.1.0 Instant Client for Linux x86-64
From the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) New Features Guide: Adding Oracle Data Pump and SQL*Loader Utilities to Instant Client This feature adds SQL*Loader, expdp, impdp, exp, and imp to the tools for instant client. Now you can run these utilities on machines that…