ZDM installation error in Oracle Linux 8 (Failed to initialize MySQL) & how to fix it

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Intro Zero downtime migration (ZDM) is one of the best option available to migrate your Oracle database to Oracle Cloud. Automation and simplicity are among its strong benefits beside zero downtime feature. Although migrating in OCI is the classic use case(see Oracle migration & integration specialist certification), I had the chance to try a different …

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Explore Alibaba Cloud part 1: Intro to Alibaba Cloud

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Intro I always believed in the horizontal approach to learn the cloud rather than the vertical method. I’m just convinced there is more to learn when you open your perspectives, even if you lose the ability to narrow your expertise on one platform. That’s a little price to pay if you want to broaden your …

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Hashicorp Terraform Associate certification takeaways

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Intro The thing we usually forget when completing a certification is to save a mental image of the topics that were exciting to learn or the concepts that we had no clue about right before starting the preparation. This is what practitioners should focus on after every major Cloud cert exam, as it provides an …

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Terraform for dummies part 6: Deploy Oracle DB System 21c using terraform

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Intro What’s the point of moving a database to the Cloud if we can’t automatically deploy it. After blogging about web compute provisioning on AWS,OCI, Azure, & GCP using terraform. The least I could do as a (future-ex) DBA is to terraform database provisioning in Oracle Cloud. On top of that, I also wanted to …

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