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

by CloudDudeUncategorized July 18, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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 …

Explore Alibaba Cloud part 1: Intro to Alibaba Cloud

by CloudDudeUncategorized June 25, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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 …

Windows commands line cheat sheet for DBAs

by CloudDudeUncategorized May 15, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro We all know Windows is the preferred platform for Oracle DBAs !! I hear that every day :D. All right, maybe not so much ;). But Jokes aside, when your client has the majority of his DB workload running on windows, it’s hard to dodge the job. It becomes even more challenging to switch …

Hashicorp Terraform Associate certification takeaways

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 29, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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 …

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

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 16, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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 …

How to remote clone a PDB from a READ ONLY refreshable PDB (tips & tricks)

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 11, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro I didn’t know I had that many things to write about refreshable PDB clones, but I do like the techno and how useful it can be to application teams that want to replicate QA environments out of their prod database very quickly. After showcasing how to automate the refresh of a PDB clone using …

ExaCC dbaascli command with mysterious PILOT error when creating a PDB

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 4, 2022July 7, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro I lately had a silly error while running dbaascli on an ExaCC cluster but the java output was not helpful at all. This is a super short post that shows where to find dbaascli execution logs and also an example of what can break your command execution depending on who runs it. My error …

What they don’t tell you about refreshable PDB clones (ghost archives)

by CloudDudeUncategorized March 28, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro In my previous blog post, I showcased how to automate the refresh of a PDB clone using a DBMS scheduler job which gives a better control on the frequency, instead of relying on the minutely refresh. Handy if you don’t like keeping an automatic refresh every X minutes and rather have it run once …

OCI Bastion Service Part II: Create Bastion service using OCI CLI & Terraform

by CloudDudeUncategorized March 22, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro 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 like OCI CLI and terraform as I didn’t want all these approaches to be lumped in one post. Quick table of contents – Create …

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