Intro First, before anyone starts sending me print screens about their successful Autoupgrade, or flexing about how their 100+ databases were smoothly migrated to PDBs over the weekend, I am stopping you right there. This is my honest feedback on the experience I had when trying the tool on a windows environment. It is obviously …
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Intro One of the advantages of Oracle grid Infrastructure is to restart all managed resources (databases, asm, listeners,β¦etc) automatically whenever you (re)start the cluster service (crs) or reboot the whole server. I recently had to patch an oda where the client still had few listeners (with non default ports) managed locally and not through grid. …
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Intro Infrastructure teams are usually more keen to maintain a network stability rather than altering their existing configuration every other day.This means that once the application and database hosts are provisioned and running, the DBA won’t witness a topology change unless a migration of the servers/applications are in the pipes. But for highly available environment …
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Intro Azure cli was another tool I had to try right after passing Az-900 azure certification, because what are certifications for if itβs not to give a little itching to get your hands a little dirty. Thus, az-cli became my third victim after oci-cli and aws-cli. As in my previous cli tutorials, the aim …
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Today we will see how easy Microsoft has made it to install azure CLI which is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that manages azure Cloud resources. In previous posts I explored the installation for the CLI software of both Oracle and AWS, I have to say that Azure CLI is by far the simplest …