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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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