Hashicorp Terraform Associate certification takeaways

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

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)

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

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 …