Creating a Gold Image of an Oracle Home with runInstaller -createGoldImage can leak sensitive information about the source environment! Learn how to identify and eliminate the risks!
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Run Oracle 23c On-Premises NOW
Oracle Database 23c is currently only available on OCI Base Database Service, but that doesn’t mean you need to wait to run in locally!
Create a Fast-Start Failover Observer Service on Linux
Learn how to use native Linux services to manage Observers in Data Guard Fast-Start Failover configurations, and build more durable, reliable, and simple solutions than scripting alone!
Automate My Oracle Support Patch Downloads with curl
Several blog posts describe how to authenticate with My Oracle Support and download patches. Unfortunately, some rely on manual authentication with MOS on one host to generate the cookie file, then copy the cookie to the automation machine. I needed a fully-automated solution that used curl.
Loading Fixed Width Data into ATP/ADW with DBMS_CLOUD
AKA “The Definitive (and perhaps only) Guide to Loading Fixed-Width Data Into an Autonomous Database using DBMS_CLOUD”
Oracle 19c rpm Install on OCI Free Compute Instance
Installing Oracle 18c/19c on the OCI free tier using a compute instance? Want to install a sample database using the automatic configuration tool? It will produce a DBT-11205 warning for an undersized shared pool. How do you get around it?
The Importance of Monitoring inodes in OCI
Due to the nature of OCI’s logging mechanisms, you’re more likely to run out of inodes than space. A brief look at Oracle Cloud logging internals and some tips for maintenance.
Connect to Oracle Cloud with SSH and VNC
If you’ve new to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, one of the first tasks is to connect to the hosts you’ve created in OCI. In this post I’ll cover two methods for connecting via SSH, and how to create a VNC connection.