Introduction Enabling Oracle Data Guard in Oracle Cloud is a matter of a few clicks in the Cloud Console. However, many customers prefer to manage their resource provisioning in an automated way using Terraform, OCI CLI, SDKs, or REST API for more consistency and efficiency. Providing the correct values in the OCI CLI command to…
Introduction Oracle Cloud Object Storage is a regional service, i.e., objects are stored in a specific Oracle Cloud region. You can enable cross-region replication to automatically sync your data to a remote region for redundancy, providing protection from a regional outage. This blog post describes how to configure cross-region replication, use the replicated Object Storage…
Starting with four commercial regions, Oracle Cloud has grown to 36 commercial regions in the last few years. And more to come. Additional services and features are being continuously released. In 2022, there were 462 new release notes. This is more than one release note per day. Oracle Databases in OCI got 42 release notes.…
Update October 2023: For Oracle Linux 8, have a look at OCIFS and install the OCIFS Utility documentation. Introduction Mounting an Object Storage bucket as a local file system simplifies file management and provides you with additional cost-efficient storage space that can be used as if it were on the local server. Once the bucket…
Introduction Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Command Line Interface (CLI) is a small-footprint tool that lets you create and manage resources in Oracle Cloud using a command line interface. It enables you to automate tasks and makes things easier. The Quickstart documentation provides quick installation instructions. However, installations via RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) on Base…
Introduction Oracle constantly introduces new Exadata Platforms providing higher performance, lower latency, extended storage, and optimized software and networking. The latest Exadata X9M generation is available on-premises, cloud@customer, and public cloud. AND, it comes at the same price as the previous generation!!! It is as simple as this: higher performance + same price = reduced…
Introduction Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is evolving every day! New features are being released, existing ones are being extended, and new data centers are being launched. More automation, more flexibility, and more capabilities to provide a better user experience, higher availability, and increased security to Oracle’s customers and partners. One frequently asked question is where…
Introduction Oracle Databases in Oracle Cloud use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) by default to protect data at rest. The default configuration “Oracle-Managed Keys” stores the master encryption keys in a wallet file locally on the database servers. Now, Oracle also supports the integration with the OCI Vault Service for VM DB Systems, where you are able…
Introduction The Oracle Cloud Events Service enables you to execute actions automatically based on state changes of your cloud resources. For example, a state change could be when the creation of the database is completed. An action could be sending an email notification or executing a function to implement post-creation tasks like creating users. If…
Introduction Oracle Cloud provides you the option to enable automatic backups with the click of a button. In case you have different backup requirements, you still have the flexibility to create your manual backup configurations and create your backups via command-line tools or directly using RMAN. This applies to VM DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service,…
Database Heartbeat 