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By Franck Pachot . Statistically, my blog posts starting with a single SQL keyword (like COMMIT and ROLLBACK) in the title are not fully technical ones, but about moves. Same here. It is more about community engagement, people sharing. And about a friend. And clusters of course… In 2020 because of this COVID virus, we try to avoid clusters of people. And everybody suffers from that in the community because we have no, or very…
By Franck Pachot . My first attempt to connect to an Oracle database from a Jupyter Notebook on Google Colab was about one year ago: https://medium.com/@FranckPachot/a-jupyter-notebook-on-google-collab-to-connect-to-the-oracle-cloud-atp-5e88b12282b0 I’m currently preparing a notebook as a handout from my coming SQL101 presentation where I start with some NoSQL to discover the benefits of RDBMS and SQL. I’m running everything on the Oracle Database because it provides all APIs (NoSQL-like key-value, with SODA, documents with OSON, and of course…
By Franck Pachot . I may have mentioned in some previous blog post that, in my opinion, the names of Oracle Database features make sense on the vendor product management context more than in a user context. I’m not saying that it is good or bad. There are so many features, that can be combined, and that evolved for many years. The possible use cases is unlimited. What I see customers doing in Europe is…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve written a blog post about serverless databases and here is an example of Amazon RDS Aurora PostgreSQL in serverless mode: When I’ve created the instance (15:55 – CloudWatch is GMT+2 but event log is UTC), it started with 0 capacity unit (18:03), which means that it was paused (you pay for storage only). Then I connected and the instance was resumed (18:19) to its maximum capacity unit (4 here). And…
By Franck Pachot . When I’m writing about a product I like to be precise about the name, the upper and lower case, and even more: do you know that was taking special care of writing Oracle 12cR2 before then non-italic came with 18c? And that’s also the reason I’m not writing a lot about VMware as it takes me 5 minutes to put the uppercase right 😀 You may have seen that many Amazon…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve always been working with databases. Before the cloud era, the most abstract term was “data”. A variable in memory is data. A file is data. A block of disk contains data. We often created a ‘/data’ directory to put everything that is not binaries and configuration files. I’ll always remember when I did that while working in Dakar. My colleagues were laughing for minutes – my Senegalese followers will understand…
By Franck Pachot . There are many NoSQL databases. And, because SQL is an ISO standard, “No SQL” also means “No Standard”. Many have a similar API and similar objects, but with completely different names. Today, NoSQL databases are used as an additional datastore for some well-defined use cases for which a hashed key-value store fits better than a relational table. And it quickly became “Not Only SQL” as it is complementary to RDBMS databases…
By Franck Pachot . On my Oracle Cloud Free Tier Autonomous Transaction Processing service, a database that can be used for free with no time limit, I have seen this strange activity. As I’m running nothing scheduled, I was surprised by this pattern and looked at it by curiosity. And I got the idea to take some screenshot to show you how I look at those things. The easiest performance tool available in the Autonomous…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I’ve installed SQL Server on the Oracle Cloud. My goal was actually to have a look at Redgate SQL Clone, a product that automates thin cloning. The SQL Server from the Oracle marketplace is ok for SQL Clone prerequisites. There’s a little difference in .NET Framework version (I have 4.6 where 4.7.2 or later is required but that’s fine – if it was not an update…
By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle Cloud -> Marketplace -> Application -> Category -> Database management You have multiple flavors. I’ve chosen the lastest cheaper “Microsoft SQL 2016 Standard with Windows Server 2016 Standard” Select the compartment and “Launch Instance” Choose a name, and the network…
