Infrastructure at your Service
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…
If you are thinking about to move your MySQL databases to the Cloud but you are still reticent, you can maybe use the “Oracle Cloud Free Tier” offer to test it.
By Franck Pachot . Announced by Larry Ellison last week, here it is: the Autonomous Data Guard. You can try it, unfortunately not on the Free Tier. First you create an Autonomous Database (ATP or ADW) and then you enable Autonomous Data Guard. You know that “Autonomous” is the marketing brand for the services that automate a lot of things, sometimes based on features that are in Oracle Database for a long time. So let’s…
Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is really OCI? OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world. These servers are not very different from the servers you probably have in your own datacenter. Some of these servers…
By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not limited in time (I still have the 11g XE I’ve created 2 years ago running there) being able to use 40% of CPU with 2GB of RAM: top – 21:53:10 up 16 min, 4 users, load average:…
In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount of services (EC2, mostly) and we have a limited amount of trainers that use the platform to deliver our trainings. When the amount of services you use is small and the amount of people managing…
When you go for AWS EC2 instances to host your PostgreSQL deployments and you want to rapidly clone PostgreSQL instances for development or testing purposes you can make use of AWS EBS snapshots. In this post we’ll look at how you can quickly spin up EC2 instances that use these snapshots as a base for new PostgreSQL clusters. Although we’ll be using the AWS console to show how this can be done you should use…
In the last post we had a look on how you can use AWS Storage Gateway as File gateway to store your PostgreSQL backups safely offsite on AWS S3. Another method of doing that would be to use “Cached Volume gateway” instead of the File gateway we used in the last post. The volume gateways does not provide access via NFS or SMB but does provide a volume over iSCSI and the on-prem machines will…
In the last post we had a quick look at AWS Kinesis data streams and how you can push data to AWS S3 using AWS Firehose. Another great AWS service is AWS Storage Gateway and in this post we’ll use that to push our PostgreSQL backups to AWS. The primary usage of AWS Storage Gateway is to extend you local storage to AWS so that you do not have to extend your local storage on…
If you followed the last two posts in this little series (here and here) this is the current status of this demo migration project: We have converted the Oracle SH schema and applied it to the target AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility instance. This worked quite well but a few objects (mostly PL/SQL procedures) would need manual actions. The next and final step is to replicate the data from Oracle to the Aurora instance using…
