In the last post I published the strange results I had when testing physical I/O with the latest Spectre and Meltdown patches. There is the logical I/O with SLOB cached reads.
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The Spectre and Meltdown is now in the latest Oracle UEK kernel, after updating it with ‘yum update': [opc@PTI ~]$ rpm -q –changelog kernel-uek | awk ‘/CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754/{print $NF}’ | sort | uniq -c 43 {CVE-2017-5715} 16 {CVE-2017-5753} 71 {CVE-2017-5754} As I did on the previous post on AWS, I’ve run quick tests on the Oracle Public Cloud.
The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting to prepare a VM on my laptop and move it to the Cloud to get it accessible from everywhere. Here’s my first try. In my opinion, it’s idea but probably need further evolution.
In this blog post, we will see how to manage Oracle Public Cloud Big Data service Compute Edition with REST API. Scheduling the start/stop/restart of a metered PaaS in the Oracle Cloud can be interesting for managing efficiently the consumption of your cloud credits. We should first have a look at the official documentation so as to understand what the API is composed of. https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/big-data-compute-cloud/csbdp/QuickStart.html Use the following URL composition to get access to REST endpoint: https://region-prefix.oraclecloud.com/resource-path According…
There are currently a lot of new buzz words and re-namings which suggest that our DBA role is changing, most of them escorted with a #cloud hashtag. Oracle Technology Network is now called Oracle Developer Community. Larry Ellison announced the database that does not need to be operated by humans. And people talking about the death of DBA, about the future of DBA, about DBA 3.0,… Those are all generalizations and universal statements, and I…
With metered cloud services, keeping all your instances running may become expensive. The goal is to start them only when you need them. Here is a script that stops all instances you have on the Oracle Cloud Service PaaS. You can schedule it for example to stop them at the end of the business day, or when they are not active for a long time. The scripts use the REST API called with curl, JSON…
For the last conference day, after the Keynote about “JavaScript: The next Language YOU should learn” by Dan McGhan , I decided to attend presentations on following topics: – Upgrade your APEX app with zero downtime by using EBR – Understand and make use of CSS(3) – Best Practices for APEX Administrators – APEX Version Control and Team Working – Database Cloud Services with APEX – Date, Time, Calendar and Co with APEX I also…
When it comes to choose a cloud instance to run Oracle Database, you want to be able to run your workload on the minimum CPU cores. This is why in a previous post I measured how many logical reads per seconds can be achieved with a SLOB workload, on AWS which is often the first considered, and will probably do it on Azure in the future. I did the same on the Oracle Cloud which…
In the Oracle Public Cloud, fast provisioning gets all its meaning when creating a RAC database service: in one hour you can get an operational highly available multitenant database. You can even create it in Data Guard for Disaster Recovery. Now, Oracle is pushing ACFS to store the datafiles rather than direct ASM. Especially in multitenant because a great feature is thin cloning: CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE AS SNAPSHOT COPY. However, I encountered an error when…
In the latest post I’ve run a cached SLOB workload on Oracle Cloud IaaS to measure logical reads per seconds on a system covered by 2 processor licences (so 4 OCPs). Just as a comparison, here is the same on Oracle PaaS database as a service.