Infrastructure at your Service
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.
The Oracle PDBaaS is for database developers. And database developers may need to trace what happens with their queries: SQL trace and Optimizer trace. Let’s see what we can do on Exadata Express Cloud Service
In Oracle Public Cloud, Transparent Data Encryption is not an option. You can use it because it is included in all database services for all editions. You have to use it because the database won’t allow you to create, or import, non encrypted tablespaces. This is controlled by a new parameter, encrypt_new_tablespaces, which defaults to CLOUD_ONLY;
The separation of roles between system DBA and application DBA is the way to go for agile development and the PDBaaS managed service is an excellent way to play with this concept: You are PDB administrator but not the CDB administrator. Here is an example about tablespace creation/deletion, and the kind of problems that may arise with this architecture.
The Exadata Express Cloud Service is a managed PDBaaS: Oracle is the system admin and the CDB database administrator, you are the PDB administrator. You connect with a local user, PDB_ADMIN, which is no SYSDBA privilege but has a PDB_DBA which has nearly all DBA rights, but with some features disabled by lockdown profile. I have no worry about the performance on this service: it is an Exadata X5 half rack bare metal (my guess),…
Oracle Database licensing can be based on two metrics: Processor or Named User Plus (NUP). NUP also necessitate to count the processors because there is a minimum number of NUP per processor. Then it is very important to know how to count processors. The time where a machine had 1 socket with 1 processor with 1 chip with 1 core running 1 thread is really old past. Today, we have physical machines with multi-core processors,…
