101 Series of Oracle in Google Cloud - Part I : Building ASM and Database

Introduction to Oracle on Google Cloud About a year ago, I worked on a project with some amazing teammates (Simon Pane ...

Troubleshooting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Automatic Backups

Background I could start this blog the same way I started this one because everything is supposed to be easy and at a 1 ...

VPN Options with Azure: Azure to Site

As business entities move some of their services to Microsoft Azure Cloud (Azure), we see hybrid networks emerge that ...

Join, Group By, and Aggregate in Cloud Data Fusion

Good news! Cloud Data Fusion is now GA. Announced at Google Next ‘19 UK on November 21, 2019, Cloud Data Fusion is a ...

Migrating SQL Server On-Premise to Azure SQL

Let’s revisit our options when moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure and check out ways to migrate on each of them. ...

Embracing the New Normal with Google Workspace - Part One

“The only thing that is constant is change.” - Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher, 535 BCE to 475 BCE While change might be ...

Installing OCI Command Line Utilities in Linux and Windows

As part of a recent project, I installed the Oracle Cloud command line utilities (oci) on the following Linux systems:

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was rewarding, too - both the ...

Azure Platform and Network Infrastructure Security fundamentals

Log buffer #561: A carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle, and MySQL.

CRS-10051: CVU found following errors with Clusterware setup

Error Statement I recently found this interesting message error in a CRS alert log from a client environment:

How to run DBSAT against Oracle RDS database

The scope of this article is to show how to run DBSAT (Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool) against an Amazon RDS ...

How to run DBSAT on RAC Instances

The scope of this article is to provide a brief summary of how to run Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) ...

AWS RDS: 5 Must-Know Actions for Oracle DBAs

Managing Oracle on AWS has some twists. Here are five daily DBA activities that have changed on AWS:

IPv6 Formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus

Does IPv6 formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus seem new to you well, it's been available since 11gR2. You're familiar with ...

Log buffer #559: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Migrating Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud - BMS

In these challenging and ever-changing times, most organizations would welcome the opportunity to reduce overhead, ...

Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

While I was in the process of determining different HA solutions for PostgreSQL, Pgpool and PgBouncer both came into ...

Image Classification with Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) With Keras

Introduction Convolutional neural networks (CNN), also known as convnets, are a popular deep learning algorithm that ...

How to create an Oracle Database Cloud service (OCI) using the command line

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, also known as the second generation cloud, offers an integrated command line utility ...

How to Connect from Cloud Functions to the Private IP Address of Cloud SQL in Google Cloud

Cloud functions allow you to run single-purpose functions without having to manage instances in Google Cloud. Cloud SQL ...

Google Cloud Composer Costs and Performance

Managing, optimizing and balancing cloud cost vs. performance is an ongoing challenge for all cloud architects and ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Costs—Part One: Budgets and Forecasting

Cost is a crucial part of selecting a cloud service provider. It’s important to understand the capabilities of ...

Consuming Tweets Using Apache Beam on Dataflow

Apache Beam is an SDK (software development kit) available for Java, Python, and Go that allows for a streamlined ETL ...

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part One

This post describes (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery with unique and other check constraints, and unit ...

AWS RDS: Read Oracle Traces from SQL*Plus

Today’s post is another dealing with AWS services. Let’s say you need to read trace files from RDS — how would you do ...