Script your RMAN Backups using Oracle External Password Store with the SYSBACKUP Privilege

As you may already know, scripting your RMAN backups and storing your connectivity credentials in the actual scripts is… Read more

ExaCC: PDB in restricted mode and bind parameter error when applying RU SQL patch

A couple of weeks ago, I was helping out a teammate with a post-patch issue on the ExaCC, the problem was that after applying… Read more

Zero Downtime Database Migration using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Migration Service (DMS)

When you see “Zero Downtime”, you might probably think of we are going to discuss Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) –… Read more

Extend your local NFS to Oracle Cloud using Storage Gateway with Cloud Sync

One of the biggest challenges every sysadmin faces during cloud migration is transferring a large set of on-premises data… Read more

Cloud Recap – My Terraform Labs in 2021

Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as a Code artefact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass… Read more

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Application Services Comparison

Intro The common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (Amazon Web Services – even… Read more