Recent Posts by Brian Spendolini

On Wednesday, April 29th, we released the ability to update your Oracle database homes and GI via the OCI web console for Exadata Cloud Service customers. This has been a feature we have been working on for a long time and after multiple reviews, changes and testing, we have released it. How does it work? Good question....let me show you now. If you look on your ExaCS DB System Details page, you will see a new section (actually, a few new ones but that's for another time) called...

Updated version can be found here: https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Database/Tasks/mig-onprembackup.htm   One of the most common questions we get about our cloud is how to migrate existing databases into the Oracle Cloud. Are there tools? Is there an automated process? How difficult it is? The last comment is always the one that catches you...how difficult is it. It assumes that its going to be hard; that the process has so many pitfalls that its just an impossible...

Exadata Cloud at Customer Product Management is pleased to announce immediate availability of Exadata Cloud at Customer release 18.1.4.4. This release follows release 18.1.4.2, introduced in October, and together they include important new features that provide improved management experience and better control over resource utilization. For complete information, please see the Exadata Cloud at Customer documentation. This post covers the highlights of each release, and then...

Building on the previous blog entry by Gurmeet (Exadata Snapshots: Simple, Secure, Space Efficient), we are going to see how we can create snapshots in the Exadata Cloud.  Snapshot PDBs With the Exadata Cloud (Cloud Service and Cloud at Customer) we have two ways to create snapshots on our services. The first method is via SQL plus and works exactly like what was shown in the previous blog post. You need to have created a SPARSE disk group when you initially provisioned the...

We are excited to announce general availability of the latest update for Exadata Cloud at Customer.  This new release (18.1.4) brings customers some of their most requested features—features that unlock Exadata Cloud at Customer’s true potential as a database consolidation platform. The key features in this release include:  Support for multiple VM Clusters in a single Exadata Machine Network isolation between the VM Clusters Shared Oracle Homes Snapshots and Sparse Clones for...

Not every company can own and staff a data center; there is alot involved. So where can you turn if you need the highest-performing and most available infrastructure for running Oracle Database? Well the Exadata Cloud Service of course.  Now while we can have a bit of fun with the beginning of this post, it bring some honesty as well. A good majority of our Exadata Cloud Service customers are new to Exadata. They have never owned one on premises and are able to start their...

As a proof of concept this morning, I decided to remove APEX from the CDB and install it in a PDB so see what works/breaks after the fact. (used a brand new, just created DBaaS instance with a 16.1.3 or 16.1.5 DBaaS version label) Here is what I did....and some of the steps might be redundant. 1st step, stop glassfish...used dbaascli glassfish stop as the oracle user.  For APEX, I started by getting the APEX 5.0.3 patch from support.oracle.com  and installed that into the CDB. I...

Some of you might have seen this error upon logging into your DBaaS instance over the past few days. We have a pretty easy solution for you that fixes this issue.  Just run the following as oracle or opc Now the above is an image because the blog software hates the word w-get... but the URL is: w get https://storage.us2.oraclecloud.com/v1/dbcsswlibp-usoracle29538/dbaas_patch/dbcs_libopc_patch (just remove the space between w and get)  the chmod code is  chmod plusx...

Some special characters in your OSS password could cause the backup configuration to fail when creating a Oracle Database Cloud Service (Database as a Service) instance if you specify Both Cloud Storage and Block Storage as the Backup Destination. Such failures occur when configuring bkup assistant, during the “Configuring Oracle Database Server” phase. The log for these failures includes an error message that begins with the text “SCRIPT execution errors”.To circumvent this...