In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to create a Pure Storage FlashBlade S3 compliant Object Storage account, user and bucket. I also demonstrated how to download the MySQL airportdb database, and upload objects into the Object Store S3 bucket. In Part 2, I showed how we can use the MySQL Shell... Continue Reading →
How to Upload large files to OCI Object Storage using the AWS CLI
In this short blog post I am going to share how to upload a large file to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage using the AWS CLI to perform a concurrent multipart upload. For this post I will use a large 4GB file to demonstrate an upload. Let's start by creating a file called bigfile... Continue Reading →
How to utilize S3 Object Storage for common MySQL 8 database DBA activities – Part 1 (Setup)
In this blog post series I and going to share how a MySQL 8 DBA can utilise S3 Object Storage for common database admin activities. If you don't already have an up and running MySQL 8 database and want to follow this blog, you could check out my post How to Install MySQL 8 on... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on OKE with Portworx Essentials – Part 3
In this blog series I set out to share how to deploy the Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Cluster with Portworx storage. In Part 1 of this series I shared how to create an OKE Kubernetes Cluster. In part 2 I shared how to install and configure Portworx... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on OKE with Portworx Essentials – Part 2
In this Blog Series I am going to share how to deploy the Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Cluster with Portworx storage. In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to create an OKE Kubernetes Cluster. In this Part 2... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on OKE with Portworx Essentials – Part 1
In this 3 part blog series I am going to share how to get started with Oracle Database 23c Free Developer release on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and the Portworx Essentials forever free edition. In Part 1 will cover the creation of the OKE Cluster, Part 2... Continue Reading →
Run Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release with Podman
In this short post I will share how to run the latest Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release with Podman on MacOS. For this post I am using Podman version 4.5.1 running on macOS 13.1, which I installed using brew install podman, brew upgrade podman. We can use podman -v or podman version to check... Continue Reading →
How to migrate Oracle ASM UDEV managed disks to Oracle ASMFD (Filter Driver)
I have previously shared how to install the Oracle ADM Filter Driver (ADMFD) using the CLI and also using the Oracle Installer graphical UI. In the post I will share how to migrate existing Oracle ASM UDEV managed disks to use the newer ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD). To confirm ASM Filter Driver has already been... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database 23c Free Version Now Available to Developers
Before you check the date of the post, no it's not 1st April, and yes Oracle has just announced the very exiting news that Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release is now available for Developers. Oracle Announcement You can find out more information about Oracle Database 23c Free–Developer Release at https://www.oracle.com/database/free And read the new features and... Continue Reading →
How to Clone and run an Oracle Database in a Docker Container
During a recent conversation, I was asked How can I clone my Production Oracle 19c database, and run the database clone in a Docker container ? Great question, I hear you asking. Well, I have been talking about Docker, Kubernetes and Containerisation for many years but when I checked I had no video demonstrating how... Continue Reading →