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I have previously shared how to run the Oracle Database 23c Free database on an X86 Mac using PodMan, you can find that blog post here. But what about Oracle 23ai and the newer M1/M2/M3 ARM based Apple silicon Macs I hear you ask, so here you go. Preparation Start by installing the Homebrew package... Continue Reading →
Background With Pure Storage Purity 6.1 we saw the arrival of file support to the family of Pure Storage FlashArrays, providing a unified block and file storage platform. In this blog post I will share how to get an Oracle database 19c up and running on a Pure Storage FlashArray using Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). Oracle... Continue Reading →
Oracle Linux Server Configuration For this blog post I will be using an Oracle Linux 8 server and a Pure Storage FlashArray to demonstrate how block volumes can be presented to an Oracle Linux 8 database server via iSCSI. Let's start by logging in as root and configuring the Linux database server to support Internet... Continue Reading →
Background As many of you may already know, I have been a long time supporter of running Oracle on NFS, having deployed many Oracle E-Business suite, single instance and RAC databases on NFS over years. However, for many Oracle DBAs NFS (Network File Systems) is still something of an unknown entity, in this post I... Continue Reading →
I recently published a blog on restricting Linux block storage IO sizes using Kernel settings, but what if you don't have root access, or want a more dynamic approach for your Oracle Database. In this blog post I am going to explore the use of multiblock read count (MBRC) on an Oracle 19c Database. Oracle... Continue Reading →
A colleague recently asked me an interesting question, How can I reduce the size of a physical IO on Linux? So here's a blog that hopefully answers that question. Linux Operating System For this blog I will be using a Linux server with a Kernel that has a default maximum size of 1280KB (if you... Continue Reading →
I have previously shared how to run the Oracle Database 23c FREE database on an X86 Mac using PodMan, you can find that blog post here. But what about the newer M1/M2 Macs I here you ask ? Well, I have just got myself and new 2023 MacBook Pro with the Apple M2 Pro ARM... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →