While Oracle Databases rock, having the right skill-set to manage them might be a bigger struggle. The Oracle Autonomous Database is for that reason becoming more and more popular, as this database is fully managed and optimized by Oracle’s AI system. Often to use a type is Database is dictated by the application. Does the… Read More »
Want to make sure your data is redundant in more than one region? This is now possible 🙂 You can create a Replication Policy on a bucket and have it automatically replicate object to an other bucket in the same or different region. And you can now setup (active) Data Guard across regions for your… Read More »
YES! APEX is available on the Autonomous Database!!! In case you have been living under some rock; APEX is Oracle’s awesome Low Code development platform. You can extremely easily build simple web applications that look awesome, support all the latest HTML technologies without doing too much. If you want to build more complex things, no… Read More »
This week you can find the updated version of my OCI iPhone Manager App in the app store. Besides supporting the newly opened regions for OCI and some bug fixes, it now also supports easily starting, stopping and resetting your DB VMs. (the DB node). When you stop a DB node, the actual billing stops… Read More »
As most people know, an Oracle Database license is not really cheap 😉 On-premise you have to buy licenses for each server, no matter how long that server is actually running. In the Oracle Cloud this is NOT the case! With the Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) you can have the Database license included in… Read More »
Last week I released a script that allows you to schedule the scaling of an Oracle Database running on the baremetal cloud instances. That script was designed to run inside the actual Database instance. The new Oracle Autonomous services do not allow you to do this, as these are fully managed platforms by Oracle, so… Read More »
While running Database servers cost money in power and cooling, a much bigger cost is the licensing cost of the Oracle Database software. In your own environment this might be considered a fixed cost, in the Oracle Cloud this does not have to be the case at all. When you spin up a bare-metal Database… Read More »