Category: Oracle Cloud
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Oracle Converged Database
When one hears about the Oracle converged database, one might think that Oracle has released a new database product. However, that is not the case. It is a concept, much like this All those gadgets on the left were converged into one product, a smartphone. Another example of a product adopting the converged concept is…
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Extending OCI- Canned Queries
My previous blog posts have been about extending OCI with profiles and alias. Extending OCI – Command Alias Extending OCI – Profiles This post is about [OCI_CLI_CANNED_QUERIES] which is a section in the oci_cli_rc file. By using OCI CLI , from the prompt. I can for example list my compartment bucket. As with most OCI…
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Extending OCI- Profiles
“By default, OCI CLI looks for configuration information in etc/.oci/config. If this file is not present, it must be created manually and should contain the tenancy OCID, user OCID, default region, and authentication information.” You can also have multiple profiles for different environments. One can easily check which profile is in use with the environment variable…
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Extending OCI- Command Alias
In this post, I will demonstrate how one can create custom OCI aliases. You need to have Oracle CloudShell up and running. My previous blog post is all about that. If you love to write the same long commands over and over, this post is not for you… Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI Command makes it…
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Running SQL within Oracle Cloud Shell
Oracle Cloud Shell is a Linux virtual machine available via the OCI console. The VM comes with SQL*Plus preinstalled like many other tools like Java, Git, Python, vim, zip/unzip, and so forth. This post is about accessing SQL*Plus to your autonomous database via Oracle Cloud Shell, using Free Tier. Create an automonous database Create a…
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OCI Cloud Advisor
While learning more and more about Oracle OCI, I came across the OCI Cloud Advisor. Navigate to Governance & Administration. Cloud Advisor provides recommendations about cost management, high availability, performance, and security. Thou security recommendations requires the Cloud-Guard service. In the overview, there is one pending performance recommendation. I can then drill down to the…
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OCI Cost Transparency
The OCI console provides an interface for Billing & Cost Management. From here we can view subscriptions, invoice history, do a cost analysis breakdown(generate charts do aggregates, etc) for OCI services. This makes it a lot easier for one to understand resource consumption and what we pay for. OCI also provides “Rate Card”, if we…
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OCPU & vCPU
Oracle defines an OCPU as: “An OCPU provides CPU capacity equivalent of one physical core of an Intel Xeon processor with hyperthreading enabled. Each OCPU corresponds to two hardware execution threads, known as vCPUs.” That is the technical definition. OCPU is only available in the Oracle Cloud. In this post, I will try to explain…