Oracle has been the leader in the relational database world for over forty years – but migrations, both on-premises and to the cloud, require more effort to move workloads than many realize. Often migrations are thought of as simple lift-in-shifts, but when it comes
With Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices) running on Linux, there is a setting that needs to be configured. I you are like me, the internal firewall (firewalld) on many flavors of Linux always sneaks up on you. When installing Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices), you’ll need to open ports
When installed, Oracle GoldenGat (Microservices) will set up “services” that require a port number for access. For the first run of the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA), the assistant will create the ServiceManager (1 port) and the first deployment (5 ports). That means six ports would need
Working with a customer where we needed to move data from a Tandem (HP-UX Guardian) system up to an AWS EC2 platform that will eventually end up on an AWS MSK Cluster (Kafka). The concept is pretty straight forward; however, I will say that putting
If you are reading this post, more than likely you are either looking at Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave for the first time and trying to understand how to load your database into the HeatWave cluster. There are actually two approached to loading data into a HeatWave
Recently I’ve been playing with Oracle’s MySQL Database Service (MDS) and testing out the Heatwave option. Heatwave is very impressive and enables MySQL to run OLAP workloads within a smaller database on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Within the MySQL Database Service there are only
With every new service on any cloud platform, the need to make connections is essential .This is the case with Oracle’s new MySQL Database Service (MDS). The MySQL Database Service (MDS) is the gateway to implementing MySQL Heatwave. Understanding how to connect from on-premises to
In 2017, Oracle introduced the world to Oracle GoldenGate Microservices through the release of Oracle GoldenGate 12c (12.3.0.0.1). Upon the initial release, Oracle promoted the benefit of using the Microservices Architecture for new platforms and the ease of upgrading and patching. This document will show
I’ve been helping clients with Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices) implementation – one thing that keeps coming up is how Nginx is installed. Each environment has different approaches. I wrote how to install this on Oracle Enterprise Linux in an earlier approach. Now, I have to provide
When installed, Oracle GoldenGat (Microservices) will set up “services” that require a port number for access. For the first run of the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA), the assistant will create the ServiceManager (1 port) and the first deployment (5 ports). That means six ports would need