When doing building and validating an Oracle GoldenGate implementation, understanding the data goes a bit deeper than only using row counts between the source and target databases. Doing validations is essential to having successful GoldenGate implementation and there are a few tools out
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is widely considered the standard for monitoring an Oracle environment; including cloud platforms. Often times this monitoring platform starts off under someone’s desk than quickly balloons to more and more usage leaving the user with an environment that is
After a two year hiatus, Oracle is coming back to the conference scene with Oracle Cloud World (OCW). This year the conference will be hosted in Las Vegas, NV from Oct 17-20, 2022 and will cover a lot of topics for Oracle
Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) introduced the world to Autonomous Databases and a more automated way of thinking about managing your data. In this first-of-a-kind Autonomous database, Oracle has taken a pioneering leap into the future of database management. Through its pioneering ways, Oracle is bringing
Every now and then comes the need to update your SSH keys on a server in the cloud. Wither you are doing an general update or changing out your laptop, ssh keys need to be updated. In my case, I was changing laptops from
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
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