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
With any type of replication configuration or replication tool, primary purpose is to move the data as transactions are committed between databases. Any of the tools on the market are great for replicating data, but where replication starts to become interesting is when the metadata
A couple of weeks ago Oracle released Oracle GoldenGate Service (aka. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service)(GGS). This is the OCI version of Oracle GoldenGate and is mostly the Oracle GoldenGate Microservices platform once built. As with all OCI items, you can login to the Oracle Cloud
Like many others I’m normally using Oracle Virtual Box (vbox) for my development environments; however in the last few weeks I’ve been making the switch over to OCI for my Oracle work and other clouds for PostgreSQL or what nots. In building out these resources,
When developing with Terraform it is nice to keep everything local on your laptop. Makes for great ease of development; there are time when you want to share your environment, i.e. state file, with others in your development organization. In order to do this, the
Over the last couple of posts, we’ve been showing how to use the OCI provider and upgrading the associated OCI modules. In this post, we’ll show you how to use the OCI modules that were upgraded to build OCI compute node(s) through code. The node(s)
Automation is all the rage now; yet I’ve though automation has been the key to a lot of improvements over the years. Part of any automation process is to make the process simple to use and repeatable. When you start looking at cloud platforms the
Over the last few months, I’ve been working to convert my skills from a core DBA/Replication specialist into a from dynamic DevOps persona. Part of this is looking at all of the cloud providers out there and getting an understanding of what is going on