Martin Bach

Avoid “Warning: Additional provider information from registry” for OCI Terraform Provider

After updating my main development workstation to Fedora 36 including all the tools I regularly use…
Generating Table DDL in Oracle Database

Generating table DDL is a common requirement. Unfortunately it’s not quite common enough for me to…
Retrieving passwords from OCI Vault for use in Terraform

This post is written with the intention to complement the excellent “A comprehensive guide to managing…
Linking Containers with Podman

Users of the Docker engine might find that their container runtime isn’t featured prominently in Oracle…
Vagrant: mapping a Virtualbox VM to a Vagrant environment

This is a small post hopefully saving you a few minutes mapping Vagrant and VirtualBox environments.…
DOAG 2021 gems: DBMS_XPLAN.COMPARE_PLANS

The most excellent #DOAG2021 conference ended last week. I have attended quite a few presentations and…
Configuring a VM using Ansible via the OCI Bastion Service

In my previous post I wrote about the creation of a Bastion Service using Terraform. As…
Create an OCI bastion service via Terraform

Maintaining bastion hosts (a “jump box” or other network entry point directly exposed to the Internet)…
The performance story that didn’t turn out as one: a case of or-expansion and how the database mitigated the problem on its own

Recently I had a bit of time to study the effect of an optimizer query transformation,…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Over the past month I wrote a few posts about deploying I/O intensive workloads in the…