Martin Bach

Introducing Packer: building immutable infrastructure in the cloud

After having spent a bit of time with Packer to create Vagrant base boxes it was…
Introducing Packer: building Vagrant base boxes hands-free

I have referred to Packer in some of my cloud-related presentations as an example of a…
JDBC & the Oracle Database: if you want Transparent Application Failover you need the OCI driver

This is the second article in the series of JDBC articles I’m about to publish. It…
JDBC & the Oracle Database: using Maven Central

Over the years I have written a few blog posts about Java and the Oracle database.…
Using wallets with dbca in Oracle 19c

One of the features I haven’t seen blogged about is the option to provide SYS and…
Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions for Oracle Linux 8.2

Since I can never remember how to install Virtualbox Guest Additions I thought I’d write it…
Copying a SQL Plan Baseline from one database to another

Hopefully this post saves you a few minutes looking the procedure up. I know it’ll save…
SQLDeveloper’s “mystats.sql” equivalent

It just occurred to me that I haven’t blogged about SQLDeveloper yet, something I really need…
Silent installation: Oracle Restart 19c, ASM Filter Driver, UEK 5+ edition

As promised in an earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart with ASM…
Versioning for your local Vagrant boxes: handling updates

In my last post I summarised how to enable versioning for Vagrant box outside Vagrant’s cloud.…