Martin Bach
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Learning about Kubernetes: JDBC database connectivity to an Oracle database
In the past few months I have spent some time trying to better understand Kubernetes and…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: provision multiple machines in parallel with Vagrant and Ansible
Vagrant is a great tool that I’m regularly using for building playground environments on my laptop.…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: testing and debugging Ansible scripts using Vagrant
At last year’s UKOUG I presented about Vagrant and how to use this great piece of…
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Using dbca to create a physical standby database
While investigating new options I discovered with dbca for the previous article I noticed that it’s…
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dbca now makes it easy to configure OMF on file systems
Up until – and including – Oracle 12.1 I always found it not-quite-so-straight-forward to create a…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: understanding your Ansible configuration
When writing automation scripts I tend to use a local Ansible configuration file. This has certain…
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Oracle Linux 7 and a new YUM configuration since January 2019
For quite some time I used to have a configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol7.repo managing my package sources…
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Building your own local Oracle Linux 7 Vagrant base box
I have been talking about Vagrant for a long time and use it extensively on my…
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Making some more sense of direct path reads during primary key lookups
After having published my first article of 2019 I have received feedback I felt like including.…
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Making sense of direct path reads during primary key lookups
I recently made an interesting observation while monitoring database performance on an Oracle Enterprise Edition system.…
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