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Little things worth knowing: the latest public-yum-ol7.repo configuration file enables an upgrade to UEK R5

For a little while now I have been using Ansible for all installation/configuration tasks I do…
Little things worth knowing: parallel Data Pump export in table mode

I haven’t used Data Pump in a little while but recently needed to do a bit…
Installing Ansible on Oracle Linux 7 for test and development use

There are a few alternative ways of installing Ansible on Linux, and the install guide for…
Bootstrapping a VM image in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using cloud-init

At the time of writing Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers 2 ways to…
Enhanced “validate” commands in Oracle’s Data Guard Broker 18c

If you are using an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition chances are that there is at least…
Log in to Ubuntu VMs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

When I learned that Oracle was providing Ubuntu images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I was…
Terraforming the Oracle Cloud: choosing and using an image family

For a few times now I have presented about “cloud deployments done the cloud way”, sharing…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: executing related tasks together

I have recently written an ansible playbook to apply one-off patches to an Oracle Home. While…
Using colplot to visualise performance data

Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post about colplot but at that time focused on…
Running orachk as part of TFA with support tools bundle

I have previously written a number of posts about OSWatcher integration in Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) w/support…