Linux

Putty-like SSH port forwarding on Linux and MacOS

As a Linux or Mac user you benefit from a very useful, built-in terminal and SSH…
Installing Podman on Oracle Linux 8

Rather than having to use a search engine to read up on how to install podman…
Generating Table DDL in Oracle Database

Generating table DDL is a common requirement. Unfortunately it’s not quite common enough for me to…
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.…
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…
Resolving slight niggles of Enterprise Manager Express 19c

This page, should I remember I wrote it, hopefully addresses the slight niggles I have with…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: mdadm (aka Software) RAID

The final part of my “avoiding pitfalls with Linux Logical Volume Manager” (LVM) series considers software…
Building a Debian 11 Vagrant Box using Packer and Ansible

Sometimes it might be necessary to create one’s own Vagrant base box for reasons too numerous…