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How to enable Multi Instance Redo Apply (MIRA) [12.2 feature]

Since 12.2, Managed Recovery Process (MRP) can be started on multiple instances, making Standby recovery much faster and making easier for the system to be kept on Sync with your Primary Database (Found thanks to this old post: http://jeyaseelan-m.blogspot.com/2018/05/mira-multi-instance-redo-apply-12cr2.html) This new feature is called MIRA (more info in following PDF https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/redo-apply-2745943.pdf) The process to enable... » read more

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Victor Torres written 4 years ago

Rolling Forward a Physical Standby using “Recover From Service” command [12.1 feature]

This is what we can see from the Oracle Doc ID 1987763.1 regarding Recover standby from Service option added in 12.1: Rolling Forward a Physical Standby Using Recover From Service Command in 12c (Doc ID 1987763.1) ========================================================================= Prior to 12c, in order to roll forward the standby database using incremental backups you would need to:... » read more

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Victor Torres written 4 years ago

Create a Kubernetes Cluster in KVM using Ansible

I have been trying to use Ansible more often and since I don’t have much idea about how Kubernetes works either I decided to learn about both at same time creating an Ansible playbook to create a Kubernetes Cluster in KVM. You can see the readme file from my GitHub with more information about the... » read more

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Victor Torres written 4 years ago

Install Oracle Database XE in Oracle Cloud Free Tier VMs

You probably already know about the Oracle cloud free tier which include Autonomous Database and 2 VMs for free forever. Something Id dint know, is that you can actually set a second (or third) database using it thanks to Oracle XE Database and couple of memory tricks. If you don’t know about Oracle XE, please... » read more

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Victor Torres written 4 years ago

Install Grafana/InfluxDB/Telegraf using Docker Compose

I used Grafana some time ago, but moved away from it, since I started other projects. Not sure exactly why, but since I rebuild my NAS and moved from FreeNAS to Openmedaivault I decided to check Grafana again and have it installed as docker containers in the new system (openmediavault is a debian based system,... » read more

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Victor Torres written 5 years ago

Using your Oracle Free Cloud to host your WordPress website

One of the advantage of the Oracle Cloud Free Tier is that you can run up to 2 VMs on it. This allows you to even have some "hosting" for some things like a web server or Rocket chat service So, just to give you an example about what is possible, lets try installing WordPress... » read more

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Victor Torres written 5 years ago

Connecting to your new Flashy Autonomous Database

By the time you are reading this, I would expect you don’t need this, and that you are already using your "Always Free Autonomous Database and Cloud Infrastructure"… if that is not the case, don’t worry, is never too late to start!! Just in case, lets have a look what you got for free, for... » read more

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Victor Torres written 5 years ago

Oracle Database AutoUpgrade now for RAC!!

I have to recognise I’m a bit of old fashion guy when it comes to get updates about new things, I still use RSS and even though twitter can replace it in some cases, I still like to do things at my own pace… What I didn’t expect to receive a notification from Mike Dietrich’s... » read more

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Victor Torres written 5 years ago

Starting with Ansible in Raspberry Pi

I have been thinking about starting to test Ansible in order to learn some of the basics, so what better way to do it in a easy to access system as a Raspberry Pi. We won’t be doing anything amazing here, just some basics processes on how to start with Ansible. Lets start!! Like I... » read more

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Victor Torres written 5 years ago