Since September 2025, Oracle Base Database Service offers a new edition: Developer – or better: Enterprise Edition Developer. For those who need OS-level access to the database system for file transfers, SYSDBA or other administrative permissions, local database exports, or more than one tablespace (unlike Autonomous Database Shared) – the Base Database Service covers it all. No PDB count limitation of 3, Enterprise Features included. And the best part: License included! You only pay for the underlying resources like storage. Technical documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/base-database/about/index.html#GUID-1DF6ECD3-A865-47B4-9C18-0D307113A507 Important note: This edition is not recommended for production. It fit’s best for development and testing. But why? There are some technical Limitations Supported Oracle Versions Provisioning The path to provisioning a Base Database Service is straightforward:…
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Read MoreThe Grafana Plugins for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring are back!
In September 2019 I wrote a blog post how to monitor an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous database with Grafana plugin oci-datasource. But some weeks after publication, the plugin was not available on the Grafana page anymore. And only Oracle and Grafana had a clue why. Now everything will be fine now. Since the 6th of October, there are two new Grafana plugins available for download. They both don’t require a Grafana enterprise account. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Metrics Data Source Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging Data Source The first one is a successor of the former oci-datasource plugin, the second allows to get logs from OCI resources like Compute or Storage. As an infrastructure guy, let’s install the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Metrics…
Read MoreMonitor your Oracle Cloud Free Tier with Grafana on Oracle Linux 8
In a previous blog post I wrote about monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components by Grafana. In the meantime, we got the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Here is an updated version. This blog post shows you how to install and configure the Grafana plugin based on the Oracle blog entry https://blogs.oracle.com/cloudnative/data-source-grafana on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 server. Steps to monitor the Oracle Cloud Free Tier by the OCI Grafana Plugin Install and configure the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI – by download or by YUM install Configure Group, User and Policy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console Install Grafana and the OCI Plugin Configure the Grafana DataSource Create a new Dashboard with OCI Metrics Machine Requirements The server needs access to the internet.…
Read MoreOracle Database Backup Service – Encrypt your 12.2 Database Backups to the Cloud
The Oracle RMAN backup encryption is necessary if you want to backup your database into the Oracle cloud. In Oracle 12c, you have three methods available to encrypt an Oracle RMAN backup: with a passphrase with a master encryption key hybrid with a passphrase and an encryption key On docs.oracle.com, the basic setup is described here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/db-backup-cloud/csdbb/configuring-encryption-backups.html#GUID-4A1F5CF5-7EAF-4D71-9B7F-B46412F552CE In this blog post, I show you how to configure your database environment with a master encryption key and a keystore. I use this solution to to backup and recovery to and into the Oracle cloud. And in the cloud, I don’t like to type in passwords manually for every action or write passwords in backup and restore scripts. There are also some…
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