A few months ago I came into possession of two Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S. How did that happen? A migration project that I was assisting with was completely cancelled due to the takeover of the company and the new organization had no interest in Oracle hardware and software. They kindly gave me the two machines free of charge. Here they are: Both ODAs have no valid Customer Support Identifier (CSI), there is no current contract. We all know that without a CSI there is no support and therefore no Oracle software. As far as I know, there is no license clause that allows the operation of Oracle hardware and software without a license, even if only for training purposes (if…
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DOAG Konferenz 2024: Ein Rückblick auf vier intensive Tage in Nürnberg
Vom 19. bis zum 22. November 2024 war Nürnberg einmal mehr der Treffpunkt für Oracle-Experten, Anwender und Partner. Aber nicht nur Oracle war Thema, auch PostgreSQL, Soft Skills und vieles mehr stand auf der Agenda. Die DOAG Konferenz bot auch in diesem Jahr eine Plattform, um Wissen auszutauschen, neue Entwicklungen zu präsentieren und Kontakte zu knüpfen. Ich hatte die Ehre, selbst mit vier Vorträgen vertreten zu sein und meine Erfahrungen rund um Themen wie Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security, Automation mit Oracle Linux Automation Manager, sowie Red Hat Ansible Automation zu teilen. Meine Vorträge und Highlights Es ist immer ein besonderes Erlebnis, vor einem grossen Publikum zu sprechen, und die Sessions in den gut gefüllten Räumen haben gezeigt, dass das Interesse…
Read MoreWindows Podman & Oracle Container Registry & VS Code – What a Match!
Introduction Podman utilizes a daemonless architecture to run Linux containers on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), providing full Linux kernel compatibility and high performance. Podman Desktop offers a graphical interface for managing containers and images, enhancing usability by integrating seamlessly with WSL2’s capabilities. This combination delivers a powerful container management solution for Windows users, leveraging the strength of Linux containers directly within a Windows environment. Together with the Oracle provided images on the container registry and the very popular Visual Studio Code, you get a powerful platform for Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Development. Installation Install and Setup Podman Desktop for Windows & Podman For Windows, several install methods like Silent Windows installer, Chocolatey, Scoop and…
Read MoreDOAG Anwenderkonferenz 2023 – Links der No-Slide-Tools-Session vom 22.11.2023
Hier die Links zu den vorgestellten Tools – viel Spass bei Ausprobieren, experimentieren und Know-How erweitern. Excalidrawhttps://excalidraw.com/ Visual Studio Codehttps://code.visualstudio.com/ Lightspeedhttps://developers.redhat.com/products/ansible/lightspeed GitHub Copilothttps://github.com/features/copilot DBeaver Communityhttps://dbeaver.io/download/ OpenAIhttps://openai.com/ Steampipehttps://steampipe.io/ ZoomIThttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit Docker Desktophttps://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/
Read MoreNever stop Learning – why I love Oracle LiveLabs
Since over one and a half year, this week I was back in an onsite training, live people, live teaching. With a motivated junior DBA class, we started with all about Oracle architecture based on our Trivadis training O-AI – Oracle Architecture and Internals. The training is a mix between slides, demos and labs. Therefore during the course we run the training environments in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, build by Terraform (Credits to Stefan Oehrli from oradba.ch which has ramped up the whole stuff). After the course at the end of the month, the environments will be cleaned up. And what’s next? Training Environments There are a lot of possibilities to get a deeper knowledge of all this Oracle stuff like…
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