Creating read-only account for REST billing access on Oracle Cloud

In this article I will describe the steps you need to take if you want to create an account in your Oracle Cloud with read-only access to your oracle cloud billing information. Please note this article was written on June-2019, and as Oracle is introducing new-features and changing the look n’ feel of the pages …

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Dissecting 190416 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. To check previous changes, follow the links below: Dissecting 190115 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 181016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180717 BP, PSU, RU and RUR …

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Cloning Security List Rules among different SLs in OCI

On the last year, I’ve been working for a customer that uses one of the Oracle OCI regions as his primary DC and the other as a Standby environment. As they are pretty identical regarding the routes and network access rules, I needed to constantly get their Standby region in sync with the primary regarding …

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Force a private IP during Load Balancer creation in OCI

Those days, I needed to recreate a Load Balancer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for a specific reason. It was a private Load Balancer. The problem is that when you create a Load Balancer, you can’t specify the Private IP address in the Subnet that you want to use.. Oracle will pick automatically 3 IPs from …

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Installing and running Oracle Database 19.2.0.0 on Oracle Linux 7

In this article I will describe how to install the very first available release of Oracle Database 19c (19.2.0.0) binaries on Oracle Linux 7.6. Even though it’s not officially released for Oracle Linux non-Exadata yet, in edelivery it is available an Exadata DB version that is compatible with your local machine running OL. Use it for test …

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