Category: Cloud Services

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Oracle New Visual Online Tools

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Hi all,
So, after a long time of same old documentation style, Oracle started sharing some nice and visual pages for some specifics. Here are 2 examples:

1. Oracle Move to Cloud  (http://www.oracle.com/goto/move)
This one was shown to me by Ricardo Gonzalez, and it’s a GREAT tool if you are planning migrations to Oracle Cloud in general.

The part I like most is where you select the source and destination formats/versions you want and all recommended migration methods are suggested. Of course additional validation on database are required for each method, but it can potentially remind you of things you may be forgetting.

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Something else I like very much as well is the section with executive summaries of each migration tool. It’s basically ready for a print screen to put in the slides you are going to present to your boss… 🙂

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Also, you have handy some links to papers for the most different migration scenarios, as per:

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2. Oracle Database Features: (https://apex.oracle.com/database-features/

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And by selecting any of the features you can see more info in a very simple way, as per below. By the way, with one click you can be directed to the documentation (the old fashioned one):

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Hope you enjoy those as much as I did and hope Oracle continue providing those sort of interfaces to us!

Cheers!

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AWS EC2: Custom Functions to Verify Passwords

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Hello all!
Looking forward to create password functions on EC2? Easy, we just need to use AWS internal functions for it. Check below an example:

# To create it:

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_password_verify.create_verify_function(
        p_verify_function_name => 'CUSTOM_PASSWORD_FUNCTION', 
        p_min_length           => 12, 
        p_min_uppercase        => 2, 
        p_min_digits           => 1, 
        p_min_special          => 1,
        p_disallow_at_sign     => true);
end;
/

In case you want to double check the code created, here goes a quick trick: Check on DBA_SOURCE:

col text format a150
  select TEXT  from DBA_SOURCE 
   where OWNER = 'SYS' and NAME = 'CUSTOM_PASSWORD_FUNCTION' order by LINE;

Hope it helps. Cheers!

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Getting started with Oracle Cloud – OCI

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Hi all, this one is a quick one 🙂
I’m starting the Oracle Cloud journey, a bit late but still have time right?

The Oracle cloud has being improving and adding new features lately.

To get started on it, you can, as I am :-), watching these youtube series

OCI Level 100 on YouTube
OCI Level 200 on YouTube

Hope it helps on the your Oracle cloud journey!

Elisson Almeida

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AWS EC2: Grant Privileges to SYS Objects

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Hello all!
So quick one today: How to grant and revoke privileges from/to SYS objects on EC2 instances? Do we have the ‘grant option’ for those grants?

Easy, have a look:

# Grant

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/

# Grant with Grant Option

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name     => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee      => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege    => 'SELECT',
        p_grant_option => true);
end;
/

# Revoke

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.revoke_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_revokee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/
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AWS – Kill Sessions on RDS Oracle Database

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Hi all!
Today is a quick tip. Actually, just because more than once I was about to kill a session in a RDS session and it was simply not possible with my usual ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION scripts… 🙂

Know how to do it? Here it goes:

begin
rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.kill(
sid => &sid,
serial => &serial);
end;
/

Putted it in a script: @killrds.sql

Cheers!

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Creating a Free Oracle Database at AWS

Have you ever heard about Amazon RDS?

Amazon RDS is a Relational Database cloud based service, which intends to help you to automate administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, database creation, backups, etc. Currently six database engines are available under this service: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.

This post provides a quick step-by-step on how to create your first Oracle Database RDS.

Requirements:
– Have an Amazon AWS account. If you don’t have one, don’t panic! You can still create one at: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html

Now, how to create a RDS? Here it goes:

More“Creating a Free Oracle Database at AWS”

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Database in Cloud: Quickest Procedure to Clone a Schema

Hey all!
So, we all know that operating with files/dump files can be tricky when using DBaaS in Public Cloud. In some situations, like Amazon RDS service, we simply don’t have access to SO.

In this scenario, how can we quickly clone a schema in the database? Using IMPDP with Database Link.

Also note that when working on AWS environments, avoiding to use dumpfiles when dealing with expdp/impdp is also encouraged to save IOPS from local disks (it is capped based on machine type).

This is, of course, also valid for On-Premise environments with limited area for dump files.

For this to work, we only need to create a database link pointing to the same database.
Also, of course, it is mandatory to use remap_schema, with optional clause remap_tablespace.

In the following example the link name is loop and proceed with impdp from a jumpbox with an Oracle client and tns configuration to RDS database.

1. Creating Database Link:

SQL> create database link loop connect to my_sysdba identified by "***" using '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=service-name)))';

Database link created.

SQL> select * from dual@loop;

D
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X

2. Running IMPDP:

[oracle@jumpbox ~]$ impdp schemas=ORIGINAL_SCHEMA network_link=loop remap_schema=ORIGINAL_SCHEMA:NEW_SCHEMA remap_tablespace=ORIGINAL_TBS:NEW_TBS TRANSFORM=oid:n directory=ANY_DIR logfile=duplicate_original.log

Import: Release 11.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Fev 7 21:03:54 2018

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Username: / as sysdba

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
Starting "SYS"."SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_02": /******** AS SYSDBA schemas=ORIGINAL_SCHEMA network_link=loop remap_schema=ORIGINAL_SCHEMA:NEW_SCHEMA remap_tablespace=ORIGINAL_TBS:NEW_TBS TRANSFORM=oid:n directory=ANY_DIR logfile=duplicate_original.log
Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 1.481 GB
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/USER
ORA-31684: Object type USER:"NEW_SCHEMA" already exists
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/SYSTEM_GRANT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/ROLE_GRANT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/DEFAULT_ROLE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLESPACE_QUOTA
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/PRE_SCHEMA/PROCACT_SCHEMA
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TYPE/TYPE_SPEC
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/SEQUENCE/SEQUENCE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE
...
. . imported "NEW_SCHEMA"."TABLE1" 0 rows
. . imported "NEW_SCHEMA"."TABLE2" 0 rows
. . imported "NEW_SCHEMA"."TABLE3" 0 rows
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/FUNCTION/FUNCTION
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/PROCEDURE/PROCEDURE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/FUNCTION/ALTER_FUNCTION
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/PROCEDURE/ALTER_PROCEDURE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/CONSTRAINT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/STATISTICS/INDEX_STATISTICS
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/REF_CONSTRAINT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
Job "SYS"."SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_02" completed with 1 error(s) at Wed Fev 7 21:08:52 2018 elapsed 0 00:04:54

Hope it helps,
Cheers!

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Oracle – Free DevOps Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

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Hey!
Just passing by to let you know that Oracle is organizing a free Massive Open Online Course to cover DevOps topics.

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The course will be delivered over three weeks from 13 January to 3 February. 

The discussed topics are:

• What is DevOps ?
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) Using Python or Java
• Agile and Project Management Using Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Using Oracle Developer Cloud Service

You can enroll to the course by clicking here.

Enjoy!