I’ve been using Oracle’s Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) tool lately, and given there are still some limitations on cloning your database in OCI, I was thinking could we use ZDM for this? Short answer – for sure! If you want to use native OCI capabilities for cloning your database, you are limited on restoring the…
Remote Cloning OCI DBCS PDB with OCI CLI
In previous post I showed how to perform remote clone with Resource Manager/Terraform/Ansible. What if you just want a quick remote clone to be done manually? Remember OCI Console doesn’t support Remote Cloning at the moment (February 2022) but you can do the remote clone through API’s as well. So let’s do it with OCI…
Remote Cloning OCI Database PDB with OCI Resource Manager, Terraform and Ansible
Code referenced in this post can be found from my Github page. There’s a new feature in OCI, which enables you to remote clone PDB from one database to another if certain conditions match. Right now, the databases need to be in same Availability Domain, need to be in same version and use the same…
Autonomous JSON Database with Database API for MongoDB
Oracle had announced Database API for MongoDB which can be used together with Autonomous JSON Database. This post will be with some learnings what I went through when I tested it out. Official announcement post goes through the setup rather well. When provisioning the database, remember to select Autonomous JSON database as DB type and…