Slow updates recently as I was getting ready to two AWS exams. Happy to announce that I passed both the Solutions Architect Associate and the SysOps Administrator Associate! As I’m working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well now then next stop will be to pass the OCI Solutions Architect Associate exam. I think it…
FinnishingThoughts Podcast first episode is out!
For already quite some time I’ve thought it would be great to discuss on interesting topics with some of the Oracle experts out there and now I’m happy to say my first episode on FinnishingThoughts Podcast is out! https://finnishingthoughts.podbean.com/mf/web/gjhz6m/Finnishing_Thoughts_Episode_1_-_Julian_Dontcheff.mp3 In my first episode my guest is an Oracle Ace Director who works as…
Attended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seminar – part 2
In this post I will go through rest of services we discussed in the seminar. You can read part 1 from here. 5. Compute Services 6. Storage – Block volume & Object storage 7. Load Balancer 8. Database Services 9. A Lab 5. Compute Services So this is the service where you will create your…
Attended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seminar – part 1
I had the opportunity to attend half a day seminar about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) what Oracle offers. Here are some notes about it and some comparison to Amazon Web Services which I have been using a lot lately as well. Content The seminar was divided in to few different topics which were: Introduction to…
Loading customizations to e-Business Suite with Ansible
Happy new year! I’ll continue with Ansible topic with one more post as it has helped our small operations team quite a lot lately. We still run Oracle e-Business Suite 12.1.3 and the amount of customizations we have is really high(No surprise there!). Due to some historical reasons initially we were loading custom objects to…
Two ways to change Oracle passwords with Ansible
We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately we have been looking more and more into Ansible which as per their site is simple automation/orchestration tool. (Not so sure about simple!) Recently there has been also lot of presentations on automating your Oracle infrastructure…
How is my EBS instance using Exadata write-back flash cache?
When we were planning migration from commodity hardware to Exadata X5-2 one open topic we had was if it makes sense to enable write-back flash cache in Exadata. The default mode is write-through where read operations utilize flash cache but not the write operations. Write-back then uses the flash cache to both read AND write…
Oracle Open World & Intelligent Bot Service
Past week I attended Oracle Open World in San Francisco. I hadn’t been there for last 7 years so it was good to see lot of familiar faces there again. Still what comes to conference itself there are always good presentations but the percentage for hit & miss sessions is a lot higher compared to…
Oracle EBS Output Post Processor hanging after database upgrade to 12.1.0.2
We recently had very challenging issue after we upgraded our EBS 12.1.3 database from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2. On random occasions threads on output post processor started to hang / wait for something and eventually this caused concurrent managers to get completely stuck without anything being processed anymore. Only way to recover from this was to…
Looking deeper into ChatOps
Wow few upgrades and summer vacation kept me busy past few months. Lately I have been looking on automation and started to look into ChatOps. So what is ChatOps? If you look from various sources you get different explanation but to put it really simple you have a chatroom tailored for specific group, be it…
