Category: Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Dec 14

ORA-28427: cannot create, import or restore unencrypted tablespace: USERS in Oracle Cloud

Those days I was trying to create a database using the "CREATE DATABASE" syntax in a IaaS Compute in Oracle Cloud to build a lab for one of my sessions. SQL> CREATE DATABASE db21c USER SYS IDENTIFIED BY Oracle11__ USER SYSTEM IDENTIFIED BY Oracle11__ EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNDO TABLESPACE undotbs1 DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE tempts1 DEFAULT …

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Oct 27

Why you should avoid giving inspect/read all-resources policy in OCI

I've already seen many cases where a customer needs to give some read-only access on their tenancy to contractors / auditors / non-admin users. The easiest thing to is usually give "read" (or the more restrictive "inspect") all-resources policy to that user's group. In this article I will show how a user can use that …

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Oct 22

Get your Tenancy OCID using a single oci-cli command

If you need to get your Tenancy OCID to use in some of your scripts, there is no simple oci-cli command that will do it for you. However, using some parameters you can get the raw output: $ oci iam compartment list \ --all \ --compartment-id-in-subtree true \ --access-level ACCESSIBLE \ --include-root \ --raw-output \ …

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Oct 20

SPOUG 2020 - Deep dive into Oracle Cloud metadata

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Oct 03

How to access internal OCI DBaaS backup Object Storage bucket

This article will show how can you access the data that oracle stores in the internal hidden buckets, mainly used for "*aaS" backups. Update: Oracle has now an official tool for that: MV2BUCKET. It's fully supported and available in the MOS note below. Consider using it instead of the manual approach:(OCI) mv2bucket - Oracle Managed …

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