Jan 30

ORACHKSUM v20.01 is out!

Today I'm releasing v20.01 of ORACHKSUM! Now the tool is also compatible with Oracle Database 19c and any other 11.2.0.4+ DB with the latest Jan-2020 patch applied. For the ones who don't know what I'm talking about, orachksum is a tool that scans your database for malicious internal code changes (like tampering your DBMS_OUTPUT PL/SQL …

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Jan 28

Dissecting 200114 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 191016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 190716 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 190416 BP, PSU, RU and RUR …

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Jan 22

New Infrastructure View feature on OCI360

Today I'm releasing v2002 of OCI360! Now the tool will also include the Infrastructure Visual Design of your Tenancy (section 1a), including all your compute instances and its associated subnets, VCNs and IP addresses. I made it using VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies. Please note that VOWL is not a framework to build an …

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Jan 21

And now.. ACE Director!

This year started with some great news for me! Some days ago, on Jan 8th 2020, I received an email from the ACE Program saying that my application for ACE Director was accepted! After I confirmed the membership terms, the next day Jan 9th 2020, this was officially published! Another stage in my career as …

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Oct 28

Automating clone of OCI compute instances across regions

Oracle is constantly releasing new regions around the globe for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and geolocation is something very important for companies specially to achieve low latencies and high throughput. After those regions are out, I've been asked for some customers to move their existing computes from one region to another. After doing the same …

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