Join Oracle ACE Director @jimthewhyguy.bsky.social on Sept 11 with SAOUG for “Create Uber-Fast Maps With 23ai Vector Tiles and H3 Indexing.” Learn how to build high-performance maps with powerful new tools! www.saoug.co.za/create-uber-... #OracleACE

New video: Testing Autonomous Database cross-region Data Guard for FREE. (with GCP) youtu.be/FsCbcZDwZHI

New blog post: Testing connectivity to OCI Streaming @oracleace www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/08/14/t...

New blog post: Using gcloud CLI to provision and operate Autonomous Database@Google. Also my final post for this @oracleace cycle! Let's continue in June! 😀 www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/30/o...

New blog post: Can I connect to my Autonomous Database with a custom hostname? SPOILER: Yes you can! www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/21/c... @oracleace @OracleCloud @OracleDatabase

New Blog post! Using Google Cloud Storage together with Autonomous Database. www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/04/30/u...

Weirdly enough my Oracle adventures took me first to Oracle Cloud World in Vegas.. Then to AWS re:Invent in Vegas and now again after few months.. Google Next 25 in Vegas. 😀🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇸

Looks like MOS (Oracle Support), enabled MFA yesterday for accounts. Continuing the good track record with MOS updates, seems you can only use SMS or email for the second factor. Using the Mobile Authenticator is probably too much. The login process is now THREE PAGES vs the old single login.

I had the pleasure to announce the OCI Networking 2025 Professional certification, pumped that they asked me to write the announcement as I've always admired the @Oracle_Edu team behind these exams and learning content! @oracleace @OracleCloud blogs.oracle.com/oracleuniver...

Here's my ora-dbXchecker which prints the output of Exa infrastructure in OCI/Azure/GCP. FIgured it'll be good to get summary of the whole Exadata via APIs and not run single commands/browse the Console. github.com/svilmune/ora... @oracleace

Been working on this discovery / deployment report script for a while, it's just a "simple" bash script but once you've deployed your DB@X (Exadata), it's nice to get all the info to a report. Hoping to put it out next week! @oracleace.bsky.social

Blog post! New Console experience for OCI. I do like it! www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/02/26/n...

Blog post! Two part post where I use ZDM to migrate my database to Oracle Autonomous DB on GCP. First part goes through the network setup as Autonomous runs on private VPC in Google. How can we connect and make sure ZDM works? www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/02/19/z...

Was writing a blog post on Autonomous DB and private endpoints (and DNS). We had issue where using UTL_HTTP and adding ACL gave unknown host for private API GW and after adding ROUTE_OUTBOUND_CONNECTIONS property it started to work. However.. :) Provisioned new DB and it works without the property!

Seems like @oraclecloud.bsky.social had multiple issues on Friday, the email communication is spot on what they send, but what troubles me is they keep the OCI status page up and alive but don't bother updating it in the past 8 months anymore. ocistatus.oraclecloud.com#/history

The latest #Oracle #Exadata System Software Updates for 25.1, 24ai (24.1), 23.1, and 22.1 are now available. Details on the @OracleExadata PM Blog site - blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post...

Hey Oracle folks, if I use Autonomous DB and login to DB tools with Admin user (from OCI Console) - does any audit log link that Admin user to a OCI identity? I want to know who logged on! 🙂 I've looked through Data Safe and it gets the OCI Console as source ip only I think?

I feel like there's not enough talk about the new Oracle Support page. I know we can still use the old one, but whoever decided this is good to go for production use errr. The amount of hours we've poured into figuring this out past weeks is absurd.

So this was fun. 😀 @oracleace.bsky.social

New blog post: Setting up Data Safe to get logs from Autonomous Database to OCI Logging. This is part 1, end goal being to get the audit logs to OCI logging which is requirement I recently ran into. www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2024/11/28/a...

Heading back home today from 🇫🇮. Nice things here, everything is pretty much online. No need for small talk. 😀 Bad things: no need for small talk, it feels weird sometimes now living so long abroad when people don't talk so much. Also: Sauna ❤️

Really looking forward to giving my first first UK Oracle User Group presentation since before Covid times. "Ansible: the Least an Oracle DBA needs to know" UKOUG conference Discover 2024 is on in Birmingham (Sun 1 - Tues 3 December) #ukougdiscover24 ukoug.org/page/UKOUGCo...

Yay! I changed my handle here. Cool. 🙂 I was/am always open to actually pay for verification on X, IF it would be real verification. Not just my cc. 🙂

No work this week. Just visiting Finland. 😎