Friday, 29 May 2015

Migrate MySQL to Oracle using multiple virtualboxes

After 10 years I have come back to MySQL and there is quite a lot of things which may concern an Oracle DBA.

MySQL and Oracle live under the same company roof
as I have predicted 12 years ago and the results of the meanwhile peaceful  conjugal live have turned out to be impressing for Oracle DBA's as well.

Friday, 22 May 2015

Vagrant on Windows

Refers to train.oracle12.migration

The Problem

People focussed on Windows have problems in understanding and setting up vagrant projects on their machines. They simply don't like the commandline and insist on "clicking in GUIs". If one pretends to work seriously, he must not be attached to this attitude. Here are the basic steps.

Monday, 18 May 2015

In-Memory Database Columnar Technology in a VirtualBox

Refers to train.oracle12.migration

The Problem
You have imported the user OE into the pluggable database PDB1 inside your guest VM. Now you want to test the In-Memory features of Oracle12c.

Oracle's datapump between host and guestVM

Refers to train.oracle12.migration  
The Problem
You want to load data from your host database into your VM database. Instead of theoretical instruction I will show you an example.