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Oracle ASM in Azure
Now we're doing more stuff in the cloud I've had to dust off my old sysadmin hat and start doing more of the stuff I'd forgotten about from when i was a sysadmin (10+ years ago). This week I've been...
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Oracle ASM in Azure with premium (SSD) disks - warning
So after following my previous notes on installing ASM into Azure, i repeated everything but using premium (SSD) disks and all appeared to be well - until that is i did a data pump load into it and put...
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Connection manager - why does this seem to be a secret feature?
While looking into an issue with not having routing available to a certain network one of my colleagues suggested connection manager - something he just found when googling the problem. Now I'd heard...
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Reverse tunneling for DBA's
After quite a long time I'm finally writing up a new post for your digestion. The reason for the long gap is that I'm going through something of a career change at the moment and I'm essentially...
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Joining windows azure machines to Azure Active directory (AAD) using AADDS
So my foray into the cloud world continues and I've been getting more and more involved in the windows server aspects of this. Now i know if we were truly doing proper full on cloud we wouldn't be...
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Sending emails via smtp relay from azure via office365
Not the snappiest of titles i know - and actually quite a dry post without really having any screenshots -but hey they can't all look great can they......This is just a short summary of what i had to...
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Patching linux servers in Microsoft Azure
As part of our cloud migration we have to still manage a large number of traditional style machines (IaaS in new world terminology). These cover both windows and linux platforms - and actually in our...
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Oracle ASM in Azure corruption - follow up
A few weeks ago i was contacted by the ASM product manager in a follow up to my post on the corruption issues i'd had with ASM in Azure. We had a conversation about the issues that I'd had and he told...
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Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS
For those of you that don't know Zabbix is an open source monitoring tool very much like Nagios (which i think is slightly better known).I blogged a while ago about how to set this up using Oracle as...
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Changing user passwords and expiry in Azure AD
We've now had users created for a while in Azure AD - and here I'm talking about users that have been created directly in Azure AD - not anything that has been replicated from some 'normal' AD on...
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MySQL Paas password change - is this a bug or a feature?
Now I'm no MySQL expert which is one of the main reasons we are using the (relatively) new MySQL PaaS offering from Microsoft in Azure - today we've seen some odd behaviour when trying to do some...
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Tracking all your networks and subnets
Now we've started building a lot more in Azure it's quickly become apparent that you need to plan the networking properly and have some tooling to help you with this.I'm sure networking people already...
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More oddity with MySQL PaaS
Whilst setting up the phpipam tool (the one i mentioned in my last post https://phpipam.net/) i decided to use a MySQL PaaS in Azure to host the database part rather than manage MySQL myself - however...
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Multiple smtp relay send accounts for office365
This is a follow up on this post here about smtp and office365 - after some more investigation i've made some further changes as our use case changed slightly and the original solution didn't...
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Tuning by understanding your application
This is a short post to illustrate how the understanding of how an application works can make all the difference to how you an tune it. This is a real world case which is actually pretty simple but i...
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Tracing a session SQL in "Azure SQL"
With our 'cloud first' strategy we are trying to make use of Azure SQL for all of our databases as much as possible. This (as we have discovered) does come with a few things you need to be aware of as...
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Using a hardware token to log on to linux
PKI/hardware tokens are now quite a commonplace accessory in the IT workplace and are generally used to enable VPN connectivity to the office or to sign or encrypt emails. I knew they could be used to...
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More than one way to skin a cat (and by cat i mean azure)
Not sure what the actual first origin is of the english phrase 'there is more than one way to skin a cat' but it seems vaguely appropriate when dealing with doing things inside Azure. There are...
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Raising a RHEL support request in Azure
We've been using RHEL machines in Azure for a while now but had no cause to actually make use of the support option we're paying for with the licence/support included images we are using.So how do you...
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Fusing blobs in Azure.......
If you're reading this as a DBA you might be thinking i've written some plsql code to combine to blob column values into one - you'd be sadly mistaken what I'm actually going to talk about is this...
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