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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 09/09/2025

Looks fun! 😀I do similar stuff with Peloton but not that much during summer time (MTB only!)

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 28/08/2025

Lots of very good info from that session, thank you!

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 14/08/2025

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

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Test you can connect to your OCI Streaming endpoint | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 17/07/2025

Would it make sense to use this OCI (or DB@X) databases also? Kinda like pre-check manually or does the OCI DB pre-check do the same?

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 30/06/2025

What Exascale needs (IMO) is support for 19c. Feels like a powerhouse on the side which people don't have any reason to go to right now for a wider adoption.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 05/06/2025

This was nice, thanks to you both! Although, I think your Redwood UI review might be slightly too positive. 😀

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 30/05/2025

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...

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Oracle Autonomous Database on GCP – Using gcloud CLI for operations | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 21/05/2025

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

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Can I connect with custom private hostname to my Autonomous Database? | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 30/04/2025

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

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Using Google Cloud Storage with Autonomous Database@GCP | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 08/04/2025

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. 😀🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇸

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 18/03/2025

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.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 06/03/2025

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...

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 28/02/2025

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

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 26/02/2025

I think then if you want dashboard and more advanced stuff, you will have to do it with Logging Analytics. 😀 $$$

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 26/02/2025

Would using jq query then work together with OCI CLI? I did something similar with Cloud Guard detector recipes, would have to test if it applies here. :)

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 26/02/2025

If you use LogSearch then wildcard will work. I tested with IP* so it gets all the sources with different ports for data.backendAddr = '10.0.0.20*'

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 26/02/2025

Which logs you mean? VCN Flow Logs handle it separately at least.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 26/02/2025

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

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New Console Experience for OCI | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 21/02/2025

I love them with MTB!

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 20/02/2025

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...

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ZDM migration to Autonomous Database on GCP using Network Link for direct migration – part 1 | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 10/02/2025

So I guess I'm frustrated since I don't see consistency with this! And can't write the post!

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 10/02/2025

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!

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 27/01/2025

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

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OCI Status

Welcome to OCI's Status home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Oracle Exadata Product Management @exadatapm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

Exadata Software Update announcement splash screen

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 20/12/2024

Next year some live techno stream please! 😀

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 13/12/2024

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?

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 10/12/2024

Yeah I think the idea is good, but somebody like myself who has 10x OCI tenancies, 20 CSIs and mixture of SaaS and OCI + on-prem it's a mess how it was implemented. What I hear, also Oracle's folks are struggling with this. We're told to read communication email as if it clears things. 😀

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 09/12/2024

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.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 28/11/2024

There's no native way to get logs to streaming but luckily there's a function done by Oracle to do it. This should be native feature for sure as most times all logs go to central SIEM for clients.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 28/11/2024

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...

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Autonomous Database Audit Logs to Logging Service Part 1 | That Finnish Guy

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 24/11/2024

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 ❤️

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Patrick Hurley @pjhurley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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...

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UKOUGConference2024

The UKOUG Conference is the premier annual event for Oracle users in the UK and Ireland. Bringing together a vibrant community of professionals, this conference is the ultimate platform for sharing knowledge, networking, and exploring the latest in Oracle technology and applications.

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 21/11/2024

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. 🙂

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 21/11/2024

Yeah we hardly got any snow last winter in Toronto!

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 20/11/2024

No work this week. Just visiting Finland. 😎

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 20/11/2024

Thanks! My happy place! 🙂

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Simo @thatfinnishguy.blog · 01/11/2024

I hope this might evolve to more tech oriented platform over time. Would be nice!

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