One Reason to Run Oracle on Google Cloud Platform

There is one reason to run Oracle on Google Cloud Platform, one solid and compelling reason. It has nothing to do with cost, and it has nothing to do with performance.

Compartments in OCI

 One of my favorite concepts in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is compartments. If you have worked in AWS, at first they may seem redundant and cumbersome, but contrary to that, they are quite useful and make things less cluttered. 

Solution of Nuget Provider Issue with PowerShell and AWS Tools

 On a AWS EC2 Windows 2012 server, my goal was to write some data to S3 bucket. I was using a small Powershell Script to copy the file to the S3 bucket. For that I needed to Install AWS Tools for Powershell and I used following command at Powershell prompt running as administrator:

Boto3 Dynamodb TypeError: Float types are not supported. Use Decimal types instead

 I was trying to ram data into AWS dynamodb via Boto3 and the streaming failed due to following error:

  File "C:\Program Files\Python37\lib\site-packages\boto3\dynamodb\types.py", line 102, in serialize

    dynamodb_type = self._get_dynamodb_type(value)

  File "C:\Program Files\Python37\lib\site-packages\boto3\dynamodb\types.py", line 115, in _get_dynamodb_type

    elif self._is_number(value):

  File "C:\Program Files\Python37\lib\site-packages\boto3\dynamodb\types.py", line 160, in _is_number

    'Float types are not supported. Use Decimal types instead.')

TypeError: Float types are not supported. Use Decimal types instead.

Main SQL Window Functions for Data Engineers in Cloud

 To become a data engineer in cloud requires to have a good grasp of SQL among various other things. SQL is the premier tool for interacting with data sets. At first it seems daunting to see all those SQL analytics functions, but if you start with a tiny dataset like in the examples below and understand how these functions work, then it all becomes very easy for large datasets of any volume.

Docker Behind Proxy on CentOS - Solution to Many Issues

If you running docker behind proxy on CentOS and receiving timeout or network errors, then use below steps to configure proxy settings on your CentOS box where docker is installed and you are trying to build docker image:

Most Underappreciated AWS Service and Why

Who wants to mention in their resume that one of their operation task is to tag the cloud resources? Well I did and mentioned that one of the tools I used for that purpose was Tag Editor. Interviewer was surprised to learn that there was such a thing in AWS which allowed tagging multiple resource at once. I got the job due to this most under-appreciated and largely unknown service.

From DBA to DBI

Recently Pradeep Parmer at AWS had a blog post about transitioning from DBA to DBI or in other words from database administrator to database innovator. I wonder what exactly is the difference here as any DBA worth his or her salt is an innovator in itself.

What is Purpose Built Database

 In simple words, a general Database Engine is a big clunky piece of software with features for all the use cases, and its up to you to choose which features to use. Whereas in a purpose built database, you get a lean, specific database which is only suitable for the feature you want.

5 Important Steps Before Upgrading Oracle on AWS RDS

 Even though AWS RDS (relational database service) is a managed service which means that you won't have to worry about upgrades, patches and other tidbits, you still have the option of manually triggering the upgrade at time of your choice.