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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 6 – Loading the example HR Schema

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 6 – Loading the example HR Schema

mwpreston December 10, 2018

During Part 4 of this series when we created our first Oracle database we opted to load...

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 5 – Connecting to Oracle Databases with SQL Developer

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 5 – Connecting to Oracle Databases with SQL Developer

mwpreston December 7, 2018

Alright – we have Oracle set up and all configured, we blasted a container and a pluggable...

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 4 – Creating Databases

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 4 – Creating Databases

mwpreston December 6, 2018

Finally – we are getting to the home stretch here with this series.  So far we’ve installed...

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 3 – Installing Oracle Database 12C Software

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 3 – Installing Oracle Database 12C Software

mwpreston December 5, 2018

Alright – by now we have installed Oracle Linux in Part 1 and prepped our installation with...

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 2 – Oracle Database Prerequisites

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 2 – Oracle Database Prerequisites

mwpreston December 4, 2018

Hopefully, by now you have a fully functional running VM with Oracle Linux on it – if...

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 1 – Oracle Linux Install

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Setting up an Oracle 12c R2 Lab for the Administration Certified Associate Certification – Part 1 – Oracle Linux Install

mwpreston December 3, 2018

Wait what?  Oracle?  Yeah, I’m shifting focus over the next couple of months to try and learn...

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Reusing vSAN claimed disks for other stuff (Like vSAN again)

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Reusing vSAN claimed disks for other stuff (Like vSAN again)

mwpreston November 21, 2018

Whilst in the lab recently I came into a bit of scuffle with vSAN and it’s claimed...

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Consuming RESTful APIs with Python

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Consuming RESTful APIs with Python

mwpreston September 26, 2018

As we continue our journey of consuming RESTful APIs with different scripting and programming languages we come...

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Consuming RESTful APIs with c#

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Consuming RESTful APIs with c#

mwpreston September 25, 2018

In my venture to learn new things and languages, I’ve decided to take a look at consuming...

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A newbies guide to ELK – Part 4 – Filtering w/ Grok

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A newbies guide to ELK – Part 4 – Filtering w/ Grok

mwpreston May 22, 2018

Alright!  It’s been a bit of work to finally get here but we are finally at a...

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