Simo
@thatfinnishguy.blog
Finnish-Canadian. Based out of Toronto. Love jiujitsu and biking. Works for Accenture Enkitec Group w/ mostly Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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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!
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September 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!
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#OracleACE
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#OracleACE
New video: Testing Autonomous Database cross-region Data Guard for FREE. (with GCP)
youtu.be/FsCbcZDwZHI
youtu.be/FsCbcZDwZHI
ThatFinnishGuy - What!? I can test Autonomous Database Disaster Recovery with Google Cloud for FREE?
YouTube video by ThatFinnishGuy
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August 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New video: Testing Autonomous Database cross-region Data Guard for FREE. (with GCP)
youtu.be/FsCbcZDwZHI
youtu.be/FsCbcZDwZHI
New blog post: Testing connectivity to OCI Streaming @oracleace www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/08/14/t...
Test you can connect to your OCI Streaming endpoint | That Finnish Guy
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August 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New blog post: Testing connectivity to OCI Streaming @oracleace www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/08/14/t...
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...
Also my final post for this @oracleace cycle! Let's continue in June! 😀
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/30/o...
Oracle Autonomous Database on GCP – Using gcloud CLI for operations | That Finnish Guy
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May 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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...
Also my final post for this @oracleace cycle! Let's continue in June! 😀
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/30/o...
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
SPOILER: Yes you can!
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/21/c...
@oracleace @OracleCloud @OracleDatabase
Can I connect with custom private hostname to my Autonomous Database? | That Finnish Guy
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May 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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
SPOILER: Yes you can!
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/05/21/c...
@oracleace @OracleCloud @OracleDatabase
New Blog post! Using Google Cloud Storage together with Autonomous Database.
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Using Google Cloud Storage with Autonomous Database@GCP | That Finnish Guy
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April 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New Blog post! Using Google Cloud Storage together with Autonomous Database.
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/04/30/u...
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/04/30/u...
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. 😀🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇸
April 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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. 😀🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇸
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.
The login process is now THREE PAGES vs the old single login.
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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.
The login process is now THREE PAGES vs the old single login.
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
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March 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
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Here's my ora-dbXchecker which prints the output of Exa infrastructure in OCI/Azure/GCP.
FIgured it'll be good to get summary of the whole Exadata via APIs and not run single commands/browse the Console.
github.com/svilmune/ora...
@oracleace
FIgured it'll be good to get summary of the whole Exadata via APIs and not run single commands/browse the Console.
github.com/svilmune/ora...
@oracleace
GitHub - svilmune/ora-dbcXchecker: This script retrieves details of Exadata Infrastructure and VM Clusters in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and works with DB@Azure and DB@GCP for Exadata.
This script retrieves details of Exadata Infrastructure and VM Clusters in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and works with DB@Azure and DB@GCP for Exadata. - svilmune/ora-dbcXchecker
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March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here's my ora-dbXchecker which prints the output of Exa infrastructure in OCI/Azure/GCP.
FIgured it'll be good to get summary of the whole Exadata via APIs and not run single commands/browse the Console.
github.com/svilmune/ora...
@oracleace
FIgured it'll be good to get summary of the whole Exadata via APIs and not run single commands/browse the Console.
github.com/svilmune/ora...
@oracleace
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
Hoping to put it out next week! @oracleace.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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
Hoping to put it out next week! @oracleace.bsky.social
New Console Experience for OCI | That Finnish Guy
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February 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
How can we connect and make sure ZDM works?
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/02/19/z...
ZDM migration to Autonomous Database on GCP using Network Link for direct migration – part 1 | That Finnish Guy
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February 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
How can we connect and make sure ZDM works?
www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2025/02/19/z...
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!
February 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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!
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
ocistatus.oraclecloud.com#/history
OCI Status
Welcome to OCI's Status home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
ocistatus.oraclecloud.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
ocistatus.oraclecloud.com#/history
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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...
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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...
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?
I've looked through Data Safe and it gets the OCI Console as source ip only I think?
December 13, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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?
I've looked through Data Safe and it gets the OCI Console as source ip only I think?
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.
The amount of hours we've poured into figuring this out past weeks is absurd.
December 9, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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.
The amount of hours we've poured into figuring this out past weeks is absurd.
So this was fun. 😀 @oracleace.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM
So this was fun. 😀 @oracleace.bsky.social
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...
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...
Autonomous Database Audit Logs to Logging Service Part 1 | That Finnish Guy
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November 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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...
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...
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 ❤️
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 ❤️
November 24, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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 ❤️
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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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...
"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...
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.
ukoug.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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...
"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...
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. 🙂
I was/am always open to actually pay for verification on X, IF it would be real verification. Not just my cc. 🙂
November 21, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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. 🙂
I was/am always open to actually pay for verification on X, IF it would be real verification. Not just my cc. 🙂
No work this week. Just visiting Finland. 😎
November 20, 2024 at 6:53 PM
No work this week. Just visiting Finland. 😎