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Create a new GoldenGate deployment with the REST API
Is it possible to create a new GoldenGate deployment with the REST API ? This is the question I will try to answer in this blog, based on my experience with the REST API. I will dive in what is done
Creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VM Using the CLI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides an easy-to-use command line interface named oci, with which you can do a lot of administrative tasks. Let's see in this blog how to create virtual machines
Relocate trail files with convchk when migrating GoldenGate to the Microservices Architecture
Depending on the location of your GoldenGate trail files, you might have to use the convchk utility to relocate them before migrating to the Microservices Architecture. Oracle has the following
Production-ready GoldenGate REST client in Python
*Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client. In this blog, I provide GoldenGate administrators with a fully working, production-ready Python client to efficiently handle
Querying GoldenGate REST API log efficiently
In this blog post, I will guide you on how to query the restapi.log file of your GoldenGate deployments more efficiently. These logs are a valuable source of information for GoldenGate administrators
Save your credential store before patching GoldenGate !
I recently had an issue with the GoldenGate credential store at a customer when patching a GoldenGate 19c setup with the latest 19.30 patch. Since it is not the first time that I have encountered
MongoDB DMK 2.4.0 : new features
In this blog, I will present the new features introduced with the latest release (2.4.0) of the MongoDB DMK. The DMK is a set of standardized tools that aims at easing the work of DBAs by having
OGG-08116 when creating a connection with GoldenGate REST API
When playing around with the GoldenGate REST API, you might have encountered the OGG-08116 error. It happens when using the *Create Connection REST API call, with the following endpoint given in the
Debugging GoldenGate Veridata Agents
A crucial step after installing a Veridata server is to set up Veridata agents. And, as mentioned in a previous blog post about GoldenGate Veridata installation, Oracle didn't bother to indicate when
GoldenGate REST API basics with Python
Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I've yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty. Mainly