I love to follow in the footsteps of people who are braver, smarter and more knowledgeable than me.
So I was happy to wait till SQL Maria (Maria Colgan) published her blog post on Oracle Database 12c now available on Docker, with step-by-step instructions for taking advantage of the new Docker image for 12.2 now available (specifically, 12.2 via Docker on Github, 12.2 via Docker at the Docker Store).
I am happy to report that I can now connect SQL Developer to my containerized 12.2 database. Thank you, Maria, for a very helpful post!
Now, I am not going to repeat everything Maria already wrote. That would be silly. I will simply point out some things you might find helpful as you do the same thing I did (follow in Maria's footsteps - which, literally, meant lots of copy-pasting rather dumbly).
1. Watch out for those dashes when you copy/paste.
Docker was not responding as expected to my commands and I (well, actually, Gerald) eventually noticed that the dash, copied from the blog post, was too long - it had been translated into a different character. So watch out for that! You might need to retype the command yourself.
I hate that.
:-)
2. Create your own folder for your Oracle Database files. I know it should be obvious. But I am a copy-paste sorta guy, and probably the only one in the world who would copy this command into my terminal and expect it to work:
And it did - once I created my own folder for the files, and replaced that in the command.
Oh and by the way, that entire command (once you swap out mcolgan-mac for your own foler) needs to be one one line.
After that, everything went very smoothly and, again following Maria's wonderfully clear steps, I had my database up and running.
Then I set up my connection in SQL Developer:
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and voila! My own 12.2 database running in a Docker container, on my Mac.
Thanks, Maria!
Thanks, Gerald!
Thanks, Docker!
Thanks, Oracle!
So I was happy to wait till SQL Maria (Maria Colgan) published her blog post on Oracle Database 12c now available on Docker, with step-by-step instructions for taking advantage of the new Docker image for 12.2 now available (specifically, 12.2 via Docker on Github, 12.2 via Docker at the Docker Store).
I am happy to report that I can now connect SQL Developer to my containerized 12.2 database. Thank you, Maria, for a very helpful post!
Now, I am not going to repeat everything Maria already wrote. That would be silly. I will simply point out some things you might find helpful as you do the same thing I did (follow in Maria's footsteps - which, literally, meant lots of copy-pasting rather dumbly).
1. Watch out for those dashes when you copy/paste.
Docker was not responding as expected to my commands and I (well, actually, Gerald) eventually noticed that the dash, copied from the blog post, was too long - it had been translated into a different character. So watch out for that! You might need to retype the command yourself.
I hate that.
:-)
2. Create your own folder for your Oracle Database files. I know it should be obvious. But I am a copy-paste sorta guy, and probably the only one in the world who would copy this command into my terminal and expect it to work:
docker run --name oracle -p 1521:1521 -p 5500:5500
-v /Users/mcolgan-mac/oradata:/opt/oracle/oradata
oracle/database:12.2.0.1-ee
And it did - once I created my own folder for the files, and replaced that in the command.
Oh and by the way, that entire command (once you swap out mcolgan-mac for your own foler) needs to be one one line.
After that, everything went very smoothly and, again following Maria's wonderfully clear steps, I had my database up and running.
Then I set up my connection in SQL Developer:
and voila! My own 12.2 database running in a Docker container, on my Mac.
Thanks, Maria!
Thanks, Gerald!
Thanks, Docker!
Thanks, Oracle!