Introduction Since day one, I have been involved in discussions about whether Oracle Autonomous Database runs on Oracle RAC and whether the CPUs are distributed on multiple RAC nodes only for 17 OCPUs or more. Does that actually matter? No! But many, including me, always want to know more about what’s happening behind the scene.…
Category: Autonomous Database
50 seconds to your first CREATE TABLE statement
Do you want to develop an application and need a database? Create an Oracle Autonomous Database, download the Client Credentials, connect to the database, and create your first table, all in 50 seconds. Without pre-installing any tools. Open the Cloud Shell in your Cloud Console and execute the following few lines after adjusting the values…
How to Calculate Used and Allocated Storage in Oracle Autonomous Database
Introduction Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully managed service. Simply specify the CPU count and the amount of storage needed and you are ready to go. Scaling up and down CPU and storage is an online operation without any service interruption. Additionally, you can enable CPU Auto Scaling. Traditional storage management operations like creating and…
Am I Autonomous or non-Autonomous, that is the Question
Introduction As more and more customers are moving their databases to Oracle Cloud, they have a mix of on-premises, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Autonomous databases in their environments. DBAs and developers usually use SQL scripts to automate several tasks in the database. In some cases, they want to execute some tasks only on…
How to Import your Data into Oracle Autonomous Database – APEX Service
Introduction As you probably already know, Oracle APEX enables you to build applications with minimal coding. APEX is already available in all Oracle Autonomous Database workload types: transaction processing, data warehouse, and JSON. You get a fully-managed database where you can even more focus on your application development. Additionally, Oracle provides an Autonomous Database specifically…
Save Storage Cost with Hybrid Partitioned Tables in Oracle Autonomous Database
Introduction Partitioned Tables allow you to subdivide tables into smaller pieces (partitions) that can be managed and accessed at a finer level of granularity. The nice thing is that it is entirely transparent to your SQL SELECT statements and to the application. External (Partitioned) Tables enable you to access data on external storage as if…
Use your Web Browser to import Data Pump dump files into Oracle Autonomous Database
Introduction This is a step by step instruction of the minimum steps needed to import your Data Pump dump files into Oracle Autonomous Database. Without installing anything! Before you export your data, have a look at best practices and what to consider when you migrate to Autonomous Database. Step 0: Upload you Dump Files into…
Real-time Data Replication between Oracle Autonomous Databases using Oracle GoldenGate
Introduction Oracle GoldenGate is a software product that allows you to replicate, filter, and transform data from one database to another in real-time. It can be used to migrate databases with (near) zero downtime. As logical replication, source and target databases could be of different versions, platforms, and character sets. Even many non-Oracle databases are supported.…
Automate Data Pump Export in Autonomous Database for Archiving incl. Cross-region Copy
Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates the human labor associated with database tuning, security, backups, patching, upgrade, and other routine management tasks traditionally had to be performed manually. Other tasks like restore and recovery, migration, cloning, and moving data are done on demand (manually), but differently and more conveniently than on-premise. Data Pump is a very useful utility to extract…
Send Email from APEX deployed in Oracle Autonomous Database
In the Oracle Cloud, you can provision an Autonomous Database in minutes and start developing your APEX application immediatelly. If you don’t have an Oracle Cloud Account, register for the Always Free resources. From APEX, you can use the APEX_MAIL package to send emails using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Email Delivery service. Check how easy it is to configure!!! Step…