Introduction When building applications, it is essential to ensure business continuity by establishing high availability and disaster recovery mechanisms. This requires implementing a resilient disaster recovery framework capable of swiftly restoring operations in the event of an outage. For years, organizations have relied on Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle’s premier disaster recovery technologies, to support mission-critical…
Introduction Ensuring uninterrupted business continuity is critical to success when designing applications. Achieving this requires a robust disaster recovery strategy designed to quickly restore functionality in case of disruptions. For years, businesses have trusted Oracle Exadata Database Service with Oracle’s premier disaster recovery technologies to power critical applications, both on-premises and within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).…
Introduction The Oracle Multicloud Capabilities application shows the availability status of the regions and services alongside the achieved and planned security certifications. Today, we extended the application to include the high availability and migration assets for Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle Database@AWS to make it easier to find and navigate the corresponding documentation,…
Introduction Since Oracle Database@Azure was released in December 2023, customer demand has been continuously increasing. Likewise, the number of collaterals about Oracle Database@Azure has been growing. To keep track of “everything” and for easier sharing with those who want to learn more, here is a collection of what has been released so far. I will…
Introduction In multicloud environments, while using resources from multiple cloud vendors, you usually deal with migrating data across the environments or keeping it in one cloud environment while accessing it from another. The Oracle Database DBMS_CLOUD PL/SQL package allows you to access data on OCI Object Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3 buckets, and Google…
Introduction Customers can deploy Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) on Oracle Database@Azure to benefit from Autonomous Database features in the Azure’s data center, next to their Azure applications, ensuring low latency and high performance. This blog post highlights the options to migrate your data from an Oracle database on-premises to ADB-S on Oracle Database@Azure. Option…
Introduction You can create a database link in the Oracle Autonomous Database to another Autonomous Database, to an Oracle Database that is not an Autonomous Database, or to Non-Oracle Databases. See the documentation for more details. This blog post shows how to create a database link from an Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure to…
Introduction Oracle Database@Azure became available in the US East region in December 2023. It allows you to create an Exadata infrastructure dedicated to you and run your Oracle RAC databases on it. Oracle Database@Azure gives you more choices to run your mission-critical Oracle Databases in a Multicloud Environment. Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure…
Introduction Customers moving their workloads from on-premises to the Cloud want to take advantage of the best features and lowest prices each public cloud provider offers alongside other benefits. Microsoft’s customers usually prefer to run their applications in Azure while continuing to rely on Oracle Database for data management using Oracle Autonomous Database and Exadata…
Introduction After creating a VM DB System via Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) in the previous blog post, we are going to see how to connect to the database host via SSH and to the CDB and PDB via SQL*Net from an Azure virtual machine, where usually your application will be running. The Environment…
Database Heartbeat 