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…
Before we begin, huge kudos to my colleague Sebastian Solbach for working on this blog post. Introduction Mission-critical applications rely on 24/7 availability to maintain business operations. The database is the most critical component in every software architecture; therefore, it is compelling to implement a strategy that maximizes data availability, reliability, and protection. Oracle Data…
Introduction Oracle Multitenant allows you to copy and move Pluggable Databases (PDBs) across Container Databases (CDBs) in various ways, including PDB (Refreshable) Clones, PDB Relocate, and PDB Unplug and Plug. Unplug and Plug might be preferred if you are dealing with very large databases, as copying the data files over scp may be faster than…
Introduction For ZDM Logical Online migrations to Exadata Cloud@Customer you will be running Oracle GoldenGate on-premises instead of on the Marketplace image on Oracle Cloud. Oracle GoldenGate keeps your source and target databases in sync and enables you to achieve zero to negligible downtime for your Oracle database migrations across database versions and platforms. This…
Introduction Oracle Database runs everywhere: on-premises, on Oracle Cloud, on non-Oracle Clouds, and in multicloud environments. For Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud and Oracle Database@Azure, automatic backups are available and recommended to Autonomous Recovery Service, which provides immutability by default. For Oracle databases running elsewhere, consider having an (additional) backup to OCI Object…
The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) product management team invites you to attend its next MAA Summit for informative and interactive sessions on Oracle Database high availability and disaster recovery, Oracle Vector Search, and Exadata MAA. Learn about what’s new and provide your feedback directly to Oracle product management. When and Where Tuesday, May 14,…
Introduction Oracle RAC and Oracle Active Data Guard provide high availability and disaster recovery for the Oracle Database. During maintenance operations such as patching and upgrades or in case of failures and outages, applications can reconnect to another active Oracle RAC instance or to the Data Guard standby database. Oracle Application Continuity extends the high…
Database Heartbeat 