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…
Introduction Oracle Cloud provides you the option to enable automatic backups with the click of a button. In case you have different backup requirements, you still have the flexibility to create your manual backup configurations and create your backups via command-line tools or directly using RMAN. This applies to VM DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service,…
Introduction Oracle Cloud VM DB Systems provide fully automated backups that can be enabled by the click of a button. The backups are stored in an Oracle-managed bucket. The Cloud Tooling enables you to use these backups for an in-place restore or create a new database in the same Availability Domain. In case you want…
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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…
Introduction Using Data Pump export and import is quite straightforward. Letting ZDM do it all for you (export, copy, import, and clean up) makes it possible to test your migration multiple times for no additional effort, and then when you are ready for the real migration, you are sure that exactly the same steps are…
Introduction What comes into your mind first when you hear the term “licensing”? Boring? Complex? Well, I can’t promise you to make it fun, but what I definitely promise you is to make it easy to understand, at least in Oracle Cloud. In this blog post, we will explain what database options can be used…
Introduction Oracle Multitenant has been around since Oracle Database version 12c was released in 2013. With that, the previous architecture, since then called non-CDB was deprecated. Starting with version 21c, non-CDB architecture is not supported and available anymore. In the Oracle Cloud, all databases created via Cloud Tooling use the Multitenant Architecture. On VM DB…
Introduction Connecting to an Oracle Database is very straightforward. However, when you encounter an issue you might struggle with the root cause and how to solve it. For better troubleshooting, it is vital to understand the steps and checks being executed from the moment you hit the ENTER button. In this blog post, we will…
Introduction A serial console connection to bare metal or virtual machine DB system allows you to manage and troubleshoot your system in single-user mode using an SSH connection, e.g. if the boot volume becomes full causing a standard SSH connection to fail with permission denied errors. In this blog post, we will demonstrate step-by-step guidance to…
Database Heartbeat 