Introduction Mounting an Object Storage bucket as a local file system simplifies file management and provides you with additional cost-efficient storage space that can be used as if it were on the local server. Once the bucket is mounted, you simply access, add, and remove any files in the local folder, and the changes will…
Introduction In multicloud environments, while using resources from multiple cloud vendors, you usually deal with migrating data across the environments or keeping it on 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, and Amazon S3 buckets or…
Introduction In multicloud environments, while using resources from multiple cloud vendors, you usually deal with migrating data across the environments or keeping it on 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, and Amazon S3 buckets or…
Introduction Configuring GoldenGate for database migrations might be complex and require deep knowledge and expertise in GoldenGate. Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) requires only a response file with the needed parameters. It configures and runs everything for you automatically to achieve (near) zero downtime while migrating your Oracle database to Oracle Cloud. This blog post provides…
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 SYSDATE is a SQL function that returns the current date and time set for the operating system of the database server. CURRENT_DATE returns the current date in the session time zone. The same story applies to SYSTIMESTAMP and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. When database and application servers are set to the same time zone, both functions will return the…
Introduction To directly export and import data to and from Object Storage, you need the DBMS_CLOUD PL/SQL package, which was initially introduced in Oracle Autonomous Database. DBMS_CLOUD was made available for non-Autonomous Oracle Databases with version 21c and later backported to 19.9. However, direct import and export from and to Object Storage using the Data…
Introduction From the very first version, Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) supports physical online, and offline migrations using RMAN and Data Guard. However, every migration job was creating a new RMAN backup from the source database to be used to create the target database. Starting with ZDM version 21.2, you can skip the full backup…
Introduction Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) provides great automation capabilities to migrate your Oracle Database to Oracle Cloud. After supporting Linux-based platforms, the new version 21.2 also supports cross-platform and even cross-cloud migrations. With this enhancement, now it’s possible to migrate an AWS RDS for Oracle to Oracle Autonomous Database using the offline logical migration method…
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…
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