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 OracleDB for Azure (or, Oracle Database Service for Azure) simplifies multicloud deployments by providing an Oracle-managed interconnect between your Azure and OCI accounts. Customers running their workloads on Azure can now keep the application on Azure and move the Database to Oracle Cloud to benefit from Cloud Automation, Exadata Service, Oracle RAC, and more.…
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…
Introduction Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) automates and simplifies the Interconnect between Azure and Oracle Cloud. Additionally, it provides a Multicloud portal to create Oracle Databases with the same Azure portal experience. As of today, you can use ODSA for the following Oracle Database Cloud Services: This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to…
Introduction In previous blog posts, we talked about the benefits and considerations of multicloud. As cross-cloud network connectivity is a crucial part of multicloud deployments, this blog post discusses the options to connect Oracle Cloud to other Public Clouds. It highlights their latency, bandwidth, availability, reliability, costs, and more characteristics. Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Site-to-site Virtual…
Introduction Since the Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) has been recently announced, it has gained much traction. This comes as little surprise, as the new service offers an Oracle-managed and entirely automated way to enable multicloud solutions on Azure and OCI. But wait for a second! Microsoft and Oracle have already partnered for a…
Introduction I’m pretty sure you have already heard about the newly released Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) service. If not, then you missed something. Either case, here you get a summary of the background, challenges, features, benefits, and much more about ODSA. Multicloud In previous blog posts, we talked more in detail about the…
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, 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…
Database Heartbeat 