Introduction Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Command Line Interface (CLI) is a small-footprint tool that lets you create and manage resources in Oracle Cloud using a command line interface. It enables you to automate tasks and makes things easier. The Quickstart documentation provides quick installation instructions. However, installations via RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) on Base…
Introduction Oracle Cloud provides automated resource provisioning and management by the click of the button, literally. You just login into the OCI Console, which is a web-based interface, and click on the button to provision and manage your resources. However, managing large environments that way might become challenging. Additionally, you might want to execute some…
Introduction After covering how to use the OCI CLI and Custom Database Software Images to patch and upgrade databases on VM DB Systems in the previous blogs, we are now going to see how to do this on Exadata systems. Exadata systems allow to provision multiple database homes of different software versions and having multiple…
Introduction When it comes to create, patch, or upgrade your Oracle database in the cloud, Oracle provides Database Software Images that include a specific Release Update (RU), e.g. 18.11, 19.7 or 19.9. However, if you need some additional one-off (interim) patches on top of that RU, you would have to apply them manually afterwards. This…
Introduction Patching and Upgrade your Oracle Databases in the Oracle Cloud is as easy as pushing the button in the web-based Cloud Console. However, if you want to schedule the task, and especially if you are planning to patch and upgrade tens or maybe hundreds of databases, then the OCI CLI is the tool of…
Introduction Oracle offers the Cloud Console, which is an easy to use web-based interface to create and manage all Oracle cloud resources. However, in many use cases it is more efficient to do your tasks programmatically using command line tools instead of clicking on every button in the web browser manually: The CLIs are procedural…
Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates the human labor associated with database tuning, security, backups, patching, upgrade, and other routine management tasks traditionally had to be performed manually. Other tasks like restore and recovery, migration, cloning, and moving data are done on demand (manually), but differently and more conveniently than on-premise. Data Pump is a very useful utility to extract…
How many Databases are you running in test and development environments? On-premise, you buy the licenses, the hardware, pay for support, and pay the operation cost! 24×7! BUT! In most cases, nobody is using these databases at weekends, at night, and in different stages of the project. In the Cloud, you pay only for what…
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