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 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 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 ZDM uses RMAN to perform an offline physical migration. It backs up the source database and instantiates a new database from this backup to the target environment. This is similar to cloning a database. The target database has no relationship to the source, so there is no data synchronization or fallback capability. No SQL*Net…
Introduction ZDM uses Oracle Data Guard to perform an online physical migration. This means: it backs up the source database, instantiates a standby database from this backup to the target environment, configures Data Guard to synchronize the source and target databases, and finally switches over to the target database. ZDM allows you to pause the…
Introduction ZDM version 21c supports logical migrations using Oracle GoldenGate as described in Part 2 or using the classical Data Pump export and import. This blog post provides a step by step instruction how to accordingly configure ZDM for Data Pump export and import with the minimal parameters required. Using Data Pump export and import…
Introduction ZDM version 21.3 supports logical migrations using Oracle GoldenGate. This makes it possible to migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database with zero downtime. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions on how to accordingly configure ZDM with the minimal parameters required. Data Pump will be used to create the initial load and GoldenGate extract and replicate…
Introduction Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) is a free-to-use software solution that allows you to automate your Oracle database migrations to Oracle Cloud. Initially, ZDM supported Data Guard-based migrations following the principles of Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). To support Standard Edition migrations, ZDM uses RMAN backup and restore instead. The new ZDM version 21c…
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