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database option - Spatial and Graphics

Today we are going to focus on the Spatial and Graphics option of the Oracle Database. Most business information has a location component, such as customer...

Today we are going to focus on the Spatial and Graphics option of the Oracle Database. Most business information has a location component, such as customer addresses, sales territories and physical assets. Businesses can take advantage of their geographic information by incorporating location analysis and intelligence into their information systems. The geospatial data features of Oracle Spatial and Graph option support complex geographic information systems (GIS)...

database option - Data Guard part 2

Normally the part two of the option pack has been a hands on tutorial or examples liberally lifted from Oracle by Example, OpenWorld hands on labs, or the GSE...

Normally the part two of the option pack has been a hands on tutorial or examples liberally lifted from Oracle by Example, OpenWorld hands on labs, or the GSE Demo environment. I even went to an internal repository site and the database product manager site and all of the tutorials were for an existing database or labs on a virtual machine. None of these were easy to replicate and all of them assumed a virtual machine with a pre installed instance. None of the examples were...

database option - RMAN

Technically, database backup is not an option with database cloud services, it is bundled into the service as it is with on premise systems. Previously, we...

Technically, database backup is not an option with database cloud services, it is bundled into the service as it is with on premise systems. Previously, we talked about backup and restore through the database cloud console. Unfortunately, before we an talk about Data Guard and how to set it up we need to dive a little deeper into RMAN. The first step in setting up Data Guard is to replicate data between two database instances. The recommended way of doing this is with RMAN....

database option - Data Guard

To steal liberally from Larry Carpenter's book on Data Guard, Data Guard is a product of more than 15 years of continuous development. We can trace the roots of...

To steal liberally from Larry Carpenter's book on Data Guard, Data Guard is a product of more than 15 years of continuous development. We can trace the roots of today’s Data Guard as far back as Oracle7 in the early 1990s. Media recovery was used to apply archived redo logs to a remote standby database, but none of the automation that exists today was present in the product.Today we are going to look at the material on Data Guard and discuss the differences between Data...

database option - multi tenant part 2

Yesterday we looked at the concept behind multi-tenant and talked about the economics and operational benefits of using the option. Today we are going to look...

Yesterday we looked at the concept behind multi-tenant and talked about the economics and operational benefits of using the option. Today we are going to look at examples and technical details. Fortunately, this is a hot topic and there are a ton of interviews, tutorials, and videos showing you how to do this. The best place to start is Oracle Technology Network - multitenant. This site lists seven offerings from Oracle Education, six online tutorials, and four video demos....

database option - multi tenant

Before we dive into what multi-tenant databases are, let's take a step back and define a few terms. With an on premise system we can have a computer loaded with...

Before we dive into what multi-tenant databases are, let's take a step back and define a few terms. With an on premise system we can have a computer loaded with a database series of databases. Historically the way that this was done was by booting the hardware with an operating system and loading the database onto the operating system. We load the OS onto the root file system or "/" in Unix/Solaris/Linux. We create a /u01 directory to hold the ORACLE_HOME or binaries for the...

database options - review and looking forward

For the past two weeks we have been looking at database as a service (DBaaS) offered as platform as a service (PaaS) on the Oracle Public Cloud. We started this...

For the past two weeks we have been looking at database as a service (DBaaS) offered as platform as a service (PaaS) on the Oracle Public Cloud. We started this journey on the 2nd of this month by looking at the differences between Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, High Performance Edition, and Extreme Performance Edition. To quickly review, Standard Edition is the basic database with table encryption as the only option. This is a full feature database without the ability...

database option - backup and restore

Backup and recovery abilities are arguably the most critical skills required of a database administrator. Recovery Manager (RMAN) is Oracle’s standard backup...

Backup and recovery abilities are arguably the most critical skills required of a database administrator. Recovery Manager (RMAN) is Oracle’s standard backup and recovery tool; every Oracle DBA should be familiar with utilizing RMAN. Some DBAs use alternate tools since RMAN is an Oracle specific tool to backup data in a database. Alternatives include Veritas Backup Exec, Comvault Sympana, Legato Networker, EMC and NetApp tools, and other packages. I am not going to list books...

database option - diagnostics

Keeping a database tuned is a full time job. Automating some of these tasks helps a DBA support more databases and reduce the time required to generate the...

Keeping a database tuned is a full time job. Automating some of these tasks helps a DBA support more databases and reduce the time required to generate the data. Automatic report generation is a good way of getting these reports. One of the questions I constantly get asked is what is included with PaaS or DBaaS and what is done for me. With DBaaS, database tuning and diagnostics are not part of the services provided. The DBA still needs to look for processes that are holding...