Cloud DBA

17/02/2025

Oracle Database@AWS lets you migrate your Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle RAC workloads, to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure or Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure within AWS.

Oracle Database@AWS enables near real-time analytics and machine learning by integrating directly with AWS Analytics services through zero-ETL to unify data across Oracle and AWS. Further, you can integrate with AWS generative AI services to accelerate innovation.

17/11/2023

11/11/2023

Are you excited about what’s coming with Oracle Database 23c but don’t have the time yet to go full in? What about bite sized intros instead? a few blog post, videos, and a link to the docs? Have a look at oracle.com/database/23c/ - new features and examples dropping every week.

Discover endless possibilities for developing microservices and graph and relational applications with Database 23.

09/08/2023

https://mikedietrichde.com/2023/08/08/oradiff-is-live-compare-two-oracle-database-and-patch-releases/

Did you ever wanted to find out the differences between two Oracle database releases? Today, I am super-super excited. Especially, since this was a long journey. And I have to thank our entire team…

06/05/2023

Do you want to learn more about

Oracle Database 19c / 23c :
RELEASE AND PATCHING STRATEGIES

Then it is time to REGISTER NOW:
http://tinyurl.com/VC16DP
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 16:00h CET

no.16 is for you. Includes GI Patching - and much more.

13/12/2022

A change in Oracle 12.2 and 19c with MV Refresh Stats Collection!!!

It’s not easy for me to put the topic into a searchable title for this blog post. The feature or change I will write about today came in actually with Oracle Database 12.2.0.1. But since many…

13/12/2022

The Data Pump Bundle Patches get released on top of every RU since over a year now. But a real issue with missing files got detected recently. So in case you had applied Data Pump Bundle Patches: You may need to download and apply again.

The Data Pump Bundle Patches get released on top of every RU since over a year now. But a real issue with missing files got detected recently. So in case you had applied Data Pump Bundle Patches: Y…

13/12/2022

Gradual password rollover allows a database user to have two valid passwords at the same time.

This is a great feature in 19c, making life a lot easier to do large scale password changes without impacting applications.

This was a new feature added to 19.12, so if you are on an older version of 19c, you need to patch.

I just wrapped up a webinar this week, and it went well. Once of the folks attending asked about a feature I have beeb really enjoying in 19c. This feature called gradual password rollover allows a database user to have two valid passwords at the same time. Yes, you heard that correctly… TWO DIFFE...

13/12/2022

Good news for everyone using JavaScript in Oracle Database 21c: the team has released the API documentation 📕 on Github.

Writing JavaScript code in Oracle Database 21c has just become even simpler. 🙂

Multilingual Engine (MLE) allows developers to run JavaScript code in Oracle Database 21c on Linux x86-64. The JavaScript implementation comes with an extensive API allowing you to interact with the database and exchange information with PL/SQL. In addition, native Oracle types can be used with the....

11/12/2022

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) integration

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports integration with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). You can now transfer files between the RDS for Oracle DB instance and Amazon EFS file system. Amazon EFS is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of durability and up to 99.99% (4....