DBCA New Features Oracle 19c
In Oracle 19c a number of new features have been added to DBCA in silent mode. In Oracle 18c, we could clone a PDB both via the GUI DBCA as well as using the dbca -silent -createPluggableDatabase...
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SQL*Plus New Features in Oracle 12c Release 2 and 18c
A number of new features were added in Oracle 12c Release 2 and Oracle 18c related to SQL*Plus. Let us have a quick look at some of these new features and how they can be used. Oracle 18c SET...
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SQLcl – SQL Command Line Interface Top Features
SQLcl or also known as SQL Command Interface was earlier available as a stand alone utility which we could download – it is now bundled in the Oracle 18c and Oracle 19c software (as well as 12c Release...
View ArticleOracle 18c New Feature Private Temporary Tables
Active Data Guard databases are now no longer just ‘read-only’ databases – they have now become ‘read-mostly’ databases which is primarily used for reporting purposes but also allows to some extent DML...
View ArticleOracle 19c New Feature Automatic Flashback of Standby Database
One of the new features in Oracle 19c is that either when a flashback or point-in-time recovery is performed on the primary database in an Oracle Data Guard configuration, the same operation is also...
View ArticleOracle Data Guard Broker New Features and Creating a CDB Standby Database via...
Oracle 12c Release 2 introduced the ability to execute a DGMGRL command script via the @ command as well as the ability to call host operating system commands via the HOST command. A number of new Data...
View ArticleOracle 19c New Feature Automatic Indexing
Automatic Indexing is a new feature in Oracle 19c which automatically creates, rebuilds, and drops indexes in a database based on the application workload. The index management task is now dynamically...
View ArticleApplying the July 2019 Database Release Update Patch
This note describes the steps used to apply the latest July 2019 Database Release Update Patch for Oracle 12c Release 2. The environment is single instance Multitenant database. Notes 1)Review MOS note...
View ArticleOracle 18c New Feature – Online Partitioning Strategy Modification
In Oracle 12c Release 2, a new feature was added whereby we could convert a non-partitioned table to a partitioned table with a MODIFY clause added to the ALTER TABLE SQL statement. In addition, the...
View ArticleOracle 19c New Feature Hybrid Partitioned Tables
In Oracle 12c Release 2, one of the new features was the ability to create partitions on External tables. New in Oracle 19c is the feature where we can create a Hybrid Partitioned table – so some...
View ArticleOracle 19c New Feature Compare Execution Plans with DBMS_XPLAN.COMPARE_PLANS
In Oracle 19c, a new sub-program called COMPARE_PLANS has been added to DBMS_XPLAN. With this new functionality, we can take a reference plan and compare it with some other execution plan – it could...
View Article19c New Feature DBCA Pluggable Database remote clone and relocate
A new feature in Oracle 19c is the ability to use DBCA to not only perform a remote clone of a PDB, but also to relocate a PDB from one Container Database to another. Let us have a look an example...
View ArticleOracle 18c Multitenancy New Features – Snapshot Carousel, CDB Fleet and...
SNAPSHOT CAROUSEL A PDB Snapshot is a point-in-time copy of a Pluggable Database. We can create snapshots either manually using the SNAPSHOT clause of CREATE or ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE command, or...
View ArticlePluggable Database Cloning using Snapshot Copy
We can clone a PDB using snapshots of the underlying storage via the SNAPSHOT COPY clause of the CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE statement. Performing PDB clones using a snapshot copy reduces the time...
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Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Marketplace (Part 1)
Oracle Cloud Marketplace (https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com) is an online store selling a wide variety of business applications and services which can complement an existing Oracle Cloud...
View ArticleMigrate data in real-time from OCI Classic to OCI using MV2ADB and Oracle...
In example we will use a combination of Oracle Cloud Marketplace GoldenGate and the MV2ADB tool to migrate data in real-time from an Oracle 12c database hosted on Gen 1 OCI Classic infrastructure to...
View ArticleData migration to Autonomous Database using MV2ADB
Move to Autonomous Database (MV2ADB) is a tool developed by Oracle (thanks Ruggero Citton, great work!) to fully automate the process of migrating data both from on-premise as well as OCI Classic Gen...
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Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Marketplace (Part 2)
Connect to the GoldenGate Cloud Marketplace Node Identify the Public IP Address of the GoldenGate Cloud Marketplace compute node and connect via PuTTY using the saved PPK private key. (note we had to...
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Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Marketplace (Part 3)
In this example, we will perform replication from an Oracle 12c Release 1 database hosted on GEN 1 OCI Classic environment to an Oracle 19c Autonomous (ATP) database using Oracle GoldenGate on Cloud...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Marketplace GoldenGate Classic Environment
To launch Goldengate via GGSCI we need to enter “ggsci” followed by the “version” -bash-4.2$ which ggsci /usr/local/bin/ggsci -bash-4.2$ ggsci Usage: /usr/local/bin/ggsci <oracle-version>...
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