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#OOW19 : Oracle open world updates

Oracle Open world 2019 – Interesting updates so far.

Oracle Cloud – Free Tier – Always Free Services- 1 ADW, 1 ATP , 2 Compute services always free Oracle Database 20c BlockChain table type Desupport of non-cdb architecture, facilitating 3 PDB’s with no cost Native Persistent Database Memory (PMEM) – Automated Machine Learning Binary Json […]

Oracle 19c : Clear flashback logs periodically​ & Automatically

Previous versions of Oracle database needs to manually manage the flashback area i.e flashback_retention_target to adjust according to growth of flashback logs​ Or manually backup the logs/backupsets to tape or to delete them​

But from Oracle 19c onwards, the management of space in the fast recovery area is simplified. Oracle Database monitors flashback logs […]

Oracle 19c : Dry Run mode for Grid Setup

In Oracle 19c Grid, Run the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installer in dry-run upgrade mode to determine if the system is ready for upgrade.​

To perform Oracle Grid Infrastructure dry-run upgrade, create a new Grid home with the necessary user group permissions, extract the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c gold image to the new Grid home, and […]

Oracle 19c : Standard Ediction 2 – RAC is Desupported​

Desupport of Oracle Real Application Clusters for Standard Edition 2 (SE2) Database Edition​. Starting with Oracle Database 19c, Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is not supported in Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2).​

Upgrading Oracle Database Standard Edition databases that use Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) functionality from earlier releases to Oracle Database […]

Oracle 19c : ADDM analysis at PDB Level​

ADDM does not work in a pluggable database (PDB) by default, because automatic AWR snapshots are disabled by default in a PDB.

Starting 19c , To use ADDM in a PDB, you must enable automatic AWR snapshots in the PDB by setting the AWR_PDB_AUTOFLUSH_ENABLED initialization parameter to TRUE and AWR snapshot interval greater than […]

Oracle 19c: Auto Indexing Feature testing – Onprem

Edited this post on 30-Apr, to correct my command in the test.

Update the post on 22-May, not working in on-prem as expected.

Whilst the documentation say’s the auto indexing feature is not available on-prem ones, I tried to test it out.

Command to enable auto index mode is below, we have options “Implement”, “Report-Only”, […]

Oracle 19c Install using RPM with vagrant+ansible

Hi

In this post we will see how to install Oracle 19c Database using RPM method with Vagrant Virtual box and via ansible playbook.

Pre-reqs

You need to have vagrant installed in your machine.

Steps:

Download the repository for Vagrant and Ansible playbook here Download 19c database rpm from Oracle downloads and copy into your […]

Oracle 19c : Docker Image & Features availability

Hi

While I am exploring the Oracle 19c Database, I found that docker images are already available in https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDatabase/SingleInstance/dockerfiles/19.3.0

Along side, here is the excerpt from documentation , automatic indexing , quarantine, real time statistics are only available on Cloud versions not on normal EE on prem databases. So , Hail cloud 🙂

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/dblic/Licensing-Information.html#GUID-AB354617-6614-487E-A022-7FC9A5A08472

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Oracle 19c available for download

Hello All,

Oracle 19c is available officially for download , cant wait to test automatic indexing feature. Keep you posted.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

Thanks

Suresh