Category: Oracle Cloud

From the Command Line into the to the Oracle Cloud – the ORACLE-DBCS-CLI Utility

The Oracle ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is a command-line interface tool to manage the lifecycle of your Database as as Service instances in cloud.oracle.com. You can create and delete instances, verify and apply patches, scale your instances up and down and many more. The advantage is that you can work with configuration files. And I like to work with such files, if I need 10 instances with the same shape, I have only to search and replace the instance name – fire! The ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is…

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cloud.oracle.com – Create a Storage Container for a Backup in the Cloud

Why to use the Oracle Backup  Cloud storage? During the instance creation process – the full deployed instance, not for the virtual machine – you can select if you want to store your database local or in the cloud – or both. The benefit to store a instance backup by RMAN in the cloud? Storage redundancy, easy access, full RMAN integration and with a service price of $33 / TB / Month it’s a real storage option. Here is the…

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Patching a DBaaS Database in the Oracle Cloud

To apply a Patch on a Database which is hosted by Oracle is done with one mouse click. This service is available only if you have selected the full database service during the DBaaS order process. To the manual: https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/dbcs_dbaas/CSDBI/GUID-50BDEF7D-A30E-4B32-BAE7-486538413E2D.htm#CSDBI3422 Patchset Availability As soon as a new Oracle patchset is available, you can see that in the database management dashboard of the selected database. The precheck function verifies if the selected database is ready to patch. Precheck Result After 2…

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