Oracle 12.2 – how to get access to Enterprise Manager 12c Database Express

Today I have built in my OL 7.3 VM two container databases to verify the new feature in the Enterprise Manager 12c Database Express login screen where I can go direct into a container. The benefit is that I don’t have to set a separate port for each pluggable database anymore. The DBCA has created me a fresh container database called ZH38 and a pluggable database ZHPDB01. I have enable the checkbox to configure EM 12c Database Express for Port…

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Oracle 12.2 – New Features I like – Part 1: Multitenant “Hot Clones”

I like the Oracle Multitenant architecture which was introduced in 12.1. But the concept to clone a source database to multiple copies in a small step had one big problem.  In Oracle 12.1, to clone a pluggable database the source database had to be in state read-only. In 12.2 is it not longer necessary to set the source pluggable database in state read-only, the source database has not to be modified to create a clone. Oracle calls it in the…

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Enterprise Manager 13cR2 – How to apply Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719

My fresh EM13cR2 installation showed me that there is a patch for the Weblogic environment available. This patch was released in July 2016: Patch Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719. This patchset has included 157 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is marked in My Oracle Support as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13cR2 server. This blog post describes the apply…

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Connect your Enterprise Manager 13cR2 with the Oracle Database Backup Service

In EM13cR1, it was the first time when the Oracle Database Backup Service was integrated . In Release 2 the configuration menu was extended, a storage container can be defined now e.g. for a better organization and overview of the backups. This blog post shows you how to configure the Oracle Database Backup Service in Enterprise Manager 13cR2 and how to prepare a database for a cloud backup. All you need is the Oracle Database Backup Service, a trial works…

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Enterprise Manager 13c – Let’s use the Hybrid Agent for Amazon EC2 and Azure Instances

I like the concept behind the Oracle Enterprise Manager Hybrid Cloud Architecture to connect my on-premise OMS with targets in the Oracle cloud. The Agent communicates via SSH tunnel to target servers, no other ports than SSH 22 are open against the world wide web. An I was interested to find out, if the installation of such an agent works for other cloud providers than Oracle too. Create a Oracle Linux Instance in Amazon AWS I have created a small…

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