Data is one of the most valuable and crucial asset for any company, hence businesses spend huge amounts of money on their enterprise software to ensure its safety and availability. RAC and clustering are some examples of the ways companies practice for high availability and performance of their enterprise and databases. However there are still […]
Setting up Oracle 12c Active Data Guard Database
In the Multitenant world, the PDB Database is considered an independent database but the operational tasks performed at the CDB level effect all the PDB databases plugged into it. The task of setting up of a Data Guard, switching or failing over are all performed at the CDB level. When the Data Guard is initially setup, with the CDB database, all PDB’s are also replicated to the target. Read more here.
Database Specific Announcements at Oracle Open World 2013
So what are the database specific announcements coming out of this year’s open world? Well, nothing extraordinary if you ask me to just point it out. Oracle 12c was announced at last year’s open world and Oracle made it available for public use just a couple of months ahead of this year’s Open World. So […]
Key Takeaways from Larry Ellison Keynote at Open World 2013
The grandest stage of Oracle technology is already set and is in full swing. On Sept 22nd the CEO of Oracle corporation Larry Ellison opened the show with his keynote. Larry Ellison made three major announcements during his keynote. Here is a recap of Larry Ellison’s keynote at Open World with a focus on announcements […]
Oracle 12c Database Extended Data Types
Regardless of the character set being used in your database, the maximum size for Varchar2, NVarchar2 remains at 4K and 2k for RAW datatype. If you try to create a column exceeding these limits then you will get the error message. This was a limitation but was also a contradiction to the data type limit […]