By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the latest release software? Now we need to think differently. Because: The new software is released on Cloud first The major…
By Franck Pachot . Oracle 18c is out, in the Oracle Cloud, and the first thing I do with a new version is testing how long it takes to upgrade a previous version PDB by unplug/plug. Faster upgrade should be the benefit of having a slim dictionary where the system objects are reduced to metadata links and data links. However,…
By Franck Pachot . This is the big new feature of Oracle 18c about database software installation. Something that was needed for decades for the ease of software deployment. Piet de Visser raised this to Oracle a long time ago, and we were talking about that recently when discussing this new excitement to deploy software in Docker containers. Docker containers…
By Franck Pachot . My ODC appreciation blog post was about Javascript in the database running in the beta of the Oracle Database Multilingual Engine (MLE). Here I’ll detail my first test which is a comparison, in performance, between a package written in Javascript, running in the MLE, and one written and running in PL/SQL. I’ve downloaded the 12GB .ova…
By Franck Pachot . Tim Hall has launched the idea to post small blogs this day, from all the Oracle community, about an Oracle feature. I choose one feature that is only released in beta test for the moment: the Multilingual Engine (MLE) which is able to run Javascript stored procedures in the database. Why? When I first heard about…
By Franck Pachot . Larry Ellison has announced Oracle 18c to be the Autonomous Database, the no-human labor, and self-driven, database. Here is a quick recap of what it is behind the marketing words. My opinion only. Autonomous Since Oracle decided to be a public cloud PaaS provider, they announced ‘unmanaged’ and ‘managed’ services. The managed service for DBaaS is…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, I explained the announcement of the new release model, with Release Updates and Release Update Revisions replacing Proactive Bundle Patch and PSUs. Here is a description that will help you to plan your patching activity. Which DBA are you? There are currently a lot of discussions about the different types of DBAs.…
