October 2018 archive

Oct 29

The best upcoming features in Oracle Database 19c

In the Oracle Open World 2018 event that happened in San Francisco last week, from October 22nd to 25th, much has been said about the trends and strategy paths that Oracle is taking in both OCI and in Oracle Database. As we DBA's are always excited about the upcoming features, I will share below some …

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Oct 11

Howto backup Oracle Cloud Infrastructure metadata

As of today (October 2018), there is still no internal capability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to backup the metadata of all the objects you have (like computes, volumes, network, users, etc). This would be indeed a great feature and prefer to believe that Oracle is working to deploy it. Meanwhile, I have some customers that …

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