Compilation of Oracle

Database Blogs: OLTP

Capabilities & Beyond

Cloud, Autonomous, Exadata, ODA, ZDLRA, Database Core

Capabilities, Microservices, Blockchain

August 2020
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Disclaimer 2
Introduction 4
Exadata 4
Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 4
Oracle Autonomous Database – Dedicated 5
Oracle Database In-Memory 5
Oracle Database HA/Scalability/MAA 5
Oracle Database Sharding 5
Oracle Database Backup & Recovery 5
Oracle Database Compression 5
Oracle Database – General / Database Cloud 6
Oracle Database Blockchain 6
Oracle Database Microservices 6

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INTRODUCTION
This document provides a compiled list of blogs published by Oracle Product Development in the following areas, till
date in CY 2020. This document will be kept updated.
● Exadata
● Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)
● Oracle Autonomous Database – Dedicated
● Oracle Database In-Memory
● Oracle Database: HA/Scalability/MAA
● Oracle Database Sharding
● Oracle Database Backup & Recovery
● Oracle Database Compression
● Oracle Database – General / Database Cloud
● Oracle Database Blockchain
● Oracle Database Microservices

EXADATA
1. Exadata System Software Updates - August 2020 - Gavin Parish
2. Exadata Cloud@Customer X8M: The Best “In Datacenter” Database Cloud Platform - Bob Thome
3. The Gravity of Cloud Data Management - Ashish Ray
4. Exadata Software Updates Explained - Gavin Parish
5. Exadata System Software 20.1 - Gavin Parish
6. Gen 2 ExaC@C New Features:: Scaling OCPUs w/o Connectivity - Manish Shah
7. Gen 2 ExaC@C New Features:: Multiple VMs - Manish Shah
8. Gen 2 ExaC@C New Features:: DB Sync Part-1 - Manish Shah
9. Gen 2 ExaC@C New Features: Shared Oracle Home - Manish Shah
10. It’s Time to Replace your Private Database Cloud - Bob Thome
11. Exadata System Software Updates – May 2020 - Gavin Parish
12. Persistent Memory in Exadata X8M - Chris Craft
13. Exadata System Software Updates – April 2020 - Gavin Parish
14. Resource Manager Using Consumer Groups - Chris Craft
15. Manage Resources Between Databases and Containers - Chris Craft
16. Oracle Exadata Cloud Service: Bring Your Business to the Cloud - Bob Thome
17. Exadata System Software Updates - March 2020 - Gavin Parish
18. Ten Tips for Database Performance Tuning on Exadata - Gavin Parish & Cecilia Grant
19. Exadata System Software Updates - February 2020 - Gavin Parish
20. Exadata Musings: How Exadata Touches Our Daily Lives - Ashish Ray
21. Exadata System Software Updates - January 2020 - Gavin Parish

ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE (ODA)

1. Oracle Database Appliance and TimesTen - Paul Tsien
2. Simplified Data Guard Integration with Oracle Database Appliance - Carlos Ortiz
3. Oracle Database 19c Support for Oracle Database Appliance - Phil Stephenson
4. Standard Edition High Availability for Oracle Database Appliance - Phil Stephenson
5. Announcing ODA EM Plug-In Releases 13.4.1.0.0. and 13.2.3.0.0. - Phil Stephenson

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ORACLE AUTONOMOUS DATABASE – DEDICATED
1. Autonomous Database comes to the customer datacenter - Robert Greene
2. Can an autonomous database run at the user’s location? - Robert Greene
3. Is your admin snooping on your data? - Kris Bhanushali
4. Autonomous Database - Dedicated : Operational Notifications - Robert Greene

ORACLE DATABASE IN-MEMORY

1. Database In-Memory Base Level Feature Now Available in 19.8 RU - Andy Rivenes
2. Ask TOM Office Hours Follow Up - Andy Rivenes
3. Oracle Database In-Memory Base Level Feature - Andy Rivenes
4. Oracle Database 20c Automatic In-Memory Enhancements - Andy Rivenes
5. myToys: Upto 10x Faster Analytics With Database In-Memory - Markus Kissling

ORACLE DATABASE HA/SCALABILITY/MAA

1. Application Continuity - a Database Feature for Developers - Ian Cookson
2. Join the Oracle MAA Webcast Series - Markus Michalewicz
3. Autonomous Data Guard: Disaster Recovery Protection with a Couple Clicks in the Cloud - Glen Hawkins
4. Automatic block media recovery to the rescue - Pieter Van Puymbroeck
5. AWR on ADG - Pieter
6. Standard Edition High Availability Released - See What's New - Markus Michalewicz
7. OCI CLI – Tooling Made Easy - PIeter Van Puymbroeck
8. The Bronze MAA Tier: Single Instance HA Environment - Glen Hawkins
9. Far Sync, Redo Routes and Priorities with Alternates - Pieter Van Puymbroeck
10. Announcing: Standard Edition High Availability - Markus Michalewicz
11. Connect Strings in OCI - Pieter Van Puymbroeck
12. Active Data Guard DML Redirect: Tuning Read-Mostly Workloads - Glen Hawkins
13. DBMS_ROLLING Explained - Pieter Van Puymbroeck
14. Choose Your Shape - Pieter Van Puymbroeck
15. Upgrade to Oracle RAC 19c with Zero downtime - Anil Nair
16. Edition-Based Redefinition – Zero-downtime application upgrades - Saurav Das
17. Under the Covers of Scalability and Availability - Anil Nair

ORACLE DATABASE SHARDING

1. Sharding Oracle Database Cloud Service - Shailesh Dwivedi

2. Sharding with Kubernetes and Docker containers in Oracle Cloud (OKE) - Shailesh Dwivedi

ORACLE DATABASE BACKUP & RECOVERY

1. Migration of AWS RDS Oracle Database to OCI via RMAN - Marco Calmasini
2. Migrating RMAN backups from S3 to OCI - Marco Calmasini
3. Database Cyber-Attack Protection with ZDLRA - Tim Chien
4. Kickoff Backup & Recovery in the New Year! - Tim Chien

ORACLE DATABASE COMPRESSION

1. Shrink DDL Supports SecureFiles LOB Segments – New in Oracle Database 20c - Gregg Christman
2. Automatic Data Optimization for Indexes – Oracle Database 20c Enhancement - Gregg Christman

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 3. Planning or Performing an Advanced Compression Proof of Concept? Get this Oracle White Paper. - Gregg
Christman
4. When to Use the Various Types of Oracle Data Compression - Gregg Christman
5. Should You Compress the Entire Database or Not? A Common Question. - Gregg Christman

ORACLE DATABASE – GENERAL / DATABASE CLOUD

1. Dynamic CPU Scaling in Oracle Database 19c - Chris Craft
2. Persistent Memory Primer - Chris Craft
3. Database Consolidation – Why and How - Chris Craft
4. The future is Data-Driven - Maria Colgan
5. Many Single-Purpose Databases versus a Converged Database - Maria Colgan
6. What is a Converged Database? - Maria Colgan

ORACLE DATABASE BLOCKCHAIN

1. Advancing Enterprise Blockchain with the Latest Generation of Oracle Blockchain Platform - Mark Rakhmilevich
2. Oracle and HACERA Team Up On Multi-Cloud Blockchain-Based MiPasa Data Platform to Strengthen COVID-19
Response - Mark Rakhmilevich

3. Oracle Joins Industry Leaders at BlockDown to Discuss Supply Chain - Mary Hall
4. Oracle Participates in Virtual Consensus 2020 with Hyperledger - Mary Hall
5. You Too Can Quickly Build a Blockchain POC Using Pre-assembled Oracle Cloud Tools - Mark Rakhmilevich
6. Webcast: Blockchain for Supply Chain and Logistics - Mary Hall
7. Blockchain Inside Oracle Database 20c - Ulrike Schwinn
8. Oracle at Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 - Mary Hall
9. Enterprise Blockchain Highlights from the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 - Mark Rakhmilevich & Mary Hall
10. Blockchain Tables Extend Oracle Database Multi-model Architecture - Mark Rakhmilevich
11. Native Blockchain Tables Extend Oracle Database’s Multi-model Converged Architecture - Mark Rakhmilevich
12. Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Blockchain Networks with Oracle Blockchain Platform Enterprise Edition - Mark
Rakhmilevich
13. Consuming Blockchain Events via Oracle Functions and OCI Streams - Mark Rakhmilevich
14. Extending Oracle Blockchain Events with OCI - Part 1 (Introduction) - Tamer Qumhieh

ORACLE DATABASE MICROSERVICES

1. How a Converged Database Simplifies the Persistence Layer for Microservices - Sanjay Goil

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