Oracle Database 18c

Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Release Schedule 4

I rarely blog twice a day – but this message is the one a good number of people have waited for quite a while. Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available for download from eDelivery as of now. The software is not on OTN or oracle.com yet in the usual download section. I’m blindly guessing that it will be there soon, maybe tonight already.

Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available

→ Please go to eDelivery (also known as the Oracle Software Cloud) and type into the search line:
“Oracle Database” – then hit …

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Oracle 18.3.0 on premises includes 1.4GB patches?

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Oracle Database 18c 13

Oracle Database 18.3.0 on premises is available for download on Linux since July 23, 2018. The other ports will follow soon. And via twitter I received a question why Oracle 18.3.0 on premises includes 1.4GB patches?

Oracle 18.3.0 on premises includes 1.4GB patches?

When you unzip the downloaded database image:

Oracle 18.3.0 on premises includes 1.4GB patches?

then you may discover the following folder .patch_storage of 1.4GB size:

[oracle@localhost .patch_storage]$ ls -lrt
total 40
drwxr-xr-x. 4 oracle dba 4096 Jul 18 19:39 28090523_Jul_14_2018_00_03_50
drwxr-xr-x. 4 oracle dba 4096 Jul 18 19:40 28090553_Jul_11_2018_19_20_31
drwxr-xr-x. 4 oracle dba 4096 Jul 18 19:41 27923415_Jul_15_2018_10_33_22
drwxr-xr-x. 8 oracle dba 4096
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Oracle Database 18.3.0 on premises available for download on Linux

Posted on July 23, 2018 by General 4

Finally … it took a bit longer than expected and many people have mailed me in the past days. But Oracle Database 18.3.0 on premises available for download on Linux.

Oracle Database 18.3.0 on premises available for download on Linux

The other ports may follow soon after. I can’t give dates but you can download Oracle Database 18.3.0 on-prem for Linux now from OTN:

Oracle Database 18.3.0 on premises available for download on Linux

Follow this link to access the download location:

The download gets you the zip file but not the rpm. Those may take a couple of weeks for unknown reasons.

And …

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ZDLRA ready for Oracle Database 18c

Posted on July 23, 2018 by MAA RMAN 7

ZDLRA is one of the best acronyms ever. It took me 5+ years to not mix up the sequence of characters 🙂 And even Larry made a joke about the name a while ago at his OOW keynote (I think it was 2016). ZDLRA stands for Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance. And that basically tells you what it is. Hence, it isn’t a bad acronym as it tells you straight forward what it does. Good news: ZDLRA ready for Oracle Database 18c.

ZDLRA ready for Oracle Database 18c

ZDLRA ready for Oracle Database 18cWhy am I writing about this? Some of the customers …

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Installing Oracle Database 18c

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Installation 4

Installing Oracle Database 18cThis blog post about Installing Oracle Database 18c applies to all Oracle 18c releases. I wrote a while ago about one very important change:

and explained that the installation is now image based. You’ll find other posts as part of my series on how to install and upgrade to Oracle Database 18c here:

Installing Oracle Database 18c

Oracle Database 18c on-premises is supposed to be generally available with the July 2018 …

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When will Oracle Database 18c be available on-prem?

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Oracle Database 18c 14

When will Oracle Database 18c be available on-prem?When will Oracle Database 18c be available on-prem? Some of you will answer: It is available already, isn’t it? And you are right. But I don’t want to blog just a marketing message but some facts. Others may ask: When will it be generally available on-premises?

==> July 23, 2018: Linux 18.3.0 on-prem is available – please click here <==

When will Oracle Database 18c be available on-prem?

As of today, March 20, 2018, Oracle Database 18c is available already in/for:

Actually …

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Oracle Database 18c released for Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Oracle Database 18c 14

Oracle Database 18c has been released Friday, February 16, 2018 in the Oracle Cloud and for Engineered Systems.

Oracle Database 18c released for Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems

What is new in Oracle Database 18c?

Please read this comprehensive description by Dominic Giles, Master Product Manager for Oracle Database on https://blogs.oracle.com/database/oracle-database-18c-:-now-available-on-the-oracle-cloud-and-oracle-engineered-systems. Dominic summarizes the most important features in the areas of Multitenant, In-Memory, Sharding, Performance, High Availability, Security, Spatial/Graph and of course Developer features.

You’d like to read more about New Features?

In case you’d been now interested please see the New Features Guide for more details in Oracle Database 18c.

Well, and there’s not only a New Features …

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