Tag: Oracle

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Lenz Grimmer; We’re excited to share that Marcelo Altmann from the Percona Server Engineering Team has just been promoted from Oracle ACE Associate to Oracle ACE. Congratulations! The Oracle ACE Program recognizes and rewards community members for their technical contributions to the Oracle community. Marcelo initially joined Percona as a senior support engineer in our global services organization, where he helped customers with running their MySQL-based environments. In early 2020, he joined our Server Engineering team and has been actively involved in the development of Percona Server for MySQL and Percona XtraBackup since then. Marcelo’s contributions ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; GT Cup 2021 For racing, as for the cloud, performance matters; and a few second faster will make a difference between win and lose.   Team Greystone GT and Oracle MySQL Database Service with HeatWave score maiden race win with Mason and Lancaster in GT Cup Greystone GT became race winners for the first time as Rich Mason and Jon Lancaster scored an extraordinary GT Cup victory on a chaotic weekend at Silverstone. It was an inspired strategy call that put the #22 McLaren 570S GT4 into prime position in the GTH category - the most hotly-contested class ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Oracle PSUs contain bug fixes and other critical security updates. Beginning with Oracle Database version 12.2.0.1, Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Release Updates (RU) in place of the PSU. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, see the Amazon RDS patch update documentation.  If the Auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, the DB instance is upgraded to the latest quarterly PSU or RU four to six weeks after it is made available by Amazon RDS for Oracle in your AWS region ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. When you are working on Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations, one of the Oracle packages that cause conversion issues is DBMS_JOB. Traditionally, we used extensions like : pg_agent, pg_cron or more recently pg_timetable for scheduling jobs. All of these tools or extensions use a cronjob like scheduling method which does not give a full compatibility of the features provided by Oracle DBMS_JOB. Translating calls to DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT() into a cron setting is more painful than being impossible when there is an execution interval lesser than a minute. There are several such DBMS_JOB compatibility issues including asynchronous scheduling which is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Art Danielov. By Art Danielov, CEO and CTO – FlashGrid Oracle Database is at the heart of many mission-critical enterprise applications. Moving such applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers multiple benefits, including agility, elasticity, and reliability. Teams responsible for moving Oracle Databases often have a legitimate concern, however—will they be able to achieve the same level of database performance they’re getting in their current on-premises environments? A poorly performing backend database makes the applications slow, no matter how much power or horizontal scaling the servers provide. Also, given the central role backed ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; On December 2, Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect revealed the Oracle MySQL Database Service with Analytics Engine known as HeatWave. During Oracle Live on August 10th, 9AM PST, 12 noon ET / 1 PM BRT / 6 PM CEST, Edward Screven will share our latest MySQL innovations, along with the latest benchmarks, that show the speed and cost savings gained with MySQL HeatWave. HeatWave, in-memory query accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service, allows customers to run very fast analytics queries directly against their MySQL databases entirely avoiding the step of data ETL ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; Please join our Oracle Live event, on August 10th, 9AM PST, 12 noon ET / 1 PM BRT / 6 PM CEST where Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect, will share our latest MySQL innovations, along with the latest benchmarks, that show the speed and cost savings gained with MySQL HeatWave.   Be sure to register here.  There has been a recent MySQL innovation in the MySQL/Oracle Cloud partnership that has been very popular among the MySQL community. This new integrated, high performance in-memory analytics engine provides: A single database for running OLTP and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle  supports the auto upgrade of Oracle time zone files. The Oracle time zone file auto upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the DST timezone file version in the database instance. Customers observing timezones with TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types in their databases previously had to provision a new database instance and migrate their data manually. These customers can now benefit from this feature by automating the upgrade of their current time zone file version to the latest available version in the database instance. To ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for the oracle_fdw extension, which allows your PostgreSQL database to connect and retrieve data stored in separate Oracle databases. Foreign Data Wrappers are libraries for PostgreSQL databases that can communicate with an external data source, abstracting the details of connecting to the data source and obtaining data from it. oracle_fdw is a PostgreSQL extension that provides a Foreign Data Wrapper for easy and efficient access to Oracle databases ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 5. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running OMS 13.5 can now manage databases by installing OMA 13.5. To enable the version 13.5 of Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for OEM 13cR5, navigate to "Option Groups" in the AWS Management Console and add the "OEM_AGENT" option to a new or existing ... Read More