Oracle Database 18c & 19c New Features

For IT Transformation

Oracle Platinum Partner NoCOUG

February 2019

Charles Kim, CEO

Oracle ACE Director
www.viscosityna.com @ViscosityNA
 @racdba

Charles Kim  
• Oracle ACE Director
• Founder and CEO of Viscosity
• Over 27 years of Oracle Expertise: Mission Critical Databases,
RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, Shareplex/GoldenGate
• Specialize in “Complex Data Replication & Integration” with Shareplex & GG
• President - IOUG Cloud Computing SIG
• Oracle Management Cloud Certified
• Blog Sites: http://DBAExpert.com/blog
• Oracle Exadata Certified Implementation Specialist, (2014, 2016)
• Oracle Certified RAC Expert

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 My Core Expertise:

Oracle Exadata Implementation Specialist, 2014, 2016

Oracle RAC Certified Expert
 http://viscosityna.com/resources/dba-resources/twelve-days-12-2/

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DbA 3.0

Cloud DBA

Now the Autonomous DBA

The Autonomous Database Cloud @OOW 2017

The Changing Role of the DBA: Q&A with Oracle's Penny Avril
http://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/The-Changing-Role-of-the-
DBA-QandA-with-Oracles-Penny-Avril-120343.aspx

DBA 2.0 Is Dead. Long Live DBA 3.0! By Jim Czuprynski

https://vimeo.com/204365694

Oracle, a Data Company ....

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Evolution of the DBA
Kind of DBA Timeline

CLI DBA Early 90’s DBAs

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent
GUI DBA Late 90’s and Dot Com who will survive but those who can best
Google DBA Dot Com and 2000’s manage [adapt to] change.”

iDBA Dot Com, IOUG iDBA Master Curriculum

RAC DBAs (MAA DBAs) 2000+ after 9.2 (but major spike with 10.2) + Data Guard

DMA 2010+ Database Machine Administrator

vDBA / vRAC DBA 2010+ Evolving role of a DBA in the virtual world

Cloud DBA 2011+ Database Consolidation with Private Database Cloud

Oracle Database 12c Launches June 2013
Public Cloud DBA 2015+ Oracle Public Cloud with Database Cloud Service, Database Backup Cloud
Service, Storage Cloud Service, IaaS Cloud Service
PDBAs 2017+ Multi-Tenant with Oracle Database 12c Release 2
GA – March 2017
Oracle 18c February 2018 in Oracle Cloud, July 2018 On-Premise
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Upgrade Plans

Upgrade On-Premise? Upgrade to the Cloud?

• How many are Terminal Release to Terminal

Release customers?

• How many are planning to upgrade in

– 6 months
– 12 months
– 24 months
– Already There?

• Interesting in doing Zero Downtime and Zero Risk

Upgrades?
• Still running legacy versions?

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Upgrade Plans

Upgrade to Oracle 19c? Upgrade to 18c?

• Factoids
• 19c is the Terminal Release of Oracle 12
• E-Business Suite Customers are told to
wait for Oracle 19c

• So When is Oracle 19c coming out?

12.2
• So what is the delimma?
18c
19c

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 Why You Should Consider
Upgrading to Oracle 12.2 or 18c


11.2 Premier Support Ended - ULA?
12.1.0.2 Premier Support End
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 Hybrid Cloud

Journey For The Next 5-7 Years

• Last year at OOW, Hurd said that the 


Hybrid Cloud will exist for the next 5-7 years
– Invest in a high throughput from On-Premise to
Cloud
– Consider moving data center to the same region
and proximity as the cloud vendor

• Move Disaster Recovery site to the cloud

• Ask us about our Edge Cloud (Cloud
Adjacency)

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Oracle Database 12cR2 introduced on the Cloud 9/18/2016

On-Premise Oracle
Database 12cR2
released just under
6 months later on
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Oracle Release Dates
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Aug 2007

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Sept 2009

Oracle Database 12c Release 1 June 2013

Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (Patchset) - 12.1.0.2 June 2014

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 March 2017

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 May 2017

First Bundled Patch
Oracle Database 12c Release 2 July 2017
RU (July 18)
Oracle 18c - “Cloud First” February 2018

Oracle 18c – Available on Exadata February 2018

Oracle 18c – Available on ODA March 2018

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– On-Premise July 2018
Upgrade to 12.2 from 11.2.0.4

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Oracle Database

Extended

Support

Fees 

Waived

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End of Patching

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/oracle-lifetime-support-policy-faq-069234.pdf

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Oracle Database 18.4
Jan 2019

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Download 18c Now

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Oracle XE 18c*
FREE TO USE

❑XE Summary In-memory column store

❑
❑ In-memory aggregation and attribute clustering
❑ One instance per server ❑ Oracle Partitioning
❑ 2 concurrent user threads (NO CHANGE) ❑ Advanced Analytics
❑ 2 GB RAM (compared to 1 GB in 11.2 XE) ❑ Column Level Encryption and Tabelspace encryption
❑ Database Vault, Virtual Private Database, Redaction,
❑ 12 GB user data (compared to 11 GB in Real application security, Fine-grained auditing,
11.2 XE) Advanced Security
❑ Java in the Database and all related features
❑ New Features over 11.2 XE ❑ Flashback Table and Database
❑ Multi-tenant (3 user PDBs) ❑ Online index rebuild, index-organized table
❑ Advanced compression organization
❑ Advanced index compression ❑ Table redefinition
❑ Prefix compression ❑ Client side Query Cache
❑ Bit-mapped index ❑ Query Results Cache
❑ Transportable table spaces ❑ PL/SQL Function Result Cache
❑ Summary management ❑ Oracle Spatial
❑ Sharded queses ❑ Graph and Semantic technologies
Planning For Upgrading to 18c 

Helpful MOS Notes
To Bottom

Oracle 18c - Complete checklist for Manual Upgrade for Multitenant Architecture
Oracle Databases from 12.1.x.x to 18.x.x.x (Doc ID 2422161.1)

Oracle DB 18c - Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Non-CDB Oracle

Database 18c (Doc ID 2418045.1)

Oracle 18c - Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 18c (18.x) using
DBUA (Doc ID 2418576.1)

• ORAchk - Health Checks for the Oracle Stack

– MOS 1268927.2

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Oracle Database 18c

Simplified Version Number Timelines With RUs and RURs

• 3 digit format
– Year.Update.Revision

• Year is the last 2 digits of year a release is delivered

– e.g. 18 will be used for the release date ships in late 2017 or early 2018

• Update tracks Release Update (RU)

• Revision tracks the associated RU Revision levels (0,1,2)

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Oracle Database 18c

18c
Sample Version Number Timelines With RUs and RURs Oracle
Database

Production April July October January April July

18.1.0 18.2.0 18.3.0 18.4.0 18.5.0 & 19.1.0 18.6.0 & 19.2.0 19.3.0

18.2.1 18.3.1 18.4.1 18.5.1? 19.2.1

18.2.2 18.3.2 18.4.2 18.5.2 ?

In 3 years, you may run either:

• 18.12 18.2.0
18.2.1
18.1.0 First Release
• 19.5 Production
First Release
Update
Update
• 20.1 Revision

with additional RU or RUR.

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Oracle Database 19c

19c
Sample Version Number Timelines With RUs and RURs Oracle
Database

January April July October 2019

19.1.0 & 18.5.0 19.2.0 & 18.6.0 19.3.0 & 18.7.0 19.4.0 & 18.8.0

18.4.1 18.5.1 19.2.1 19.2.2

18.3.2 18.4.2 18.5.2

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 Performance: Preserve Statistics
Gather accurate performance statistics from production
Accurate means: Starting at least 1 month before the upgrade
Use Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) Snapshots interval 30-60 minutes and
retention ~40 days
Extract AWR:
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/awrextr.sql

Performance snapshot comparison using AWR DIFF reports:


SQL>select * from table(

DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY.AWR_DIFF_REPORT_HTML(<DBID>, 1, 101, 121, <DBID>, 1, 201, 221));

MOS Note:1477599.1 Best Practices Around Data Collection For Performance Issues

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 Pre-Upgrade/Migrate Considerations

Always Consider Minimal or Zero Downtime Approach
• Set Guaranteed Restore Points accordingly

• Ensure AWR retention is long enough to capture historical data for comparison

• Backup your database statistics, in case an older SQL plan needs restoring

• Definitely consider RAT for real workload testing, instead of synthetic workloads tests

• If upgrading older version of RAC to new version in place, special consideration need to
be understood
– 9i RAC to 12c RAC
– Upgrade to 12c GI stack first, Flex ASM or not
– Legacy clients may not support new Net connections
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 Oracle Database 12c Release 2

Upgrade Paths

Minimum Effort Upgrades to Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Source Database Target Database
11.2.0.3 / 11.2.0.4 12.2.x
12.1.0.1 / 12.1.0.2 12.2.x

Intermediate upgrade paths

Source Database   Intermediate upgrade path   Target database
11.2.0.1 / 11.2.0.2 ! 11.2.0.4 ! 12.2.x
11.1.0.6 / 11.1.0.7 ! 11.2.0.4 ! 12.2.x
10.2.0.2/10.2.0.3/10.2.0.4/10.2.0.5 ! 11.2.0.4 / 12.1.0.2 ! 12.2.x
10.1.0.5 ! 11.2.0.4 / 12.1.0.2 ! 12.2.x
9.2.0.8 ! 11.2.0.3 / 11.2.0.4 ! 12.2.x

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For Super Old Versions

Intermediate upgrade paths

Source Database   Intermediate upgrade path   Target database
7.3.3 (lower) ! 7.3.4 --> 9.2.0.8 --> 11.2.0.3 or higher ! 12.2.x
8.0.5 ( or lower ) ! 8.0.6 --> 9.2.0.8 --> 11.2.0.3 or higher ! 12.2.x
8.1.7 ( or lower ) ! 8.1.7 --> 9.2.0.8 --> 11.2.0.3 or higher ! 12.2.x
9.0.1.3 ( or lower ) ! 9.0.1.3 --> 9.2.0.8 --> 11.2.0.3 or higher ! 12.2.x
9.2.0.7 ( or lower ) ! 9.2.0.7 --> 11.2.0.3 or higher ! 12.2.x
9.2.0.8 ! 11.2.0.3 / 11.2.0.4 ! 12.2.x

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Oracle Database 19c Extended Support

12.2.0.2

12.2.0.3

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Oracle 19c (LiveSQL Released) - Jan 16, 2019
• https://blogs.oracle.com/oracle-database/oracle-database-19c-now-
available-on-livesql

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Oracle 19c
• Long Term Support
• EBS will be certified in Oracle 19c
• Customers are being told to go to Oracle 19c
• Here’s the ISSUE
• If you are on 11.2.0.4, you are already too late
• 19c will not come out until Q1 in Oracle Cloud
• 19c will probably come out summer of 2019
• Need to wait for the 1st RU before even considering 19c
Factoid
• As of Q4 2018, about 80% customer databases are on 11.2 and 12.1
• Oracle does not charge for extended support on Oracle Cloud
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Easy Connect Enhancements
• Add support for multiple hosts and ports in the connection strings
• Designed for easier load-balancing client connections

• Easy Connect Adapter accepts list of name-value Paris

• &CONNECT_TIMEOUT=45
• &RETRY_COUNT=3
• &SDU=

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Automated Testing of Query Plans
• NO DBA INTERVENTION NEEDED
• Companies no longer need to perform full regression tests … Hmmm
• Oracle 19c will “automagically” check built-in execution plans
against existing plans
• Then replace current plan with the faster plan
• Or keep the existing plan
• Idea is queries will run just as fast or better

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Automatic Indexing
• NO DBA INTERVENTION NEEDED
• One of the biggest 19c feature
• Fully automated
• Oracle will identify candidate indexes
• Oracle will first create those indexes as unusable and invisible (metadata only)
• Verify: oracle will ask the optimizer to test if those candidate indexes
improve the SQL performance
• Validate & Implement: If the performance is better for all statements when
indexed is used, it will become visible

• Will have audit reports as part of database system reporting

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Data Guard DML Re-Direction
• RUN DML on ADG

• Re-Direct DML statement back to the primary database

• Data changes will happen on the primary database
• Changed blocks will ship to ADG
• ADG wil be in sync to maintain redundancy

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Additional 19c New Features
Duplicate a non-CDB createDuplicateDB command of DBCA in silent mode.
— Or an Oracle RAC database with dbca in Can be duplicated to a remote server with connectivity from the
silent mode source system (where DBCA is running) to the target remote
server.
Relocate a PDB to another CDB using DBCA RelocatePDB command of DBCA in silent mode
in silent mode

Starting with Oracle Database 19c, installation and configuration of Oracle Database Client
Simplified Image Based Oracle Database
software is an image-based installation.
Client Installation To install Oracle Database Client, create the new Oracle home, extract the image file into the
newly-created Oracle home, and run the setup wizard to register the Oracle Database product.

Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation wizard
Oracle Clusterware dry-run mode upgrade
(gridSetup.sh) 
to check your system’s upgrade readiness
The wizard performs all of the system readiness checks as an actual upgrade
Enables you to verify if your system is ready for upgrade before you start the upgrade

Does not perform the actual upgrade

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Additional 19c New Features
Hybrid Partitioned tables Enables partitions to reside in both Oracle Database segments and in external files and
sources. T
— Enhances functionality of partitioning for Big Data SQL where large portions of a table
can reside in external partitions.
— Move non-active partitions to external files, such as Oracle Data Pump files, for a
cheaper storage solution
— Move non-active partitions to Big Data

In previous releases, getting the secondary to the same point in time as the primary requires a manual procedure to flash back
Flashback physical standby when the standby databases. A new parameter is introduced which enables the standby database to be flashed back automatically
when Flashback Database is performed on the primary database.

primary database is flashed back

Restore points and GRP is stored in the control file and not propagated to the standby site
Propagate restore points to the standby
With Failover, the standby becomes the new primary and restore point information is LOST

Now, the restore points are preserved after a failover

ADG
MIRA + In-Memory
It its one or the other before

Now you can have best of both

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Additional 19c New Features
FSFO in “Test” Mode Configure it to Observe only creating a 'test mode' to see when a failover or other
interaction would have occurred during the normal production processing
- Can tune FSFO for finer granularity
- Can see IF FSFO would have actually occurred without production impact
- Improve failover validation
In previous releases, getting the secondary to the same point in time as the primary requires a manual procedure to flash back
Flashback physical standby when the standby databases. A new parameter is introduced which enables the standby database to be flashed back automatically
when Flashback Database is performed on the primary database.

primary database is flashed back

With 12.2, we can have multiple FSFO targets

Dynamically Change FSFO target
With 19c, we can change the targets without FSFO being disabled

PDBs are now supported as a target database

PDB Recovery Catalog
Can be used with Virtual Private Catalog (VPC)

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Additional 19c New Features
Clear Flashback logs periodically to increase Starting in 19c, the management of space in the fast recovery area is simplified

FRA size predictability Oracle Database monitors flashback logs in the fast recovery area and automatically deletes flashback logs that are beyond the
retention period. When the retention target is reduced, flashback logs that are beyond the retention period are deleted
immediately.

In previous releases, getting the secondary to the same point in time as the primary requires a
Flashback physical standby when the
manual procedure to flash back standby databases. A new parameter is introduced which
primary database is flashed back enables the standby database to be flashed back automatically when Flashback Database is
performed on the primary database.

New Parameters for Tuning Automatic DATA_GUARD_MAX_IO_TIME sets the maximum number of seconds that can elapse
before a process is considered hung while performing a regular I/O operation in an
Outage Resolution Oracle Data Guard environment. Regular I/O operations include read, write, and
status operations.

DATA_GUARD_MAX_LONGIO_TIME sets the maximum number of seconds that can

elapse before a process is considered hung while performing a long I/O operation in
an Oracle Data Guard environment. Long I/O operations include open and close
operations.

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Additional 19c New Features
RAT at PDB Level Starting in 19c, capture and replay is supported at PDB level

ASM Parity Protected Files Single Parity for redundancy

Intended for write-once files such as archive logs and backup sets

For Flex Disk Group

Not supported for datafiles

Requires 3 regular failure groups in a flex disk group

Fined Grained PDB Patching Patch individual PDBs in a Multitenant environment
Allows bug fixes to be patched only on specific PDBs rather than
across the entire CDB

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ZS Storage Appliance Racked System

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Racked System configurations are:

• fully tested
• preassembled storage systems
• include replication, cloning, and encryption licenses at no extra charge

Benefits
• dramatically shorten deployment and implementation time
• optimize performance and availability
• reduce risk and TCO
• Platinum Services are available used to back up Oracle Engineered Systems such
as Oracle Exadata
Why ZFS ZS7-2
The first ZFS Storage Appliance was released in January 2009

• Extreme Performance • Per Controller

•Up to 3.8 PB of all-flash capacity
• HCC (10x - 50x compression) HCC
•11.5 PB of disk capacity,
or a mixture of the two
• OISP2 + ADO with 12c+
Raw Performance gain of 48% from previous
release
• Infiniband – 40gigE 40gigE IB

32gigE • Unified storage: file, block, and

• 32gigE HBAs object protocols

• 10 & 40 gigE Ethernet • Two Xeon processors per controller

DRAM
2.5x increase in 10GbE with up to 24 cores per processor
• Hybrid Storage Flash
• Up to 1.5TB of memory per controller
HD 41


Mission Critical

Zero Downtime Upgrades and Migrations

Zero Risk With Reverse Replication





Oracle Database 18c 

New Features

Zero Impact Grid Infrastructure Patching Per-PDB Switchover

Sharded RAC
Logically partition data across instances in RAC
User Defined Sharding

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19c

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 18c
Oracle

Oracle Read-Only Oracle Home Database

Some Files that used to be in ORACLE_HOME are in ORACLE_BASE_HOME and

ORACLE_BASE_CONFIG
Biggest benefit is Patching and Update the Database without large downtimes.
One Read-Only Image can be to distribute to many Databases
To enable/help commands:
$roohctl -enable (next, run ./dbca from the bin directory)
$roohctl -help

Following are the possible commands:

-enable Enable Read-only Oracle Home
-disable Disable Read-only Oracle Home

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Oracle

Oracle Read-Only Oracle Home & RPM Install Database

The database tools and processes write under the ORACLE_BASE path instead of
under the Oracle home directory.
A read-only Oracle home separates the software from the database configuration
information and log files.
This separation enables you to easily share the software across different deployments.
A read-only Oracle home also simplifies version control and standardization.

Oracle 18c also includes an RPM-based Database Installation:

▪$rpm –ivh (performs preinstallation validations, extracts packaged software, reassigns
ownership, executes root operations for the installation...etc.)

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New Features

Database In-Memory Support for External Tables Rolling patches for OJVM
-Great for HDFS

Integration with Active Directory (No OID) Per PDB Key storage
Authorization to database through Active Password-less schema creation
Directory user/group mappings to database No default passwords
schema users and roles

In-Memory for external tables Private Temporary Tables

Build and load in single query (to go along with current Global Temporary Tables)
Virtual columns in-memory • CREATE PRIVATE TEMPORARY TABLE is the same as GTT but
only visible to the session that creates it
Automatic In-Memory Alter Table Merge Partition & SubPartition Online
- evicts the infrequently accessed IM columns out of
memory in the situation of memory insufficiency
- based on the Heat Map

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Additional Features

Official Docker Support for 18c (and RAC Snapshot Carousel

Support Coming)
Duplicate PDBs across CDBs
Not just Star Schema Support for Analytics Views Inline External Tables
(Now Snowflake & Flat/Denormalized)
 External Table Definition provided at runtime
No need to pre-create external tables that’s
only used once
Dynamic Data Masking - redact data before it is returned to the application
The Express Edition (XE) is free use for development or production (not recommended)

Nearly all functionality is Included

Limited to 12G of user storage (was 11G in 11g)
Limited to 2G of SGA

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Additional Features

Shadow Lost Write Protection Transportable Backups

-DB, TS or Datafile Backups from non-CDBs are usable after migration to CDB

- Backups on source DB are PREPLUGIN backups

RMAN duplicate PDB into existing CDB Backup to archive storage
- Enhances Oracle SBT Library to Archive Storage Cloud

Manual termination of run-away queries

Manually kill a statement without breaking the session:

ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SQL.

ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SQL ‘SID, SERIAL, @INST_ID, SQL_ID’;

New parallel statement queue timeout and dequeue actions

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Additional Features

Zero Downtime Database Upgrade New Default Location of Oracle Database Password File

* Gold Image Distribution among RHP Note that the new password file path is already in
Servers ORACLE_BASE, not ORACLE_HOME.

Concurrent SQL Execution with SQL Performance Designating a CDB Fleet Member
Analyzer (SPA) 1. Access the root of the CDB that you want to designate as a fleet
member:

ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER = CDB$ROOT;
• SPA can run in parallel (by default, it is serial)
2. Create the database link to cdb1: 

• Complete the SPA test faster. CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK lead_link CONNECT TO C##CF1 IDENTIFIED BY
password USING 'lead_pod';

3. Set the LEAD_CDB_URI property to the name of the database link: 


ALTER DATABASE SET LEAD_CDB_URI = 'dblink:LEAD_LINK';

PDBs may be managed using CDB “fleets” (group of CDBs)

- A CDB fleet is a collection of CDBs and hosted PDBs that you can manage as one logical CDB.
Set the Lead PDB in a CDB Fleet
ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER = CDB$ROOT;
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ALTER DATABASE SET LEAD_CDB = TRUE;
Multi-Instance Redo Apply Supports Use of Block Change Tracking Files 

for RMAN Backups
MIRA + BCT = ADG (Best of both worlds)

• RMAN block change tracking file can now be

enabled on an Oracle Active Data Guard standby
that is using multi-instance Redo Apply
• Fastest redo apply technology + incremental
backup technology on the same Oracle Active
Data Guard

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Oracle

Standby Nologging Database

Standby Nologging tells the database not to log operations that qualify to be done without
logging.
Standby Nologging tells the database to send the data blocks created by the
Nologging operation to each qualifying standby database in Data Guard configuration
This typically results in those standbys NOT having invalid blocks.
You can set standby no logging for load performance or data availability in the following
statements:
▪ALTER DATABASE
▪ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE
▪CREATE DATABASE
▪CREATE CONTROLFILE
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Oracle

Standby Nologging Database

Database nologging extended for better use with Oracle Active Data Guard environment
(without significantly increasing the amount of redo generated).
There are two new nologging modes:
Standby Nologging for Load Performance – Standbys receive non-logged data
changes (minimum impact on loading speed at). Non-logged blocks automatically resolved by
managed standby recovery.
Standby Nologging for Data Availability - Standbys have data when primary load commits
(at the cost of throttling the speed of loading data at the primary), which means the standbys
never have any non-logged blocks to worry about.
Nologging can be used when loading data into your production databases without
compromising the integrity of Data Guard standby databases, pick your level of
synchronization between primary & standby databases.
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Automatic Correction of Non-logged Blocks at a Data Guard Standby
Database

2 Modes

• Standby Nologging for Data Availability - commit of a loading operation is delayed until all
standby have applied data

SQL> ALTER DATABASE SET STANDBY NOLOGGING FOR DATA AVAILABILITY;

• Standby Nologging for Load Performance

SQL> ALTER DATABASE SET STANDBY NOLOGGING FOR LOAD PERFORMANCE;

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Oracle
PDB Switchover Clause Database

• Reverses the roles between a refreshable clone PDB and a primary PDB.
• The former Refreshable clone PDB becomes the primary PDB, which can
now be opened in read write mode.
• The formerly primary PDB now is the refreshable clone and can only be
opened in READ ONLY mode.
• This command must be executed from the primary PDB.
• The dblink must point to the root CDB where the refreshable clone PDB
resides.

alter pluggable database refresh mode auto every 2 minutes

from new_pdb@dblink switchover;

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Oracle

Oracle 18c – Inline External Tables Database

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Oracle

Multitenant Database

Oracle 12c Oracle Database 18c

• Container managed database

virtualization
• Manage Many as one (Great!) • Per-PDB Switchover
• Patching, Backup, Security, Online • Transportable
Cloning, Online Relocation Backups
• Snapshot Carousel !57

• Faster Upgrades
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