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Starting from Oracle database 11g, iSqlplus (web based) and sqlplus GUI no longer ship with Oracle database software. [7] The command-line SQL Plus interface continues in use, mostly [ citation needed ] for non-interactive scripting or for administrative purposes.
The "Oracle Active Data Guard" option, an extra-cost facility, [5] extends Oracle Data Guard functionality in Oracle 11g configurations. It allows read-only access on the Physical standby node at the same time as applying archived transactions from the primary node.
Oracle Database is available by several service providers on-premises, on-cloud, or as a hybrid cloud installation. It may be run on third party servers as well as on Oracle hardware (Exadata on-premises, on Oracle Cloud or at Cloud at Customer). [5] Oracle Database uses SQL for database updating and retrieval. [6]
The Oracle Database Appliance supports more than database systems. Starting in release 2.5 (ODA V1) and 2.5.5 (ODA V2 X3-2), the Oracle Database Appliance can be deployed using Oracle VM, which allows an administrator to install the application tier along with the database. [7]
To manage many databases and application servers (according to Oracle Corporation, preferably in a grid solution), the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control can be used. . It can manage multiple instances of Oracle deployment platforms; the most recent edition also allows for management and monitoring of other platforms such as Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, NetApp filers, BEA Weblogic ...
There are three types of DBAs: Systems DBAs (also referred to as physical DBAs, operations DBAs or production Support DBAs): focus on the physical aspects of database administration such as DBMS installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, restores, refreshes, performance optimization, maintenance and disaster recovery.
Oracle Exadata (Exadata [1]) is a computing system optimized for running Oracle Databases. Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out x86-64 compute and storage servers, RoCE networking, RDMA-addressable memory acceleration, NVMe flash, and specialized software.
With the release of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2), Cluster Ready Services was renamed to Oracle Clusterware. When using Oracle 10g or higher, Oracle Clusterware is the only clusterware that you need for most platforms on which Oracle RAC operates (except for Tru cluster, in which case you need vendor clusterware).