In modern data platforms, agility is a strategic imperative. Oracle Database 19c reinforces this mandate by introducing Hot Clone PDB, a feature that empowers DBAs to clone a pluggable database without shutting down the source PDB. This capability unlocks accelerated provisioning pipelines for development, testing, QA refreshes, and rapid environment replication—while keeping production workloads uninterrupted. […]
Efficient lifecycle management on Exadata demands quick access to the correct Database (DB) and Grid Infrastructure (GI) Gold Image Clone patches. These images are essential for deploying and updating Oracle Database environments using tools such as OEDACLI or OEDA. This guide outlines the most effective methods to locate and verify the latest Gold Image Clone […]
Transportable Tablespaces were first introduced in Oracle 8i to allow entire tablespaces to be copied between databases in the time it takes to copy the datafiles. In Oracle 8i, the major restriction was that both source and target databases had to use the same block size. With the introduction of multiple block sizes in Oracle […]
Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) is a powerful Oracle feature that allows you to move entire tablespaces (or sets of tablespaces) between databases by physically copying datafiles plus minimal metadata, instead of unloading and reloading all the data. Because you’re moving data files rather than rows, TTS operations can be vastly faster than conventional export/import. In this […]