Tag: oracle
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19c – The mystery of Snapshot Carousel (Ch.2)

In the previous chapter we explained the reasons why the snapshot carousel feature still has significant limitations in Oracle 19c Release. While I particularly think the feature concept is certainly interesting, these limitations will probably prevent us from implementing such architecture. However, if we could know the SQL commands that snapshot carousel executes – since…
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19c PDB “Snapshot copy” series- Chapter 3 – dNFS

In previous chapter 2nd we tested how easy is to implement PDB snapshot copies with a very simple setup. We leveraged this fantastic storage-based technology which is ACFS and it’s copy-on-write clones. In the example we used in that previous post, we had both the refreshable PDBs and the snapshot copies in the same CDB,…
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19c PDB “Snapshot copy” series- Chapter 2 – ACFS

Today we will focus on a simple practical exercise where we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to create snapshot copies with a minimal infrastructure. We start from a 19c EE single instance database and ASM storage. This database consists of the CDB “CDBA” and the PDB “PDB1”, running on a virtual machine.…
