If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud, obviously the first thing you will probably be installing is Oracle Application Express.

Unlike autonomous, you’ll be installing it manually, which is a quick and easy process, and either in that installation or when adding ORDS later, you’ll be wanting to set the passwords for the public access accounts (typically APEX_PUBLIC_USER and APEX_REST_PUBLIC_USER).

Here’s what that looks like in Oracle Database 19c

Just a quick tip that often catches me out. If you are like me, you have long since tired of clicking Next, Next, Next, … through the GUI when you want to quickly create a database. Many people work around this by storing a set of database creation scripts. However, you can do even better. The Database Creation Assistant (dbca) can also be used at the command line and in silent mode.

On Windows, this is the error I commonly get when using dbca at the command line

AskTOM moved to Application Express 19.1 without any major issues last weekend. That in itself is a nice endorsement for APEX, given that the AskTOM application dates back nearly 20 years to 2001, and predates even the existence of APEX.

The only fix that we had to make was that AskTOM uses the static CDN files that Joel Kallman blogged about to make it nice and snappy wherever in the world it is used. The reference to those files have a hard-coded version number so that needed to updated. For AskTOM, we have a plugin that uses some jQuery elements that went pear-shaped when referencing the old version 18 files, but after a quick fix to that reference all was well.

Hopefully you’ve followed my very simple and easy guide to downloading the 18c database software for Windows. But of course, software on its own is not much use – we need a database! So let’s get cracking and create one. Using the Start menu like I’ve done below, or using the Windows panels, locate the Database Configuration assistant and start it.

After a few seconds the initial screen will ask what you want to do.  Choose “Create Database”.

If you’re a Windows enterprise, or you want to run your 18c database on your Windows laptop/desktop for research and education, then there has been some good news this week.  The software is now available to you on the OTN network page.  Here’s a walk through of the software installation process

Head to the standard database downloads page

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

Accept the license agreement and choose the Windows version to download

Well, finally it’s here! 18c for on-premise installation so the world can all get stuck into the cool new features of the latest release on their own laptops   At least that is what I’ll be doing!

Naturally as soon as I heard the news, I downloaded the software and got ready to set aside the day for installation and creation of an 18c database. But I didn’t need that long – I didn’t need that long at all. Just a few clicks and a few commands and there it was – my 18c database up and running.

Check out how easy it is with my three videos.

Software Installation

One cool technique that the optimizer can employ is the BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS method to take advantage of B-tree indexes in a means that we would normally associate with a bitmap index. This can be particularly useful with multiple predicates on individually indexed columns because it lets us establish the rows of interest before having to visit the heap blocks.  Here’s an example of that in action, even when the indexes in question are Text indexes.

Enterprise Edition plan

This blogpost is a follow up of this blogpost, with the exception that the install method in this blogpost is way easier, it uses an Ansible playbook to do most of the installation.

1. Install git and ansible via EPEL:

# yum -y localinstall https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install ansible git

2. Clone my ‘prometheus_node_exp_grafana_install’ repository:

# git clone https://gitlab.com/FritsHoogland/prometheus_node_exp_grafana_install.git

3. Run the prometheus.yml playbook to install prometheus, node_exporter and grafana:

Introduction

This is another post in my series on silent installations using response files. In previous posts, I covered silent installations for the Grid Infrastructure, RDBMS, post installation configuration steps, and creating the listener and database using response files. In this post, I’ll cover installing Enterprise Manager using a response file.

Introduction

This is another post in my series on silent installations using response files. In previous posts, I covered silent installations for the Grid Infrastructure, RDBMS, post installation configuration steps, and creating the listener and database using response files. In this post, I’ll cover installing Enterprise Manager using a response file.