Oracle Cloud: DBCS Classic and Cloud at Customer

Explore cloud computing basics, database cloud fundamentals, and prerequisites, and get started with Oracle cloud services, including sign up for free.

Define cloud computing as on-demand delivery of compute power, storage, and apps via a cloud platform. Highlight benefits like cost efficiency, agility, and scalable capacity, with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Explore how cloud computing delivers IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS through Amazon Web Services, with examples of compute, storage, databases, analytics, and security tools.

Explore Oracle public cloud basics, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and how Oracle cloud infrastructure and platform services support on-prem and cloud at customer.

Learn how Oracle database cloud service delivers an on-premise experience in the cloud, with flexible deployment options, security, and centralized management using Oracle Enterprise Manager and snapshots for dev ops.

Learn how to sign up for a free Oracle Cloud account, apply $300 credit, and set up a database in the cloud with classic generation options and infrastructure choices.

Deploy an exadata express instance in Oracle Cloud, navigating identity domain credentials and trial setup to create a traditional account deployment with storage and in‑memory options, and enable client access.

Provision and manage an Exadata Express instance, enable client access, set the PDB admin password, create a new schema, and connect to the cloud PDB to explore users.

Explore database cloud service on OCI classic (generation one) with automated high availability and an integrated app express environment. Examine lifecycle management from creating deployments to scaling, backups, and snapshots.

Create a public/private key pair and upload the public key to the Oracle Cloud DBCS instance. Use the private key to log in securely from Windows.

Sign in to Oracle cloud, create a generation 1 database in classic infrastructure, choose region and edition, and configure backups and security.

Demonstrates creating a database in Oracle Compute Classic, navigating the cloud portal dashboard, configuring access via public IP and private key, applying patches, and using snapshots for backups.

Explore how to manage an Oracle cloud database deployment in OCI, including viewing deployments, starting, stopping, restarting, rebooting, and scaling instances, with insights into connections, backups, and charge implications.

Explore kickstart deployment and how to scale a DBCS instance. Learn to scale storage and mount points, extend backup storage, and manage offline maintenance during the scale operation.

Explore how to create and manage a storage snapshot of a database deployment to enable point-in-time clones and storage-efficient development copies.

Create a clone database from an existing snapshot in Oracle Cloud by linking to the source, noting this is not for recovery and that storage grows with each clone.

Learn how to manage network access for Oracle Cloud database cloud service, including configuring access rules, opening ports, and creating persistent IP reservations to control public internet connections.

Enable ssh tunneling to access the DBaaS monitor without opening ports, and set up IP reservations in the classic compute console for a persistent public IP.

Learn backup and restore for cloud databases, including on-demand backups, destination changes, and point-in-time restores, with automated backups at container and pdb levels and coverage of configuration and system files.

Configure Oracle Object Storage and database backups in Oracle Cloud, exploring prerequisites, application policies, storage containers, and backup destinations to object storage or local storage.

Learn how to configure backups using backup configuration APIs and the BKB_API, covering on-demand and scheduled backups of databases, archive logs, and operating system files.

Explore backup configuration apis for a system with no backups, identify backup locations and configuration files, validate cron tab entries, and discuss updating cloud backups, patching, and local config changes.

Identify your current cloud tooling version, compare it to the latest available using the list tools command, then update the tooling via rpm to enable the new backup API configuration.

Configure and enable backups for a database system, switch from none to local or cloud storage, and perform on-demand backups via the BKB API, with config file changes.

Explore customizing local backups and configuring backup to disk in Oracle Cloud: DBCS classic and Cloud at Customer, using configuration files, BKB API, and on-demand backups.

Learn how to perform an on-demand cloud database backup from the UI, apply purge policies, monitor backup status, locate backups, and perform recovery using local and cloud storage.

Demonstrates SCN-based recovery of a cloud database using backups, including creating a test table, truncating it, and restoring from backups to verify data recovery and cloud backup behavior.

Learn to perform pre-checks and apply patches on a cloud-based database in a classic instance, using UI and command line, with downtime considerations and logs.

Learn how to rollback an applied patch using the UI, review patching options and patch history, and explore CLI tools for behind-the-scenes troubleshooting if needed.