Oracle Database Appliance has been supporting Oracle Standard Edition database since about 2016. In this presentation I quickly run down the latest in the ODA world as well as advantages of using ODA. I will also discuss differences between Oracle Database Disaster Recovery and Oracle Database Backups.

2. Credentials:
§ 20 + years IT experience
§ San Francisco Bay Area 10 years
§ Auckland, New Zealand 10 years
§ Oracle, MS SQL, IBM Certified DBA
§ Logical and Physical Replication
§ Dbvisit Software since 2013
§ Oversee Dbvisit Services
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3. • New Zealand-based, US office, Asia sales office, EU office (Prague)
• Low cost solutions; flexible licensing
• Full lifecycle DR application for Oracle Standard Edition
• ”Oracle-aware” replication vs “block level copy”
• Cloud Ready (AWS, Azure, Oracle etc.)
• Keeps standby (DR) database ready to go 24/7

4. § Dbman = calm under pressure; responds to crises; remains
calm under pressure; typical of most DBAs today
§ Visit him at our kiosk; take a photo #DBAhero; share your
qualities as a DBA
§ Take a Dbman sticker

5. Oracle Database
Appliance (ODA)
01
Oracle Standard Edition
Database (Disaster
Recovery) on ODA
02

6. ORACLE
DATABASE
APPLIANCE
Oracle® Database Appliance is a
completely integrated package of
software, compute, networking, and
storage for your Oracle Databases
and applications.

7. 2016 Oracle announced ODA x6-2
Lower price point
Oracle Database Standard Edition

8. ODA
x7-2S
ODA
x7-2M
ODA
x7-2-HA

10. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadata-pricelist-070598.pdf

11. ORACLE®
STANDARD
EDITION
§ High Availability - Oracle RAC is available
§ Disaster Recovery – Standby Database is
possible
§ Performance and Tuning – 3rd Party products
§ The Price Tag – It is affordable
§ Features made available in SE2
§ Full DB Caching
§ Flashback Data Archive
https://www.oracle.com/assets/technology-price-list-070617.pdf

12. Protects against
logical corruption
Can take significant
time
Need an environment
to restore into
Can Rarely match
RTO or RPO
RTO – Recovery Time Objective
RPO – Recovery Point Objective

13. Continuously Updated
No restores required
Offload Reporting and/or
Backups
Uses an existing
environment (local or
cloud or both)
Can achieve RTO or RPO
RTO – Recovery Time Objective
RPO – Recovery Point Objective

14. Disaster Recovery + Dbvisit Standby + ODA
Dbvisit Standby
• Oracle Standard (or Enterprise) Standby Database
• Offload Backups
• Open Read-Only
• Create Cascading Standby Databases