Database Management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Management provides a unified console for monitoring, performance management, tuning, and administration of cloud and on-premises databases.
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Database fleet monitoring and management
View, monitor, and obtain insights for database fleets deployed anywhere. Quickly view status, alarms, and metrics for databases and obtain in-depth Exadata monitoring. Advanced tools, such as Performance Hub and SQL Tuning Advisor, allow optimization of your database’s performance with easy accessibility and rich visualizations within OCI.
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HeatWave MySQL monitoring
Oracle HeatWave MySQL monitoring with advanced capabilities in Database Management enables quick health analysis of the entire MySQL fleet. You can obtain deep insights into the performance and health of your HeatWave MySQL databases in a single-pane-of-glass overview. Get quick analysis of performance bottlenecks with system configuration details, database metrics, and drill-down capabilities.
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SQL Performance Watch
SQL Performance Watch proactively assesses the impact of changes on the performance of the database. SQL Performance Watch is designed to predict and prevent SQL execution performance issues caused by system changes whether the databases are deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
Why OCI Database Management?
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1,300+ metric collections every hour per database
More than a thousand metrics are collected every hour for a database resource, enabling thorough monitoring in Database Management.
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8,500+ managed database resources
Database Management is an administration solution trusted by customers to manage their critical database deployments in the cloud and on-premises.
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Database fleet automation
Administer an entire fleet of databases. Group databases by use or criticality and automate fleet operations utilizing jobs ran across multiple targets.
How Database Management works
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Management provides comprehensive database management for all flavors of Oracle Databases, significantly reducing the burden on DBAs by providing a full lifecycle solution encompassing monitoring, performance management, tuning, and database administration. By connecting to databases on-premises via the management agent or to cloud databases via private endpoints, Database Management allows users to monitor database performance through metric collections and enables users to perform administration tasks on the database. Metrics are obtained through scheduled collections and stored in OCI. The service utilizes these collections to consolidate and build advanced data visualizations and monitoring tools for easy resource administration in the cloud console. Administration tasks, monitoring, and performance tuning are achieved through API and SQL calls to the database from the service.
Database Management customer stories
Database Management use cases
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Full cloud adoption
Cloud adoption can be fully embraced with a monitoring solution requiring no infrastructure. Oracle delivers the best of Oracle Enterprise Manager as a cloud service. DBAs no longer need to maintain a monitoring system, freeing up time to focus their high-value skills on more strategic tasks.
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Manage databases from a single console
Use a cloud console to obtain the performance summary of a single database. A monitoring status timeline, database time, average active sessions, and top metrics quickly details the overall health of the database. Additional tools enable a streamlined approach to administration of storage, users, SQL tuning, and database users.
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Maximize resource utilization
Built-in tools, including SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Monitoring, Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), and more, allow optimal performance tuning in your database environment. All the tools are integrated in the service, so entire tuning workflows can be achieved with minimal effort to reduce resource utilization in your database. A more performant environment can be scaled down to reduce costs in the cloud.
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Mitigate performance issues
Reduce time to resolution for performance issues in your database environments with Database Management. Visualization of database activity in Performance Hub provides a quick display of top database resource consumers. Utilizing real-time monitoring with Top Activity Lite, you can quickly identify sources of performance degradation. With the tight integration of SQL Tuning Advisor and SQL profile management, you can resolve SQL-related problems and reduce overall impact to end users.
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Simplify administration tasks
Database Management provides simplified administration capabilities within the console. Storage administration enables a DBA to add and alter datafiles for a tablespace. User administration provides details into profile use, account status, and expiration dates for database users. Credential management includes named credentials and preferred credentials to securely monitor and provide ease of access to OCI resources for delegated users.
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Job automation
Create groups of Oracle Databases to monitor and manage together, simplifying oversight. Group databases by their purpose; for example, group by container databases and pluggable databases spanning compartments, then use bulk SQL scripts to automate lifecycle operations.
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Test the upgrade
Assess system changes during the upgrade to make adjustments to enhance SQL performance and overall database performance. Test the upgrade to maintain the business SLAs and proactively identify the regressions before upgrading the production database.
Database Management capabilities
Performance management
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Database fleet management
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Monitor and manage a fleet of databases from a single console.
- Top resources utilization for all of your databases is displayed in an easy-to-read visualization. Short-term trend analysis can be assessed on historic time intervals to quickly mitigate any bottlenecks for your database environments. Tree-map views provide quick analysis of top consumers within a group of databases or a compartment in OCI.
Exadata monitoring
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Exadata infrastructure monitoring provides in-depth performance and configuration metrics of Exadata systems at a fleet level.
- The overview provides a consolidated view of the Exadata fleet with performance metric overview, configuration details, and alarm counts. Further details for an individual Exadata system are provided, including database system components as well as Exadata Storage components. Database cluster nodes, databases, ASM, and Listeners each provide metrics associated with their performance. Storage Server grid details provide deeper insights into the health of your storage performance in the Exadata infrastructure. View I/O statistics, resource utilization, disk metrics, and more through charts and rich visualizations.
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HeatWave MySQL
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HeatWave MySQL monitoring provides an in-depth performance review of your entire MySQL database systems fleet in a single location.
- Top metrics are visualized in a fleet page to ease the management of several database systems, and alarms are consolidated for a comprehensive analysis at a glance. Furthermore, drill down into a single MySQL database system for more granular performance review. Monitoring status, performance metrics, and configuration variables are displayed within the console. Real-time performance monitoring with Performance Hub provides key insights into queries running against your database system.
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SQL Performance Watch
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SQL Performance Watch is a feature in Database Management that helps enable lower-cost change impact assessment.
- With it, DBAs can proactively address potential issues before they affect end users and maintain optimal performance. SQL Performance Watch safeguards the production system against SQL performance regressions due to various database changes, such as upgrades, migrations, patch sets, Init.ora configuration modifications, schema changes, routine maintenance tasks, statistics refresh, and more. SQL Performance Watch generates comprehensive workload report for the assessed change with granular view of changes impacting SQL execution plans and various statistics, such as elapsed time, CPU time, buffer gets, I/O, etc.
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Performance Hub
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Obtain a real-time visualization of database work over time with Performance Hub.
- Filters allow for further dissecting a database’s workload and displaying session-level database activity. Quickly find spikes, or anomalies, in database wait events and utilize a time-period selector to zero in on performance windows. Correlate the waits to specific SQL statements or session IDs to start performance tuning. The SQL Tuning Advisor can be evoked from within Performance Hub to assist in a quick resolution to problematic SQL statements.
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Performance administration tools
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Database Management offers built-in tools to maximize database performance.
- The SQL Tuning Advisor finds the optimum execution plan for a query to reduce overhead and time of the SQL statements. SQL plan management and SQL tuning sets allow for large-scale query tuning and performance consistency in the database over time. Optimizer Statistics Advisor ensures the Optimizer has the best information for SQL execution plans. Having all of the individual tools in a single location maximizes a DBA’s efforts by reducing the time necessary for performance management.
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Database overview
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The database resource overview, or homepage, summarizes key resource utilization over time along with configuration details.
- Time-period selectors allow narrowing the scope of review. The console provides a single location to perform administration tasks, tuning operations, and performance review, providing a powerful tool to manage your databases. In-depth monitoring tools, such as Performance Hub and AWR Explorer, can be launched from the page, and links to additional services provide insights into the overall health of your database.
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Dashboards
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Dashboards provide comprehensive views of key performance metrics for a database or database system.
- Quickly diagnose a performance bottleneck, perform root cause analysis, or view the overall health of your database resource utilizing dashboards built on the OCI dashboard framework. With no need to set up, out-of-the-box dashboards are available for single database resources and database system resources. Custom dashboards can be created from these existing dashboards or built completely from scratch to capture and focus on key metrics for a database and database system.
Administration tasks
Database groups
Create groups of Oracle Databases for monitoring and managing together, simplifying oversight.
- Group databases by their purpose; for example, group by container databases and pluggable databases spanning compartments, then use bulk SQL scripts to automate lifecycle operations or data collections.
Database jobs
Package SQL scripts in a template to run against a single database or in bulk across databases in a group.
- These can be used to automate scheduled database maintenance tasks or perform large-scale operations and collections.
Credential management
Named credentials and preferred credentials can be configured in the service.
- Named credentials are securely stored, allowing users to connect to the database resource by linking to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secrets. They can be used to set Preferred Credentials for resources to provide more granularity and control in user access to resources in OCI. Preferred Credentials can be configured to allow read-only access to features or elevated privileges can be configured for management capabilities.
Alarm configuration
Database alarm management allows admins to see which alarms are configured for a resource and to create new alarms for the resource.
- Recommended alarms are predefined with a specific metric and threshold, but they can be altered adjust their attributes.
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Demos
Watch instructional, how-to videos to explore the capabilities of Database Management.
- Utilize out-of-the-box dashboards (1:33)
- Create a custom dashboard (1:47)
- Customize your performance dashboard (3:06)
- Manage database alarm definitions (1:32)
- Edit and clone alarms (1:58)
- Create Oracle-recommended alarms (2:55)
- Enable HeatWave MySQL monitoring (3:56)
- Tune HeatWave MySQL database system (5:49)
- Enable monitoring for Oracle Database@Azure (2:02)