Surfing the Oracle IP Ocean With Confidence（oracleip）

As a programmer or database administrator, the success of your company or mission-critical project depends largely on your ability to navigate the vast ocean of Oracle software products, versions, patches, and fixes that make up the Oracle IP. At times it seems like a never-ending journey, but with the latest tools and techniques, surfing the Oracle IP ocean doesn’t have to be a stressful experience.

Fortunately, Oracle offers a variety of solutions that make traversing the IP waters simpler and safer. The Oracle Database Licensing Index (through Oracle’s Software Delivery Cloud portal) is a helpful tool that can be used to quickly and easily compare your current database server environment with available Oracle database release certificates. This comparison quickly identifies which software features and updates are licensed and need additional licensing.

Oracle also provides regular database patching support and other database updates, such as monthly security and Oracle Exadata patching. These database patching solutions are provided free of charge and often include both database patches and updates to the database administrator. In addition to database patching, Oracle also provides database optimization tools, such as Oracle’s Database Performance Monitor. This database optimization tool offers near real-time database performance analysis, helping to quickly identify slow-running database operations as well as areas requiring further database tuning.

Finally, Oracle also provides specialized database services, such as the Oracle Database Upgrade Service. This end-to-end database update and patching solution provides access to Oracle specialists who can help to upgrade the database environment to a newer version or perform the monthly patching process quickly and securely.

By combining these helpful offerings, Oracle customers can confidently traverse the IP waters and stay current on their Oracle database updates, patches, and upgrades. With the right tools, knowledge, and processes in place, Oracle database administrators can confidently take their database to the next level of performance and reliability.

/* The Oracle Database Licensing Index */
SELECT feature, update, license
FROM Oracle_IP_Ocean
WHERE update IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY feature ASC;
/* Database Patching Support */
SELECT feature, update, patch_date
FROM Oracle_IP_Ocean
WHERE patch_date IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY feature ASC;

/* Oracle Database Upgrade Service */
SELECT feature, update, upgrade_date
FROM Oracle_IP_Ocean
WHERE upgrade_date IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY feature ASC;