From the course: Oracle Database 12c: Administration
Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Database instance - Oracle Database Tutorial
From the course: Oracle Database 12c: Administration
Database instance
- [Instructor] Behold, the magnificent Oracle database architecture, a multitude of individual components working in tandem to allow an Oracle database to be, well, a database, allowing you to read and write data from tables in a way that's safe, speedy, scalable, and secure. The Oracle database architecture can be divided into three major components. Let's start by taking a bird's eye's view of the Oracle architecture and list the three major components making up our Oracle database. Our first component is the Oracle instance. Our second component is the Oracle database storage. And our third component are the Oracle server processes, or SPs. Let's start by talking a little more about the Oracle instance, which is basically the Oracle program, or binary, loaded into the server RAM. It exists only in memory, and created by Oracle every time you start up your database. Created, you say? Yep, it's non-persistent and disappears each time the database re-starts. What does it do? Well, it…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.