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Oracle Database Home for Exadata Database service

Oracle Database Home for Exadata Database service.

 

Oracle Database Home

  • A Database Home is a directory location on the Exadata database compute servers that contains the Oracle Database software binary files.
  • You can add and delete an Oracle Database Home from an existing VM cluster by using:

                 1)Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console

2)REST API

3)Command Line Interface (CLI)

  • You can also add and remove Database Homes, and conduct other management tasks on a Database Home by using the dbaascli utility.
  • When creating a Database Home you can use an Oracle published image or a custom image
  • You cannot delete a Database Home that contains databases.

 

Questions:

Which two statements are false about an Oracle Database Home on the Exadata Database Service?

 

  • You can create additional Database Homes at any time by using the OCI Console or the OCI API.
  • The Oracle UI uses the latest published Oracle Database image as the default in the UI.
  • To create a database home with a custom database image, you must first create the database home using the published imaged and then add the desired patches and updates. 
  • You will need to create a new database home for each database on the VM Cluster. 

 

What statement is true about an Oracle Database Home on the Exadata Database Service?

  • Deleting an Oracle Database Home from an existing VM cluster will automatically delete any databases that are in that database home.
  • You can add and delete an Oracle Database Home from an existing VM cluster.
  • The Exadata Database Service supports multiple VM clusters but only supports one Oracle Database Home per VM Cluster.
  • The Database Home for the Exadata Database Service VM Cluster can only be created from the published images.