mardi 19 août 2025

How to Provision Autonomous Database Service in Oracle Database@Google Cloud

 


 How to Provision Autonomous Database Service in Oracle Database@Google Cloud

 

Introduction

Provisioning- and basic management functions for Oracle Autonomous Database instance is done from the Oracle Autonomous Database@Google Cloud. Additional management functions are available within the Oracle Cloud infrastructure portal via the link that Oracle Autonomous Database from Oracle Autonomous Database@Google Cloud Console.

We are going through the process of provisioning and Oracle Autonomous Database in Oracle Database@Google Cloud.

 

Acknowledgements:

-         Author: Donatien Mbadi Oum, Oracle Cloud Architect, Senior Database Administrator

-         Last update: Août 2025

 


 

Prerequisites:

-         Access to Google Cloud, OCI tenancy and Oracle Database@Google Cloud

-         A Google Cloud Project

-         A Google Virtual Private Network (VPC) and Subnet

Note: In this guide, we are going to allow connection to the database from anywhere,

Step1: Open your Google Cloud and click on Console to connect

 



Step2: Select your Google Project

 



 

Step3: From your Search page, Navigate to Oracle Database@Google Cloud:

 



Step4: Click on Explore service under Autonomous Database.

 



 

Step5: On Autonomous Database page, click on Create.



Step5: Provide the details

-         Instance details

o   Instance ID

o   Database name

o   Database display name

o   Region

Note: Parameters Instance ID, Database name and database display name can be different.



-         Workload configuration details:

You have option to select Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing, JSON or APEX

 



 

-         Database configuration



 

-         Backup retention



-         Administrator credentials

Provide your database administrator password



-         Networking

We choose to access to the database from anywhere



-         Click on Create



-         The database is now created



 Step6: Database connection

-         Click on your database display name and click on Connections



-         Download the Wallet



-         Set a password for the wallet and Download





Step7: Connect to your Database

-         To connect to the database, we are using SQL Developer.



-         Right click on Oracle connections and the click on New connection



-         Connection parameters:

Provide:

o   Connection Name

o   Username and password (Admin user)

o   Connection type (Cloud Wallet) and select your downloaded wallet zip file



- Test the Database connection



Click on Connect, create an database tables and insert data



jeudi 14 août 2025

How to Purchase Public Offer in Oracle Database@Google Cloud

 



How to Purchase Public Offer in Oracle Database@Google Cloud

 

Introduction

Since 2024, a new partnership between Oracle and Google is bringing together one of the most popular global database solution for a true multicloud strategy. With Oracle Database@Google Cloud, you can now combine Google Cloud technologies with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Oracle Database@Google Cloud provides several options for direct access to Oracle Database Services including Oracle Autonomous Database Services, Oracle Exadata Database Services, deployed in Google Clous Data centers.

OCI offers to customers two Google Cloud Marketplace options: Private and Public. The selection you make here sets your company’s business relationship with Oracle for Oracle Database@Google Cloud.

This article describes how to perform the purchase of public offer. The public offer is for customers testing the service or for customers that have short-term needs for an Oracle database in Google Cloud.

 

Acknowledgements:

-         Author: Donatien Mbadi Oum, Oracle Cloud Architect, Senior Database Administrator

-         Last update: Août 2025

 


 

Step1: Open your Google Cloud console:



Step2: Search for the product name, Oracle@Google Cloud:

 



 

Step3: If you are not subscribed to the product, you will see the option to subscribe or the options subscribe and Contact Sales depending to your offer. Click on Subscribe:



Step4: Select Plan. The pay-as-you-go is selected and you see the features and pricing usage fee. For purchase details, select billing account to be the primary account to be used for making payments.

Go to the terms, and click on the checkbox and the click on Subcribe.



You will see a pop appears that your order has been sent to Oracle:



Go to product page: You will see the status “Purchase pending provider approval”



Click on the link ”Purchase pending provider approval” and on “Manage Orders”



You can see the plan and status. It may take some time for Oracle to approve.

 



Step5: On this step, you will create a new OCI account, which is required with the pay-as-you-go purchase offer. Click on Create Account:

 



Step6 : Fill the details and click on “Create Cloud Account”



 

 



 

 

It may take some time to complete.



When it’s approved, the Product details page would look like this:



 

Back to the Oracle Database@Google Cloud Product Details page. The status of your order has become active.

 So this is how you complete the purchase of public offer in Google Cloud Console. Now you are ready to use Oracle Database@Google Cloud to provision the different OCI native databases from Google Cloud Console.




 


 

 

 

 

 

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