Oracle International Corporation

Thivakaram Prakash Sivakumar

Ramkumar Venkataraman

Muthu Olagappan

Jay Rossiter

Pari Bhaduri

Yuanjiang Ou

Jane Xin Chen

David Stowell

Venkat Malla

Niloy Banerjee

John John E So

Dimitris Nakos

Lalitha Ganti

Bala Kumaresan

Balasubramanyam Sthanikam

Lawrence J Ellison

C Gregory Doherty

Srinivas Maturi

Harish Rawat

Joseph Therrattil Koonen

A database system that incorporates numerous features that reduce the total cost of maintaining the database system is provided. The database system includes a database appliance that executes a database server on a platform that includes a special purpose operating system specifically tailored to the services required by the database server. The hardware may also be specially tailored to the services required by the database server. The database sever may be generated from another database server by modifying the code of the other database server optimize the code for execution on said database appliance. According to another aspect, the database appliance includes an operating system and a database server generated from another database server by modifying the code of the other database server optimize the code for execution on said database appliance.

Pre-defined hardware and software bundle ready for database applications

A database system that incorporates numerous features that reduce the total cost of maintaining the database system is provided. That database system includes a database appliance that executes a database server on a platform that includes a special purpose operating system specifically tailored to the services required by the database server. The database appliance configures itself by detecting the environment in which it resides and setting operational parameters based on the detected environment. The configuration metadata of all components of the system are stored in a centralized repository which itself may reside external to the system. Both the database server configuration and the operating system configuration are managed by a remotely located integrated management console, which interacts with and configures the system at the database system level, the operating system level and, optionally, at the hardware subsystem level. Backup management may also be performed remotely. The remote components, such as the integrated management console, the backup server, and the configuration repository, may communicate with the system through a wide area network, such as the Internet, or directly through a dial-up connection.

Techniques for managing a database system including one or more database servers

Techniques for managing configuration for a system of devices arranged in a network

Special purpose operating system for executing a database server

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Karnataka, India

Thivakaram Prakash Sivakumar