Oracle International Corporation

Venkat Malla

Jay Rossiter

Pari Bhaduri

Yuanjiang Ou

Muthu Olagappan

Lawrence J Ellison

Ramkumar Venkataraman

Jane Xin Chen

Thivakaram Prakash Sivakumar

David Stowell

John John E So

Niloy Banerjee

Dimitris Nakos

Lalitha Ganti

C Gregory Doherty

Srinivas Maturi

Kevin R Walsh

Pascal P Sero

Balasubramanyam Sthanikam

Dean Tan

Darryl Presley

Bala Kumaresan

Sivakumar Thivakaram

Harish Rawat

Joseph Therrattil Koonen

Gregory C Doherty

Techniques for automatically adding a database device to a network of database devices include sending a first request from the database device in response to detecting that the database device is connected to the network. In response, the database device receives data that identifies a database device-management server. The database device sends a second request to the database device-management server. The second request identifies the database device and requests that the device-management server register the database device in response to the second request. The new database device may be a database appliance having a database process and a special purpose operating system tailored to the database process. With these techniques, a new database device can be plugged into a network and automatically discovered, registered, and assigned management tasks without human intervention. This alleviates the load on human operators and makes adding database device to a network more reliable and simple.

Techniques for automatically discovering a database device on a network

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.

Database server with enhanced management and self-configuration features

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

Special purpose operating system for executing a database server

Database appliance comprising hardware and software bundle configured for specific database applications

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Venkat Malla