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Database VS Database Instance: Oracle DBA Course

An Oracle database consists of two major components: the database storage and the Oracle instance. The database is the organized collection of information stored in disk storage files, while the instance is a set of memory structures and processes that manage the database files and exists only in memory. An Oracle database is associated with at least one instance, and while an instance can exist without an associated database, a database requires an instance to function. Losing the instance is not as severe as losing the actual database files, similar to how a Word document is separate from the Word program itself.

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Database VS Database Instance: Oracle DBA Course

An Oracle database consists of two major components: the database storage and the Oracle instance. The database is the organized collection of information stored in disk storage files, while the instance is a set of memory structures and processes that manage the database files and exists only in memory. An Oracle database is associated with at least one instance, and while an instance can exist without an associated database, a database requires an instance to function. Losing the instance is not as severe as losing the actual database files, similar to how a Word document is separate from the Word program itself.

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Database VS Database Instance

Oracle DB consists of 2 major components


• The Database storage
• The Oracle Instance

Database: Organized collection of information.


It contains collection of database files stored in disk storage. (physical)

Types of Database files:

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Database VS Database Instance
What is Database Instance?
A database instance is a set of memory structures and processes that manage database files

Note: A database instance exists only in memory

SGA
PGA • The Oracle program, or binary,
loaded into the server RAM
• created by Oracle every time
Server Processes
Background Processes
you start up your database
• reading from memory is a lot faster
compared to reading from disk

 Every running Oracle database is associated with at least one Oracle database instance.
 Because an instance exists in memory and a database exists on disk,
an instance can exist without a database and a database can exist without an instance.
 Losing instance no issue, losing data files for example = losing the database
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Database VS Database Instance
Another simple way to understand DB and instance :)

Microsoft word and Microsoft document

Microsoft word
( imagine it the instance )

Microsoft document ( imagine it the DB)

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Oracle DB Server architecture

Configuration options

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Oracle RAC
Single-instance DB Multi Single-instance DBs
On same server • High availability
• Scalability
• High performance
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Thank You

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