March 2026

Guaranteed restore points

Time Travel with Restore Points in Oracle

Guaranteed Restore Points bring a welcome sense of certainty to Oracle environments, especially when you’re navigating high‑risk changes like patching, data migrations, or application rollouts. By preserving a precise, immutable point in time, they give DBAs the confidence to experiment, recover quickly, and protect business continuity without relying solely on full backups. When used thoughtfully—paired with solid monitoring and storage awareness—GRPs become a powerful safety net that transforms recovery from a stressful gamble into a predictable, controlled process.

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Using Annotations to clarify column metadata

CLARIFY COLUMN METADATA WITH ANNOTATIONS

THE NEW METADATA? Historically,(since about oracle 7) Developers and Database Administrators have had the ability to provide more information about a database column, unified audit policy, edition, indextype, materialized view, mining model, operator, or view using comments. In Oracle AI Database 26 AI, we can go even further an extend he capability of descriptive text

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