How to enable auto start/shutdown for Oracle Database 18c Express Edition on Linux

Oracle Database 18c Express Edition can be enabled for automatic startup and shutdown with the Linux operating system. This will not only allow you not to worry about starting and stopping the database but it will also ensure that the database is properly shutdown before the machine is powered off. Enabling auto startup/shutdown is done via two simple commands:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable oracle-xe-18c

These commands will have to be executed either via the root user or with root privileges:

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl daemon-reload
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl enable oracle-xe-18c
oracle-xe-18c.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig.
Executing /sbin/chkconfig oracle-xe-18c on

For more information about starting and stopping Oracle Database XE, have a look at the documentation.

How to install Oracle Database 18c XE on Linux

The new version of the free Oracle Database edition, Oracle Database 18c Express Edition, just got released for Linux 64-bit. Getting started is really simple on Oracle Linux, basically a three step process of downloading the RPM file, installing it and then configuring the database. On other Red Hat compatible Linux distributions you will also have to download the Oracle Database Preinstall RPM alongside the XE RPM file. Here is a quick guide on how to setup Oracle Database 18c XE.

tl;dr

Oracle Linux

Download the RPM file from Oracle Technology Network
Run “yum -y localinstall oracle-database*18c*“
Run “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe-18c configure“

Other Red Hat compatible Linux distribution

Download the RPM file from Oracle Technology Network
Download the Oracle Database Preinstall RPM via “curl -o oracle-database-preinstall-18c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/oracle-database-preinstall-18c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm“
Run “yum -y localinstall oracle-database*18c*“
Run “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe-18c configure“

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Oracle Database 18c Express Edition is Generally Available!

Oracle just released the new version of Oracle Database Express Edition (XE), a free edition of Oracle Database. This release means something special to me, as I have been closely involved in it and with the great team that brought us Oracle Database 18c XE.

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Creating an Oracle Database Vagrant box

Oracle recently launched a new GitHub repository for providing people with Oracle software inside Vagrant boxes. If you have ever setup an Oracle database inside a VirtualBox VM, whether it is as your sandbox environment, to explore Oracle database, or to use it as a full-on development environment, things have just gotten a lot easier for you. With Vagrant, you can now provision an Oracle database inside VirtualBox in a matter of a couple of simple steps.

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Creating an Oracle REST Data Services Docker image

Oracle has added Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) to the Docker build files family on GitHub, which means that you can now easily dockerize ORDS. If you don’t know yet what ORDS is, it’s a free technology from Oracle that allows you to REST-enable your Oracle databases. More specifically, with ORDS you can just fire off regular REST calls to modify or retrieve data from one or many Oracle databases without having to know how to write SQL; not that knowing SQL is a bad thing! 🙂 In modern application and microservices architectures REST has become more and more popular for exchanging information. ORDS enables you to easily exchange data from and to Oracle databases via REST without having to write lines and lines of code yourself. For more information on what ORDS is and what it can do, check out Jeff Smith’s blog post about ORDS.

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