Chapter 9: Working with Oracle Database
These days it is hard to find an application that does not use a database for persistence. It might be a relational database, graph database, NoSQL database, or even an SQLite database on your mobile phone. Tuxedo applications are no different. While many databases can be used with Tuxedo, its best friend is the Oracle Database. Tuxedo is optimized for working with the Oracle Database. Even the transaction log we learned about in Chapter 7, Distributed Transactions, can be stored inside the Oracle Database instead of a file.
You will need an Oracle Database for this chapter. You may use the one you have already or use a Docker image available from the Docker Hub at https://hub.docker.com/_/oracle-database-enterprise-edition. Getting access to the Oracle Database is your homework before reading the chapter, as also mentioned in the sections ahead.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Preparing the database
- Using...
