Oracle Data Platform Foundations Associate case studies
Oracle Data Platform Foundations Associate · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Oracle Data Platform Foundations Associate credential is listed by Oracle University under exam code 1Z0-1195. It is an entry-level certification aimed at people who are starting to work with Oracle's data platform and want a recognised marker of foundational knowledge, including those moving into data-related roles from adjacent areas. The Oracle Data Platform Foundations Associate case studies are 5 cases and about 3,546 words.
1Meridian Retail: Choosing an Autonomous Database Shape for a Spiky Warehouse
Meridian Retail runs a 12 TB Oracle 12c data warehouse on-premises. Four hundred BI reports and 90 nightly ETL jobs run against it, and a two-person DBA team spends most of its week on patching, index rebuilds and tablespace alerts.
682 words, about 3 min2Halcyon Pay: Picking a Store for High-Rate Fraud Events
Halcyon Pay processes card authorisations for 4,000 merchants. Its scoring service must return a decision in under 200 ms at p99, peaking at 2,500 events per second during the holiday quarter and averaging 700.
695 words, about 3 min3TerraLog: SQL and Spark Over 900 TB Without a Second Copy
TerraLog instruments 120,000 agricultural sensors. It lands raw telemetry as Parquet in OCI Object Storage: 900 TB today, growing 60 TB a month.
710 words, about 4 min4Courante SaaS: HeatWave or a Warehouse for Tenant Dashboards
Courante is a B2B SaaS vendor running a 3 TB MySQL 8.0 database on a single OCI MySQL DB System for 2,200 tenants. The OLTP path is healthy at 1,200 transactions per second, but the product team shipped a tenant-facing dashboard that runs GROUP BY and window-function queries over 18 months of order history.
714 words, about 4 min5Regional Health Insurer: Splitting a Mixed Estate Around One Inflexible Vendor
A regional health insurer runs 60 Oracle databases. One is a claims adjudication package from a vendor certified only on Oracle 19c; the support contract requires SYSDBA access, custom OS packages installed on the database host, and a set of initialisation parameters that must not change.
745 words, about 4 min