Summary
Throughout this chapter, we covered a very key topic of Autonomous Database – that is, migration to Autonomous Database if we need to leverage the rich features available within the service. We discussed some of the regular considerations when migrating a database in general, and what precautions or considerations need to be made for a successful migration. Briefly, we talked about the different migration approaches that are possible while migrating to Autonomous Database and focused on one of the recommended automated processes for migration, zdm. We split the migration into multiple parts; first, we discussed the prerequisites, followed by a detailed discussion of each of the different steps involved in this utility, and finally, we simplified the entire process by clubbing them together as one invocation, using a response file that runs the steps in sequence. A concluding part of the step was to perform a sanity check. This method allowed us to initiate multiple migrations...