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Oracle Autonomous Database in Enterprise Architecture

By : Sharma, Krishnakumar KM, Panda
Book Image

Oracle Autonomous Database in Enterprise Architecture

By: Sharma, Krishnakumar KM, Panda

Overview of this book

Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) is built on the world’s fastest Oracle Database Platform, Exadata, and is delivered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), customer data center (ExaCC), and Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud. This book is a fast-paced, hands-on introduction to the most important aspects of OCI Autonomous Databases. You'll get to grips with concepts needed for designing disaster recovery using standby database deployment for Autonomous Databases. As you progress, you'll understand how you can take advantage of automatic backup and restore. The concluding chapters will cover topics such as the security aspects of databases to help you learn about managing Autonomous Databases, along with exploring the features of Autonomous Database security such as Data Safe and customer-managed keys for Vaults. By the end of this Oracle book, you’ll be able to build and deploy an Autonomous Database in OCI, migrate databases to ADB, comfortably set up additional high-availability features such as Autonomous Data Guard, and understand end-to-end operations with ADBs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Understanding Autonomous Database in OCI
4
Part 2 – Migration and High Availability with Autonomous Database
9
Part 3 – Security and Compliance with Autonomous Database

Cloning

Database cloning is always interesting. We may need to clone a database for testing or recovery purposes. Autonomous databases also have the option to be cloned. The autonomous database clone can be created using the Create Clone option, as shown in Figure 6.23. Cloning is fully automated here.

Figure 6.24 – Create Autonomous Database Clone

The clone can be created in three ways, as we can see in Figure 6.24:

  • Full Clone: The cloned database will have all the data and metadata of the source database.
  • Refreshable Clone: This is a read-only clone of the source database.
  • Metadata Clone: This is a clone of the source database without data.

For Full Clone and Metadata Clone, we can choose to Clone from database instance or Clone from a backup.

Figure 6.25 – Clone source

For the Backup clone type option, we can choose a particular timestamp or a backup from the list, as shown in the screenshot....