What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Oracle's Autonomous Databases, introduces the basics of the ADB model. It talks about the building blocks of ADB, its hardware details, and the best practices. This chapter also emphasizes the role of ADB in real-time environments. It also discusses a few real-time use cases to demonstrate how businesses can benefit from adopting ADB. Overall, it’s a very good chapter to kick off the autonomous journey.

Chapter 2, Autonomous Database Deployment Options in OCI, explains all the available options to provision ADB in OCI, including the free tier. It discusses in detail the dedicated and shared environments and their differences. Also, it provides an overview of important OCI attributes, such as IAM, networking, and security, related to ADB.

Chapter 3, Migration to Autonomous Database, helps simplify your journey of migrating to ADB in OCI. It discusses the most recommended methods to ease your migration to ADB. Different deployment options are available with ADB, but in this chapter, we focus on how you can entirely automate the migration of your Oracle databases, which may be on-premises or in a non-Oracle cloud, into ADB in shared infrastructure in the OCI public cloud. The steps remain almost the same for migration to ADB in a dedicated infrastructure or a dedicated region.

Chapter 4, ADB Disaster Protection with Autonomous Data Guard, details how you can ensure the extreme availability of ADB. In this chapter, you will understand how even disaster recovery can be fully automated and managed in an autonomous environment by just enabling Autonomous Data Guard. You will learn how to enable a local or remote standby and about the database peer states, the different operations, and the associated RPO/RTO during a failover operation.

Chapter 5, Backup and Restore with Autonomous Database in OCI, explains all the available database backup and restore options in ADB. This chapter illustrates how database backups are done manually in ADB. Also, it discusses the data replication within ADB through database links.

Chapter 6, Managing Autonomous Databases, discusses all the aspects of managing ADB. As most of the tasks are automated in ADB, this chapter gets more weightage. This chapter explains how we can effectively manage ADB through best practices and other given provisions. It also enlightens us about the tools available exclusively for ADB and its importance in database management. The topics explained in this chapter will be helpful to handle day-to-day database operations.

Chapter 7, Security Features in Autonomous Database, describes the important concepts related to database security. This chapter explains how ADB ensures security. It describes all the database security tools bundled with ADB and also clarifies the role of the user in ensuring database security.