Get up to speed with Oracle's Autonomous Databases and implementation strategies for any workload or use case, including transactional, data warehousing, and non-relational databases

Key Features

• Explore ADB, its business benefits, and architectural considerations
• Migrate the existing workload to ADB, explore high availability, and use cloud native methods for monitoring and event notifications
• Leverage APEX, JSON, the REST API, and SQL Developer Web features for rapid development

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Explore migration methods available for Autonomous Databases, using both online and offline methods
• Create standby databases, RTO and RPO objectives, and Autonomous Data Guard operations
• Become well-versed with automatic and manual backups available in ADB
• Implement best practices relating to network, security, and IAM policies
• Manage database performance and log management in ADB
• Understand how to perform data masking and manage encryption keys in OCI's Autonomous Databases

Who this book is for

This book is for decision makers, enterprise cloud architects, solution consultants, cloud engineers, implementation partners, and technology students, as well as anyone who wants to learn about Oracle's Autonomous Databases delivered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Beginner-level knowledge of Linux and OCI and networking concepts and databases, along with hands-on experience in OCI environments is required before getting started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Oracle's Autonomous Database
2. Autonomous Database Deployment Options in OCI
3. Migration to Autonomous Databases
4. ADB Disaster Protection with Autonomous Data Guard
5. Backup and Restore with Autonomous database in OCI
6. Managing Autonomous Databases
7. Security Features with Autonomous Database

Review

"As a database developer for more than two decades and a data scientist for the last decade, I've seen databases evolve from simpler flat files to RDBMS to cloud resident databases. Oracle Autonomous Database has made a significant stride in the cloud database world. When I came across this book, I glanced through the table of contents and found that the topics were well-organized. This book covers every aspect of the Oracle Autonomous Database, as well as best practices and useful tips in the form of quick notes. This book is not a boring theoretical guide; it instead provides many hands-on examples to help readers practice and immerse themselves in the production environment. I recommend this book to anyone working on Oracle database or other databases and keep up with the advancements in database technologies. This book will help you learn the most recent technology to avoid becoming obsolete. Learn to grow!"

Ravi Raj Prasad Karn, Principal Product Developer, BMC Software

About the Author

Bal is a technology specialist with expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Databases, & Engineered system. He has experience across various industries like Telecom, Healthcare, Financial Services and Insurance. Bal is currently working as Cloud Practice Manager with Oracle and have played various roles like Product Manager, Technical Delivery Manager, lead DBA, Content Architect, Software Engineer, QA Engineer in his previous roles. He holds several IT certifications across Oracle cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and databases. In his recent role he has been helping customers with implementation of OCI -Infrastructure, Networking & Security along with Oracle database technologies like High Availability, Engineered Systems and Autonomous Databases.

K M Krishna Kumar is a database administrator with 14 years of experience with Oracle Database (8i to 12c). He started his career in 2004 as an Oracle database administrator and has been working with Oracle Corporation for the last eight plus years. He has expertise in Oracle Database installation, patching, upgrades, migration, backup and recovery and high availability. He is also proficient in Oracle public, private and Hybrid cloud environments. He has performed many real-time production database installations, upgrades, and migrations and has delivered sessions on database upgrades through various channels. He is certified in Oracle 12c administration and has been a speaker in Oracle Open World, AIOUG and Sangam

Rashmi has been a database enthusiast with a keen interest in oracle database technologies. He has spent over 16 years in different roles, as a developer, database administrator and consulting role. Besides databases, he has garnered an excellent experience around the data integration arena, conducting PoC demos to meet the extensive and complex data integration needs of customers. He has been successful in building customer solutions in designated platforms that adhere to the customer data security requirement complying to the country's GDPR requirements. His profiles reflect most of the certifications he has been able to complete in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure around different service offerings.