Configure Access for MongoDB and Enable MongoDB 3-637

User Management for MongoDB 3-641

Create a Test Autonomous Database User for MongoDB 3-642
Connect MongoDB Applications to Autonomous Database 3-643
Send Email and Notifications on Autonomous Database 3-648
Send Email on Autonomous Database 3-649
Send Slack Notifications from Autonomous Database 3-658
Send Microsoft Teams Notifications from Autonomous Database 3-660
User Defined Notification Handler for Scheduler Jobs 3-664
About User Defined Notification Handler for Scheduler Jobs 3-665
Create a Job Notification Handler Procedure 3-665
Register the Job Handler Notification Procedure 3-666
Trigger the Job Handler Notification Procedure 3-667
De-Register the Job Handler Notification Procedure 3-670
Oracle Extensions for IDEs 3-670
Use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Toolkit for Eclipse 3-670
Use Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio 3-671
Use Oracle Developer Tools for VS Code 3-672
Use Oracle Java on Autonomous Database 3-672
Enable Oracle Java 3-673
Check Oracle Java Version 3-673
Load Java classes and JAR Files into Autonomous Database 3-674
Notes for Oracle Java on Autonomous Database 3-674
Test Workloads with Oracle Real Application Testing 3-675
About Oracle Real Application Testing 3-675
Capture-Replay Workloads between Autonomous Databases 3-676
Capture-Replay Workloads between non-Autonomous and Autonomous Databases 3-681
DBA_CAPTURE_REPLAY_STATUS View 3-683
Manage and Store Files in a Cloud Code Repository with Autonomous Database 3-684
About Cloud Code Repositories with Autonomous Database 3-685
Initialize a Cloud Code Repository 3-686
Create and Manage a Cloud Code Repository 3-687
Create and Manage Branches in a Cloud Code Repository 3-688
Export Schema Objects to the Cloud Code Repository Branch 3-690
Use File Operations with a Cloud Code Repository 3-691
Use SQL Install Operations with a Cloud Code Repository 3-692
Invoke User Defined Functions 3-693
About User Defined Functions 3-694
Steps to Invoke OCI Cloud Functions as SQL Functions 3-694
Steps to Invoke AWS Lambda as SQL Functions 3-700
Steps to Invoke Azure Function as SQL Functions 3-704

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Analyze 3-707
Build Reports and Dashboards Using Oracle Analytics 3-708
Create Dashboards, Reports, and Notebooks 3-708
Create Dashboards and Reports to Analyze and Visualize Your Data 3-709
Create Notebooks, Workspaces, and Projects with Oracle Machine Learning
Notebooks 3-710
About Oracle Spatial 3-712
About Oracle Spatial with Autonomous Database 3-712
Oracle Spatial Limitations with Autonomous Database 3-713
The Data Analysis Tool 3-713
Searching and obtaining information about Analytic Views 3-718
Creating Analytic Views 3-719
Working with Analyses 3-730
Viewing Analyses 3-730
Workflow to build Analyses 3-730
Creating Analyses 3-731
Creating Reports 3-731
Using Calculation Templates 3-742
Oracle Autonomous Database Add-in for Excel 3-749
Oracle Autonomous Database add-on for Google Sheets 3-775
The Catalog Page 3-803
Registering Cloud Links to access data 3-804
Gathering Statistics for Tables 3-805
Editing Tables 3-805
About the Catalog Page 3-814
Sorting and Filtering Entities 3-818
Searching for Entities 3-819
Viewing Entity Details 3-827
The Data Insights Page 3-830
About Insights 3-830
Generate Insights and View Reports 3-831
Manage the Service 3-832
Lifecycle Operations 3-833
Provision Autonomous Database 3-834
Start Autonomous Database 3-839
Stop Autonomous Database 3-839
Restart Autonomous Database 3-840
Rename Autonomous Database 3-840
Update the Display Name for an Autonomous Database Instance 3-843
Terminate an Autonomous Database Instance 3-844
Change Autonomous Database Operation Mode to Read/Write Read-Only or
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 Schedule Start and Stop Times for an Autonomous Database Instance 3-847
Concurrent Operations on Autonomous Database 3-849
Updating Compute and storage limits 3-850
Add CPU or Storage Resources or Enable Auto Scaling 3-850
Remove CPU or Storage Resources or Disable Auto Scaling 3-852
Use Auto Scaling 3-854
Update Billing Model, License Type, or Update Instance to a Paid Instance 3-859
View and Update Your License and Oracle Database Edition on Autonomous
Database (ECPU Compute Model) 3-859
View and Update Your License and Oracle Database Edition on Autonomous
Database (OCPU Compute Model) 3-862
Update to ECPU Billing Model on Autonomous Database 3-864
Update Always Free Instance to Paid with Autonomous Database 3-865
Upgrade Autonomous JSON Database to Autonomous Transaction Processing 3-866
Upgrade APEX Service to Autonomous Transaction Processing 3-867
Clone and Move an Autonomous Database 3-868
About Cloning on Autonomous Database 3-868
Prerequisites for Cloning 3-870
Clone an Autonomous Database Instance 3-870
Clone an Autonomous Database from a Backup 3-875
Cross Tenancy Cloning 3-882
Clone Autonomous Database to Change Workload Type 3-888
Notes for Cloning Autonomous Database 3-889
Move an Autonomous Database to a Different Compartment 3-891
Use Refreshable Clones with Autonomous Database 3-892
About Refreshable Clones on Autonomous Database 3-893
Create a Refreshable Clone for an Autonomous Database Instance 3-897
View Refreshable Clones for an Autonomous Database Instance 3-901
Refresh a Refreshable Clone on Autonomous Database 3-903
Disconnect a Refreshable Clone from the Source Database 3-904
Reconnect a Refreshable Clone to the Source Database 3-906
Create a Cross Tenancy Refreshable Clone 3-907
Use the API 3-909
Refreshable Clone Notes 3-909
Manage Autonomous Database Built-in Tools 3-910
About Autonomous Database Built-in Tools 3-911
View Autonomous Database Built-in Tools Status 3-913
Configure Autonomous Database Built-in Tools 3-914
Configure Autonomous Database Built-in Tools when you Provision or Clone an
Instance 3-919
Notes for Autonomous Database Built-in Tools 3-922
Use Autonomous Database Events 3-923

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 About Events Based Notification and Automation on Autonomous Database 3-924
Critical Events on Autonomous Database 3-924
Information Events on Autonomous Database 3-926
Get Notified of Autonomous Database Events 3-929
Manage Time Zone File Updates on Autonomous Database 3-930
About Time Zone File Update Options 3-930
Use AUTO_DST_UPGRADE Time Zone File Option 3-932
Use AUTO_DST_UPGRADE_EXCL_DATA Time Zone File Option 3-934
Monitor Autonomous Database Availability 3-935
Monitor Regional Availability of Autonomous Databases 3-937
Manage and View Notifications 3-937
About Work Requests 3-938
View Patch and Maintenance Window Information, Set the Patch Level 3-938
About Scheduled Maintenance and Patching 3-939
View Maintenance Event History 3-940
View Patch Details 3-941
Set the Patch Level 3-942
View Maintenance Status Notifications 3-943
View and Manage Customer Contacts for Operational Issues and Announcements 3-944
View Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Actions 3-945
DBA_OPERATOR_ACCESS View 3-946
Monitor and Manage Performance 3-946
Monitor the Performance of Autonomous Database 3-947
Use Database Actions to Monitor Activity and Utilization 3-947
Use Database Actions to Monitor Active Session History Analytics and SQL
Statements 3-956
Monitor Autonomous Database with Performance Hub 3-956
Manage Concurrency and Priorities on Autonomous Database 3-959
Database Service Names for Autonomous Data Warehouse 3-960
Database Service Names for Autonomous Transaction Processing and
Autonomous JSON Database 3-961
Idle Time Limits 3-962
Service Concurrency 3-962
Change MEDIUM Service Concurrency Limit (ECPU Compute Model) 3-967
Change MEDIUM Service Concurrency Limit (OCPU Compute Model) 3-970
Predefined Job Classes with Oracle Scheduler 3-975
Manage CPU/IO Shares on Autonomous Database 3-975
Manage Runaway SQL Statements on Autonomous Database 3-977
Use Fast Ingest on Autonomous Database 3-978
Monitor the Performance of Autonomous Database with Oracle Management Cloud 3-979
Monitor Performance with Autonomous Database Metrics 3-979
View Metrics for an Autonomous Database Instance 3-980

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 View Metrics for Autonomous Databases in a Compartment 3-982
Autonomous Database Metrics and Dimensions 3-983
Use Database Management Service to Monitor Databases 3-983
Perform SQL Tracing on Autonomous Database 3-984
Configure SQL Tracing on Autonomous Database 3-984
Enable SQL Tracing on Autonomous Database 3-986
Disable SQL Tracing on Autonomous Database 3-987
View Trace File Saved to Cloud Object Store on Autonomous Database 3-987
View Trace Data in SESSION_CLOUD_TRACE View on Autonomous Database 3-989
Service Console Replacement with Database Actions 3-989
Available Metrics: oci_autonomous_database 3-990
Use Sample Data Sets in Autonomous Database 3-999
Use the Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image 3-1000
About the Autonomous Database Free Container Image 3-1001
Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image License 3-1001
Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image Features 3-1002
Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image Recommendations and
Restrictions 3-1002
Container Registry Locations for Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image 3-1004
Start Autonomous Database Free Container Image 3-1004
Setup Wallet and Connect to Autonomous Database Free Container Image 3-1007
Migrate Data Between Autonomous Database Free Containers 3-1008

4 Tutorials
Load and Analyze Your Data with Autonomous Database 4-1
Self-service Tools for Everyone Using Oracle Autonomous Database 4-1
Manage and Monitor Autonomous Database 4-2
Integrate, Analyze and Act on All Data using Autonomous Database 4-2
Load the Autonomous Database with Data Studio 4-2

5 Features
Data Lake Capabilities 5-1
About SQL Analytics on Data Lakes 5-2
Use Data Studio to Load and Link Data 5-4
Query Data Lakehouse Using SQL 5-6
Advanced Analytics 5-8
Collaborate Using Common Metadata 5-9
Spark on Autonomous Database 5-10
Data Studio 5-10
High Availability 5-14

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Use Application Continuity on Autonomous Database 5-15
About Application Continuity on Autonomous Database 5-15
Configure Application Continuity on Autonomous Database 5-16
Client Configuration for Continuous Availability on Autonomous Database 5-22
Notes for Application Continuity on Autonomous Database 5-27
Use Standby Databases with Autonomous Data Guard for Disaster Recovery 5-28
About Standby Databases 5-29
Enable Autonomous Data Guard 5-40
Add a Cross-Region Standby Database 5-42
Perform a Switchover 5-45
Automatic Failover with a Standby Database 5-48
Perform a Manual Failover 5-49
Convert Cross Region Peer to Snapshot Standby 5-52
Update Standby to Use a Backup Copy Peer 5-58
Disable a Cross Region Standby Database 5-59
Events and Notifications for a Standby Database 5-63
Use the API 5-64
Autonomous Data Guard Notes 5-64
Autonomous Database Cross-Region Paired Regions 5-67
Backup and Restore Autonomous Database Instances 5-67
About Backup and Recovery on Autonomous Database 5-68
Edit Automatic Backup Retention Period on Autonomous Database 5-69
Create Long-Term Backups on Autonomous Database 5-72
View Backup Information and Backups on Autonomous Database 5-75
Restore and Recover your Autonomous Database 5-75
Backup and Restore Notes 5-78
Use OraMTS Feature 5-79
About OraMTS Recovery Service 5-80
Prerequisites to Enable OraMTS Recovery Service on Autonomous Database 5-80
Enable OraMTS Recovery Service on an Autonomous Database 5-81
Disable OraMTS Recovery Service on an Autonomous Database 5-82
Use Backup-Based Disaster Recovery 5-82
About Backup-Based Disaster Recovery 5-83
View Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Peer 5-85
Add a Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Peer 5-86
Update Disaster Recovery Type 5-88
Disable a Cross-Region (Remote) Peer 5-89
Perform a Switchover to a Backup Copy Peer 5-90
Perform a Failover 5-93
Convert Cross Region Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Peer to Snapshot
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 Use the API 5-96
Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Events 5-96
Track Table Changes with Flashback Time Travel 5-96
About Flashback Time Travel 5-97
Enable Flashback Time Travel for a Table 5-98
Disable Flashback Time Travel for a Table 5-98
Modify the Retention Time for Flashback Time Travel 5-99
Purge Historical Data for Flashback Time Travel 5-99
View Flashback Time Travel Information 5-100
Notes for Flashback Time Travel 5-100
Security 5-101
Security and Authentication in Oracle Autonomous Database 5-102
Configuration Management 5-103
Data Encryption 5-103
Data Access Control 5-104
Auditing 5-107
Assessing the Security of Your Database and its Data 5-108
Regulatory Compliance Certification 5-108
Security Testing Policies 5-109
Manage Encryption Keys on Autonomous Database 5-109
About Master Encryption Key Management on Autonomous Database 5-110
Prerequisites to Use Customer-Managed Encryption Keys on Autonomous
Database 5-113
Use Customer-Managed Encryption Keys with Vault Located in Local Tenancy 5-119
Use Customer-Managed Encryption Key Located in a Remote Tenancy 5-120
Switch to Oracle-Managed Encryption Keys on Autonomous Database 5-122
View History for Customer-Managed Encryption Keys on Autonomous Database 5-122
Notes for Using Customer-Managed Keys with Autonomous Database 5-123
Configure Network Access with Access Control Rules (ACLs) and Private Endpoints 5-126
Configure Network Access with Access Control Rules 5-126
Configure Network Access with Private Endpoints 5-133
Update Network Options to Allow TLS or Require Only Mutual TLS (mTLS)
Authentication on Autonomous Database 5-147
Audit Autonomous Database 5-151
About Auditing Autonomous Database 5-151
Register Oracle Data Safe on Autonomous Database 5-153
Extend Audit Record Retention with Oracle Data Safe on Autonomous Database 5-154
View and Manage Oracle Data Safe Audit Trails on Autonomous Database 5-155
View and Manage Audit Policies with Oracle Data Safe on Autonomous Database 5-155
Generate Audit Reports with Data Safe on Autonomous Database 5-155
Rotate Wallets for Autonomous Database 5-156
About Wallet Rotation 5-156

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 Rotate Wallets with Immediate Rotation 5-156
Rotate Wallets with Grace Period 5-158
Use Oracle Database Vault with Autonomous Database 5-160
Oracle Database Vault Users and Roles on Autonomous Database 5-160
Enable Oracle Database Vault on Autonomous Database 5-161
Disable Oracle Database Vault on Autonomous Database 5-162
Disable User Management with Oracle Database Vault on Autonomous Database 5-162
Enable User Management with Oracle Database Vault on Autonomous Database 5-163
IAM Policies for Autonomous Database 5-163
IAM Permissions and API Operations for Autonomous Database 5-164
Policy Details for Autonomous Database 5-167
Policies to Manage Autonomous Databases 5-169
Use Oracle Data Safe 5-170
About Data Safe 5-170
Register Data Safe 5-172
Use Data Safe Features 5-172
Break Glass Access for SaaS on Autonomous Database 5-173
About Break Glass Access on Autonomous Database 5-173
Enable Break Glass Access 5-175
Disable Break Glass Access 5-177
Notes for Break Glass Access 5-178
Performance Monitor and Management 5-178
Use Operations Insights on Autonomous Database 5-179
Manage Optimizer Statistics on Autonomous Database 5-179
Manage Optimizer Statistics with Data Warehouse Workloads 5-179
Manage Optimizer Statistics with Transaction Processing and JSON Database
Workloads 5-180
Manage Automatic Indexing on Autonomous Database 5-181
Manage Automatic Partitioning on Autonomous Database 5-182
About Automatic Partitioning 5-183
How Automatic Partitioning Works 5-183
Configure Automatic Partitioning 5-184
Use Automatic Partitioning 5-186
Generate Automatic Partitioning Reports 5-187
Example Automatic Partitioning Scenarios 5-188
Data Dictionary Views for Automatic Partitioning 5-193
Graph Analytics using Graph Studio 5-194
Use Oracle Graph Analytics 5-195
Build Applications Using Graph APIs 5-195
Use Oracle Machine Learning with Autonomous Database 5-196
OML Machine Learning 5-196

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Creating Analytic Views 5-198
Use Select AI to Generate SQL from Natural Language Prompts 5-209
Usage Guidelines 5-209
About SQL Generation 5-210
Use DBMS_CLOUD_AI to Configure AI Profiles 5-211
Configure DBMS_CLOUD_AI Package 5-211
Use OpenAI 5-213
Use Cohere 5-213
Use Azure OpenAI Service 5-214
Create and Set an AI Profile 5-214
Use AI Keyword to Enter Prompts 5-215
Terminology 5-235
JSON Document Stores 5-236
Cache Messages with Singleton Pipes and Using Pipes for Persistent Messaging 5-236
Cache Messages with Singleton Pipes 5-237
About Caching Messages with Singleton Pipes 5-237
Automatic Refresh of Cached Message with a Cache Function 5-240
Create an Explicit Singleton Pipe 5-241
Create an Explicit Singleton Pipe with a Cache Function 5-243
Use Persistent Messaging with Messages Stored in Cloud Object Store 5-244
About Persistent Messaging with DBMS_PIPE 5-245
Create an Explicit Persistent Pipe and Send a Message 5-247
Retrieve a Persistent Message on Same Database 5-249
Retrieve a Persistent Message by Creating a Pipe on a Different Database 5-250
Remove a Persistent Pipe 5-253
Query Text in Object Storage 5-253
About Using a Text Index to Query Text on Object Storage 5-254
Create a Text Index on Object Storage Files 5-254
Drop an Index on the Cloud Storage Files 5-255
Text Index Reference Table 5-256
Monitor Text Index Creation 5-257
Use Oracle Workspace Manager on Autonomous Database 5-257
About Using Oracle Workspace Manager on Autonomous Database 5-257
Enable Oracle Workspace Manager on Autonomous Database 5-258
Disable Oracle Workspace Manager on Autonomous Database 5-259
Use and Manage Elastic Resource Pools on Autonomous Database 5-259
About Elastic Resource Pools 5-260
About Elastic Resource Pool Billing 5-262
About Elastic Resource Pools with Autonomous Data Guard Enabled 5-264
About Elastic Resource Pool Leader and Member Operations 5-265
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 Join an Existing Resource Pool 5-268
Change the Resource Pool Shape 5-269
Create or Join a Resource Pool While Provisioning or Cloning an Instance 5-269
List Resource Pool Members 5-272
Remove Pool Members from a Resource Pool 5-272
As Pool Leader Remove Members from a Resource Pool 5-273
Notes for Leaving a Resource Pool 5-273
Terminate a Resource Pool 5-273
Resource Pool Notes 5-274
Migrate Oracle Databases to Autonomous Database 5-274
Migration Prerequisites 5-274
Recommended Migration Methods 5-275

6 Reference
Previous Feature Announcements 6-1
2022 What's New 6-2
What's New 2022 6-2
2021 What's New 6-12
December 2021 6-13
November 2021 6-14
October 2021 6-14
September 2021 6-15
August 2021 6-16
July 2021 6-16
June 2021 6-17
May 2021 6-18
April 2021 6-19
March 2021 6-20
February 2021 6-21
January 2021 6-21
2020 What's New 6-22
December 2020 6-22
November 2020 6-23
October 2020 6-23
September 2020 6-23
August 2020 6-24
July 2020 6-25
June 2020 6-25
May 2020 6-26
April 2020 6-26

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