To start using Oracle Database Cloud Service, follow the guidelines as below:
- Sign up for a free credit promotion or purchase a subscription
Fill in your information, and sign up for a free credit promotion or purchase a subscription to Oracle Database Cloud Service.
- Add and manage users and roles
Create user accounts and assign them appropriate privileges and assign the necessary Database Cloud Service roles.
- Create a database deployment
Use create service wizard (GUI interface) to create a new database deployment.
- Enable network access
Allow access to network services associated with your database deployments.
- Load data into the database
Use Oracle Database tools to load data into your databases.
- Monitor database deployments
Checkout health and performance of individual database deployments.
- Monitor the service
Check on the day-to-day operation of your service, monitor performance, and review important notifications.
- Patch a database deployment
Apply or Rollback a patch
- Back up a database deployment
Perform database backup and restore
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Conclusion
In this article we have seen Typical Workflow of an Oracle Database Cloud Service. It is very easy to start a subscription, create a database deployment and perform several other tasks listed in the Workflow.
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