March 2020 6-27

February 2020 6-28

January 2020 6-28
2019 What's New 6-29
December 2019 6-30
November 2019 6-30
October 2019 6-31
September 2019 6-31
August 2019 6-32
July 2019 6-32
June 2019 6-33
May 2019 6-33
April 2019 6-34
March 2019 6-35
February 2019 6-36
January 2019 6-36
2018 What's New 6-36
October 2018 6-37
September 2018 6-37
August 2018 6-37
July 2018 6-37
June 2018 6-38
May 2018 6-38
April 2018 6-38
Sample Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) Queries and Analytic Views 6-39
Star Schema Benchmark Queries 6-39
Star Schema Benchmark Analytic Views 6-42
Autonomous Database Supplied Package Reference 6-45
DBMS_CLOUD Package 6-46
DBMS_CLOUD Endpoint Management 6-46
DBMS_CLOUD Subprograms and REST APIs 6-47
DBMS_CLOUD URI Formats 6-126
DBMS_CLOUD Package Format Options 6-135
DBMS_CLOUD Package Format Options for EXPORT_DATA 6-144
DBMS_CLOUD Avro, ORC, and Parquet Support 6-149
DBMS_CLOUD Exceptions 6-160
DBMS_CLOUD_ADMIN Package 6-161
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_ADMIN Subprograms 6-161
DBMS_CLOUD_ADMIN Exceptions 6-202
DBMS_CLOUD_AI Package 6-202
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_AI Subprograms 6-202

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Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_FUNCTION Subprograms 6-214
DBMS_CLOUD_LINK Package 6-221
DBMS_CLOUD_LINK Overview 6-221
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_LINK Subprograms 6-222
DBMS_CLOUD_LINK_ADMIN Package 6-229
DBMS_CLOUD_LINK_ADMIN Overview 6-229
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_LINK_ADMIN Subprograms 6-229
DBMS_CLOUD_MACADM Package 6-233
CONFIGURE_DATABASE_VAULT Procedure 6-234
DISABLE_DATABASE_VAULT Procedure 6-234
DISABLE_USERMGMT_DATABASE_VAULT Procedure 6-235
ENABLE_DATABASE_VAULT Procedure 6-235
ENABLE_USERMGMT_DATABASE_VAULT Procedure 6-236
DBMS_CLOUD_NOTIFICATION Package 6-236
DBMS_CLOUD_NOTIFICATION Overview 6-236
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_NOTIFICATION Subprograms 6-237
DBMS_PIPE Package 6-243
DBMS_PIPE Overview for Singleton Pipes 6-243
Summary of DBMS_PIPE Subprograms for Singleton Pipes 6-244
DBMS_PIPE Overview for Persistent Messaging Pipes 6-252
Summary of DBMS_PIPE Subprograms for Persistent Messaging 6-253
DBMS_CLOUD_PIPELINE Package 6-262
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_PIPELINE Subprograms 6-263
DBMS_CLOUD_PIPELINE Attributes 6-268
DBMS_CLOUD_PIPELINE Views 6-271
DBMS_CLOUD_REPO Package 6-271
DBMS_CLOUD_REPO Overview 6-271
DBMS_CLOUD_REPO Data Structures 6-272
DBMS_CLOUD_REPO Subprogram Groups 6-273
Summary of DBMS_CLOUD_REPO Subprograms 6-275
DBMS_DCAT Package 6-295
Data Catalog Users and Roles 6-295
Required Credentials and IAM Policies 6-296
Summary of Connection Management Subprograms 6-299
Summary of Synchronization Subprograms 6-303
Summary of Data Catalog Views 6-310
DBMS_MAX_STRING_SIZE Package 6-325
CHECK_MAX_STRING_SIZE Function 6-325
MODIFY_MAX_STRING_SIZE Procedure 6-326
DBMS_AUTO_PARTITION Package 6-327

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VALIDATE_CANDIDATE_TABLE Function 6-330
RECOMMEND_PARTITION_METHOD Function 6-331
APPLY_RECOMMENDATION Procedure 6-333
REPORT_ACTIVITY Function 6-333
REPORT_LAST_ACTIVITY Function 6-334
CS_RESOURCE_MANAGER Package 6-335
LIST_CURRENT_RULES Function 6-335
LIST_DEFAULT_RULES Function 6-336
REVERT_TO_DEFAULT_VALUES Procedure 6-336
UPDATE_PLAN_DIRECTIVE Procedure 6-337
CS_SESSION Package 6-339
SWITCH_SERVICE Procedure 6-339
DBMS_SHARE Package 6-341
Summary of Share Producer Subprograms 6-341
Summary of Share Consumer Subprograms 6-381
Summary of Share Producer Views 6-403
Summary of Share Consumer Views 6-420
DBMS_SHARE Constants 6-424
Autonomous Database for Experienced Oracle Database Users 6-433
About Autonomous Database for Experienced Oracle Database Users 6-434
Data Warehouse Workload with Autonomous Database 6-434
Transaction Processing and JSON Database Workloads with Autonomous
Database 6-437
Autonomous Database Views 6-438
Track Table and Partition Scan Access with Autonomous Database Views 6-439
Track Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resources, Cost and Usage Reports with
Autonomous Database Views 6-440
Pipeline Views 6-450
DBMS_CLOUD_AI Views 6-454
DBMS_CLOUD_LINK Views 6-455
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging Interface Views 6-458
Stripe Views on Autonomous Database 6-465
DBMS_CLOUD_FUNCTION Views 6-479
Autonomous Database – Oracle Database Features 6-480
Always Free Autonomous Database – Oracle Database 21c 6-481
Always Free Autonomous Database Oracle Database 21c Features 6-482
Always Free Autonomous Database Oracle Database 21c Notes 6-486
Autonomous Database RMAN Recovery Catalog 6-486
Use Autonomous Database as an RMAN Recovery Catalog 6-486
Notes for Users Migrating from Other Oracle Databases 6-487
Initialization Parameters 6-488

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 SQL Commands 6-496
Data Types 6-500
PL/SQL Packages Notes for Autonomous Database 6-501
Oracle XML DB 6-506
Oracle Text 6-507
Oracle Flashback 6-507
Oracle Database Real Application Security 6-508
Oracle LogMiner 6-509
Choose a Character Set for Autonomous Database 6-509
Database Features Unavailable in Autonomous Database 6-511
Logical Partition Change Tracking and Materialized Views 6-512
About Logical Partition Change Tracking 6-512
Using Logical Partition Change Tracking 6-513
Example: Logical Partition Change Tracking 6-515
Migrating MySQL and Third-Party Databases to Autonomous Database 6-521
Migrating Amazon Redshift to Autonomous Database 6-522
Autonomous Database Redshift Migration Overview 6-522
Connect to Amazon Redshift 6-523
Connect to Autonomous Database 6-525
Start the Cloud Migration Wizard 6-526
Review and Finish the Amazon Redshift Migration 6-532
Use Generated Amazon Redshift Migration Scripts 6-534
Perform Post Migration Tasks 6-536
Migrating MySQL to Autonomous Database 6-536
Migrating Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase Adaptive Server to Autonomous Database 6-536
Migrating IBM DB2 (UDB) Database to Autonomous Database 6-537
Migrating Teradata Database to Autonomous Database 6-537
SODA Collection Metadata 6-537
SODA Collection Metadata on Autonomous Database 6-537
SODA Default Collection Metadata on Autonomous Database 6-537
SODA Customized Collection Metadata on Autonomous Database 6-539
Cloud Support and Identity Information 6-540
Obtain Tenancy Details 6-540
Database Name 6-542
Region 6-542
Tenancy OCID 6-542
Database OCID 6-542
Compartment OCID 6-542
Outbound IP Address 6-542
Availability Domain 6-543

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This document describes how to manage, monitor, and use Oracle Autonomous Database
and provides references to related documentation.
• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Audience
This document is intended for Oracle Cloud users who want to manage and monitor Oracle
Autonomous Database.

Documentation Accessibility
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Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

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Related Documents
Depending on the region and when you provisioned your database, and in some cases
depending on your provisioning choice, the Oracle Database version for your Autonomous
Database is either Oracle Database 19c or Oracle Database 21c.
If you have Oracle Database 19c, then many database concepts and features of this service
are further documented here:
Oracle Database 19c
If you are using Always Free Autonomous Database with Oracle Database 21c, then many
concepts and features of this service are further documented here:
Oracle Database 21c
For additional information, see these Oracle resources:
• Welcome to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

• Get Started Using Autonomous JSON Database
• GoldenGate Real-Time Data Replication in Cloud
• Using Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service
• Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud
• User’s Guide for Oracle Analytics Desktop

Conventions
The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention Meaning
boldface Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an
action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you
supply particular values.
monospace Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in
examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

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Overview

• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless

Here’s a summary of the noteworthy Oracle Autonomous Database additions and
enhancements.
• About Autonomous Database
Provides information about Autonomous Database features, workload types, and regions.
• Get Help, Search Forums, and Contact Support
When you use Oracle Autonomous Database, sometimes you need to get help from the
community or to talk to someone in Oracle support. This topic provides more information
about getting help by viewing and posting questions on forums and using Oracle Cloud
Support to create a support request.
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Describes the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Oracle Autonomous Database
Serverless.
• How Is Autonomous Database Billed?
Provides details for Autonomous Database billing.

What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless

Here’s a summary of the noteworthy Oracle Autonomous Database additions and
enhancements.
You can also visit the What's New Videos for announcements and details on new
Autonomous Database features.
See Previous Feature Announcements for 2022 announcements and older announcements.
• February 2024
• January 2024
• December 2023
• November 2023
• October 2023
• September 2023
• August 2023
• July 2023
• June 2023
• May 2023
• April 2023
• March 2023
• February 2023

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• January 2023

February 2024
Feature Description
Select AI with OCI Autonomous Database can interact with AI service providers.
Generative AI Select AI now supports OCI Generative AI, Azure OpenAI
Service, OpenAI, and CohereAI.
This feature supports having LLMs work with Oracle database by
generating SQL from natural language prompts. This allows you
to talk to your database.
See Use Select AI to Generate SQL from Natural Language
Prompts for more information.
UTL_HTTP allows With UTL_HTTP, when the Autonomous Database instance is on a
HTTP_PROXY Connections private endpoint you can call UTL_HTTP.set_proxy and both
HTTPS and HTTP_PROXY connections are allowed.
See Submit an HTTP Request to a Private Host with UTL_HTTP
for more information.

January 2024
Feature Description
ECPU Compute Model for Autonomous Database offers two compute models when you
all Workload Types create or clone an instance: ECPU and OCPU. Previously only
the workload types Data Warehouse and Transaction Processing
supported the ECPU compute model. Now all workload types
support the ECPU compute model, including JSON and APEX.
See Compute Models in Autonomous Database for more
information.
Manage Time Zone File Autonomous Database provides several options to automatically
Updates update time zone files.
See Manage Time Zone File Updates on Autonomous Database
for more information.
Custom Kerberos Service You can use a custom Kerberos service name when you configure
Name Support for Kerberos Kerberos to authenticate Autonomous Database users. Using a
Authentication custom service name you can use the same Keytab files on
multiple Autonomous Database instances when you enable
Kerberos authentication (you do not need to create and upload
different Keytab files for each Autonomous Database instance).
See Configure Kerberos Authentication with Autonomous
Database for more information.
Clone Database to Change You can create a clone of an Autonomous Database and select a
Workload Type different workload type for the cloned database.
See Clone Autonomous Database to Change Workload Type for
more information.

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December 2023
Feature Description
Cross Tenancy Cloning You can clone an Autonomous Database instance from one tenancy,
source tenancy, to a different tenancy (destination tenancy). The cross
tenancy cloning option is only available using the CLI or the
Autonomous Database REST APIs. This option is not available using
the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console.
See Cross Tenancy Cloning for more information.
Invoke Azure Remote You can invoke Azure remote functions in your Autonomous Database
Functions as SQL functions.
See Steps to Invoke Azure Function as SQL Functions for more
information.
Create Database Links to You can create database links from an Autonomous Database to a
Oracle RAC Database target Oracle RAC database and specify multiple hostnames.
See Create Database Links from Autonomous Database to an Oracle
Database on a Private Endpoint for more information.
New Cloud Links Views Obtain information on the Cloud Link specific privileges granted to all
users or to the current user.
See Monitor and View Cloud Links Information for more information.
Documentation Addition: Provides an example for loading data into an Autonomous Database
Load Data from AWS S3 instance from AWS S3.
See Load Data into Autonomous Database from AWS S3 for more
information.

November 2023
Feature Description
Oracle APEX 23.2 Autonomous Database uses Oracle APEX Release 23.2.
See Create Applications with Oracle APEX in Autonomous Database
for more information.
Select AI with Azure OpenAI Autonomous Database can interact with AI service providers. Select AI
Service now supports the Azure OpenAI Service, OpenAI, and CohereAI. One
way LLMs can work with Oracle database is by generating SQL from
natural language prompts that allow you to talk to your database.
See Use Select AI to Generate SQL from Natural Language Prompts
for more information.
Break Glass Access with Autonomous Database supports break glass access for SaaS
SAAS_ADMIN User providers. Break glass access allows a SaaS operations team, when
explicitly authorized by a SaaS customer, to access a customer's
database to perform critical or emergency operations.
See Break Glass Access for SaaS on Autonomous Database for more
information.
Database Links Without a You can create database links from one Autonomous Database
Wallet (TLS) instance to a publicly accessible Autonomous Database without a
wallet (TLS).
See Create Database Links from Autonomous Database to a Publicly
Accessible Autonomous Database without a Wallet (TLS) for more
information.

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October 2023
Feature Description
Vault Secret Credential You can use vault secret credentials to access cloud resources or
Objects to access other databases (use vault secret credentials anywhere
where username/password type credentials are required).
Supported vaults are:
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault
• Azure Key Vault
• AWS Secrets Manager
• GCP Secret Manager
See Use Vault Secret Credentials for more information.
Documentation Addition: Documentation includes summary and detailed Autonomous
Billing Information Database billing information.
See How Is Autonomous Database Billed? for more information.
Documentation Addition: Documentation includes information on migrating your Oracle
Oracle Database Migration Database to Autonomous Database.
Information See Migrate Oracle Databases to Autonomous Database for more
information.
ServiceNow Support for Autonomous Database support for Oracle-managed
Database Links with heterogeneous connectivity makes it easy to create database
Oracle-Managed links to ServiceNow. When you use database links with Oracle-
Heterogeneous managed heterogeneous connectivity, Autonomous Database
Connectivity configures and sets up the connection.
See Create Database Links to Non-Oracle Databases with
Oracle-Managed Heterogeneous Connectivity for more
information.
Invoke Oracle Cloud You can invoke Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions and AWS
Infrastructure Functions or Lambda remote functions in your Autonomous Database as SQL
AWS Lambda Remote functions.
Functions See Invoke User Defined Functions for more information.

September 2023
Feature Description
Use Select AI to Generate Autonomous Database can interact with AI service providers
SQL from Natural including: OpenAI and CohereAI to provide access to Generative
Language Prompts AI capability from Oracle Database that uses Large Language
Models (LLMs). One way LLMs can work with Oracle database is
by generating SQL from natural language prompts that allow you
to talk to your database.
See Use Select AI to Generate SQL from Natural Language
Prompts for more information.

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