Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the core concepts of the Oracle Cloud technology based on self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing properties, followed by an examination of the types of ADBs that can be provisioned in any deployment model. Besides this, you were also introduced to a selection of important terms related to the Oracle Cloud environment.
As databases and applications are continuously being migrated from the on-premises world to the cloud, we summarized the various database architectures in use. It is important to know and understand the individual existing architectures and be able to adapt the existing on-premises solutions to the architecture used in the cloud environment.
At this point, you know how to create cloud databases, what the individual types are, and how to connect to them using Oracle Wallet. The next chapter deals with data management, focusing on data loading, import, and export techniques.