Preface

This book provides information about using Oracle Sharding to create and maintain sharded databases. It also provides information about designing applications for a sharded database.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

This book is intended for database administrators and application developers who work with sharded databases.

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents

For more information, see the Oracle database documentation set. These books may be of particular interest:

• Oracle Database Global Data Services Concepts and Administration Guide

• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration

• Oracle Data Guard Broker

• Using the Oracle GoldenGate Microservices Architecture

• Oracle Database JDBC Developer’s Guide

• Oracle Universal Connection Pool Developer’s Guide

• Oracle Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows

• Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide

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.