Before deploying your application in a production environment, configure both your application server and ATG products to use a production-quality database management system such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. Your applications can then access application server resources and ATG components simultaneously. For a list of supported databases, refer to the Oracle Commerce Supported Environments document in the My Oracle Support knowledge base.

The Oracle Commerce Platform includes a number of tools for creating a database, adding and removing tables, configuring data sources and connection pools, and importing and exporting data. This chapter covers the following topics:

Note: The Configuration and Installation Manager (CIM) utility creates database schemas and data sources for you. It also imports any required data. See Configuration and Installation Manager (CIM).

Note: Changing the out-of-the-box database schemas is not recommended, although you can extend the schemas as necessary. If you do make any schema changes, you must migrate the changes manually when you upgrade to a new version of the Oracle Commerce Platform.