Preface

Review the following topics to:

• Discover how you can use this document to learn about Oracle Sharding
• Get accessibility information for this document
• See a list of related documents that may help you design, develop, deploy, and manage your Oracle Sharding environment
• Learn about typographic conventions used in this document

Audience

This document was written with a wide variety of audienaces in mind. System and application architects can use it to evaluate Oracle Sharding suitability for their requirements. IT managers can scope out the work needed to implement Oracle Sharding for proof of concept and production deployments. Database administrators can find information to help them deploy and maintain a sharded database. Application developers can learn about any code changes for using Oracle Sharding. Finally, business analysts can use this document as a guide to figure out costing for an Oracle Sharding implementation.

Documentation Accessibility

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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.