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.

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Related Documents

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• Oracle Database Install and Upgrade
• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide
• Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration
• Oracle Data Guard Broker
• Oracle Database Global Data Services Concepts and Administration Guide
• 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, a value in a list of values, or terms defined in the text.
italic	Italic type indicates emphasis on a particular word or phrase, or book titles.
monospace	Monospace type indicates SQL statements, commands, and code in examples SQL statements, configuration parameter names, keywords, and commands in the text URLs, file names, folder or directory names, and paths Text that appears on the screen, and text that you enter, when shown in combination with computer output
monospace italic	Monospace italic type indicates placeholder variables for which you supply the values.