High-Level Steps for Receiving Shares for Versioned Data

Data shared with you through Delta Sharing is not automatically available and discoverable in your Autonomous Database. You need to perform several basic steps to subscribe and access the provided data shares.

The basic steps are described here. For step-by-step instructions, see How-To Instructions for Receiving Shares for Versioned Data

Here are the high-level steps you need to perform:

High-Level Step	Description
1. Download your share profile.	Profile files are JSON files containing a user's credentials to access a Delta Sharing Server. This enables you to authenticate yourself with the delta sharing server and to discover the data shares you are eligible to access. Download the profile using the URL included in the invitation email sent by the data share provider.
2. Subscribe to the data share provider.	Upload the JSON profile file and create a share provider subscription.
3. Register shares made available to you.	After successful authentication with the delta sharing server you can select individual or all available shares and register them as visible data objects.
4. Create external tables on top of your shares.	External tables derived from the selected shares are created. These tables allow SQL access to the underlying data.