1 Welcome to Oracle Data Sharing

This Quick Start Guide familiarizes you with Data Share technology background, some of its benefits, and includes step-by-step How To's on using Oracle Autonomous Database as a data share provider and a data share recipient.

• What is Data Sharing?

  Data Sharing allows customers to improve their business and open up new opportunities. Examples are provided.

• Traditional ways to share data

  Sharing data is nothing new. Some examples of how users used to share data are given.

• The modern way of sharing data

  Modern data sharing must be open, secure, real-time, vendor-agnostic, and avoid the pitfalls of extracting and duplicating data for individual consumers of data in a collaborative environment.

• Modern data sharing - how it works

  The high level sequence of events is explained, for users consuming data made available through the delta sharing protocol.

• How to Access and Enable the Data Share Tool

  The Data Share tool is used to provide data shares and to consume data shares. This tool is included in the Oracle Autonomous Database Data Studio.