The standard for database objects such as tables, columns, and indexes, for products using the Oracle Utilities Application Framework helps in smooth integration and upgrade processes by ensuring clean database design, promoting communications, and reducing errors.

Just as Oracle Utilities Application Framework goes through innovation in every release of the software, it is also inevitable that the product will take advantage of various database vendors’ new features in each release. The recommendations in the database installation section include only the ones that have been proved by vigorous QA processes, field tests and benchmarks.

This chapter describes the following: