Autonomous Database for Experienced Oracle Database Users

This appendix provides information on using Autonomous Database for experienced Oracle Database users with Autonomous Database Serverless.

For equivalent information about using Oracle Database features and options with Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure, see Oracle Database Features in Dedicated Autonomous Database Deployments.

• About Autonomous Database for Experienced Oracle Database Users
  Autonomous Database configures and optimizes your database for you. You do not need to perform administration operations for configuring the database. SQL commands used for database administration such as CREATE TABLESPACE are not available. Similarly, other administrative interfaces and utilities such as RMAN are not available.
• Autonomous Database Views
  Autonomous Database provides several views that are not available in Oracle Database 19c. This topic lists the Autonomous Database specific views.
• Autonomous Database – Oracle Database Features
  Describes Oracle Database features available with Autonomous Database.
• Always Free Autonomous Database – Oracle Database 21c
  When you provision Always Free Autonomous Database you can select either Oracle Database 19c or Oracle Database 21c.
• Autonomous Database RMAN Recovery Catalog
  You can use Oracle Autonomous Database as a Recovery Manager (RMAN) recovery catalog. A recovery catalog is a database schema that RMAN uses to store metadata about one or more Oracle databases.
• Notes for Users Migrating from Other Oracle Databases
  Describes information that is useful when you are migrating from other Oracle Databases to Oracle Autonomous Database.
• Database Features Unavailable in Autonomous Database
  Lists the Oracle Database features that are not available in Autonomous Database. Additionally, database features designed for administration are not available.
• Logical Partition Change Tracking and Materialized Views
  Describes information about the Logical Partition Change Tracking (LPCT) metadata framework and Query Rewrite with Logical Partition Change Tracking in Autonomous Database.