Use Application Continuity on Autonomous Database

Autonomous Database provides application continuity features for making connections to the database.

• About Application Continuity on Autonomous Database
  Application Continuity masks outages from end users and applications by recovering the in-flight work for impacted database sessions following outages. Application Continuity performs this recovery beneath the application so that the outage appears to the application as a slightly delayed execution.
• Configure Application Continuity on Autonomous Database
  To configure Application Continuity you must enable application continuity for the database service your application uses and configure the failover type and the drain timeout. In addition, you must set several connection string parameters that enable high availability.
• Client Configuration for Continuous Availability on Autonomous Database
  You do not need to restart applications for planned maintenance activities when you enable Application Continuity and you follow the coding best practices.
• Notes for Application Continuity on Autonomous Database
  There are restrictions for Application Continuity on Autonomous Database, as follows: