Autonomous Database creation on Oracle Cloud

In this post I will describe the step by step creation of Oracle 19c Autonomous Transaction Processing Database in Oracle Cloud using OCI Console.

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The following steps will be covered in this article:

1. Creation of Autonomous Database.
2. Connecting to Autonomous Database.

Creation of Autonomous Database:

1. Open the navigation menu. Under Core Infrastructure, click on Autonomous Transaction Processing.

2. Click on Create Autonomous Database

3. In Create Autonomous Database section Enter the below details:
Display Name, Database Name

Choose workload type: Transaction Processing
Deployment type: Shared Infrastructure

Choose the Database version, OCPU Count and Storage(TB)
Auto scaling should be enabled

Provide the Administrator Credentials

Choose the Access type & license type
Finally Create Autonomous Database

You can see the Provisioning the ATP database has started

After few minutes the ATP database is up and running

Connecting to Autonomous Database

To connect to Autonomous database we need to download the client credentials wallet

1. From Autonomous database details page: Click on DB Connection

2. Select Download Wallet

3. Enter the credentials to protect wallet and Click on Download, once downloaded close the window.

Connect using SQL Developer

Open SQL Developer and create a new connection using Cloud Wallet

Once the connection is Success, click on Connect