Migration considerations
Oracle Autonomous Database has been designed to be fast, easy, and secure, with the objective of overcoming most of the management overheads usually associated with any database. We learned about these capabilities in Chapter 1, Introduction to Oracle's Autonomous Databases. Now, the question is, can your application database be hosted on an autonomous database so that you can take advantage of autonomous capabilities? Well, the answer is yes in most cases. However, there is also a word of caution. Autonomous Database, although it is an Oracle database, does have certain restrictions compared to a usual enterprise Oracle database, and it is worth reviewing the limitations once by clicking on the following link and reviewing the details to see what features are not supported:
These limitations exist for one or more...