This video shows you how to quickly create an always free autonomous
database in the Oracle cloud.
Always free databases are suitable for small applications and learning about and
exploring Oracle cloud infrastructure and Oracle autonomous database. Free
databases let you build, test, and deploy on the cloud without consuming cloud
credits. You can create always free autonomous databases within Oracle cloud
infrastructure accounts that are either paying accounts or free tier accounts.
Note: free tier users can create and use free databases during their initial
trial period and after the trial has ended, up to the allowed limits for free
databases. Also, you can easily upgrade an always free autonomous database
paid service in a single click. This upgrade to paid path preserves your
stored data, and enables expanding your database
resources for higher performance and scalability. Get started by opening the
oracle.com homepage and clicking the button that says Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
Here, you can click Start for free to sign up for a new free tier account, or
if you already have an Oracle cloud infrastructure account, simply click on
Sign in to cloud. Once you have a valid account and have
used it to sign in to Oracle cloud, in the cloud console, click the corner menu
icon to open the service navigation panel. This video shows the steps to
create and use an always free Autonomous Transaction Processing database. The same
steps apply for always free Autonomous Data Warehouse databases. From the
navigation panel, select Autonomous Transaction Processing.
The page for Autonomous Database appears. Click Create Autonomous Database.
In the Create Autonomous Database dialog, select a compartment for the database
from the drop down list. Enter a name and display name for the database. Let's
choose the workload type Transaction Processing. You could
alternately choose Data Warehouse as the workload type.
Choose the deployment types Shared Infrastructure. This choice runs the
autonomous database on shared Exadata infrastructure provided by Oracle. Note
that Dedicated Infrastructure is not available for always free databases.
Select the checkbox to create an always free database. Note this selection locks
down the number of CPUs to one and storage capacity to 20 gigabytes. Note
also the auto scaling option is locked to the off position.
This means CPU and storage resources available to your free database will
have a fixed limit. Oracle periodically provides previews of
upcoming autonomous database version upgrades. Previews are not available with
always free databases. Specify an administrator password for the admin
user of the database. For license type, always free databases require the
License Included choice. This enables production and non production usage of
the database at no cost for an unlimited time. Lastly, click Create Autonomous
Database.
The Create Autonomous Database dialog closes, bringing you to the new databases
details page. Note the new database is clearly labeled as always free, to
distinguish it from paid databases. The Lifecycle State field indicates the
database is in provisioning status. When provisioning is finished, this field
changes to available. Provisioning typically takes less than five minutes.
From the details page, click the Tools tab to directly access frequently used
database tools. SQL Developer Web is an integrated web-based environment for
developing SQL statements and PL/SQL scripts. It also provides basic
administration for your database. Oracle ASpplication Express, or APEX, is a low
code framework for rapidly building modern, data-driven web applications for
mobile and desktop users right from your browser; no additional tools required. And
ML User Administration enables setting up your Oracle Mmachine Learning users
for data analytics, discovery, and visualizations.
This has been a quick tour of always free autonomous database. There is much
more to see and do with your database. We invite you to learn more by going to
oracle.com/cloud/free