Preface -- Chaos at Data Centers -- Team Effort -- Common solutions used in data centers -- Summary -- Enter Oracle Cloud Control -- The Grid - where the cloud came from -- Overview of version 12c -- Striking new features in 12c -- Bonus sections -- Ease the Chaos with Performance Management -- Laying the foundation -- Top Activity -- Testing infrastructure changes -- SQL Monitoring -- Doctor in the database -- Real-Time ADDM -- Compare Period ADDM -- Active Session History (ASH) analytics -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Configuration Management and Security Compliance -- Lifecycle management -- Auto discovery -- Inventory -- Detailed configuration -- Search Capability -- History and compares -- Topology -- Custom configurations -- Client configurations -- Compliance -- Compliance library -- Configuration and compliance reporting -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning -- Lifecycle management -- First steps: Software Library -- Provisioning library -- Provisioning profiles -- Deployment procedures -- Customization -- Lock down -- Configuration details -- Compliance standards -- Granting permissions to the Provisioning Operator -- Running EM as the Provisioning Operator -- Running the Procedure -- Other possibilities -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching -- Recommended patches -- Patch plan -- Out-of-place patching -- Pre-patching analysis -- Deployment -- Plan template -- Patching roles -- Refreshes -- Other patching procedures -- Reporting -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Change Management -- Change management -- Schema comparison -- Schema Change Plan -- Schema synchronization -- Synchronization Rules and Mode -- Synchronization results -- Executing the Synchronization -- Synchronization without a change plan -- Data comparison -- Continuous comparison -- Use cases -- Summary.

Ease the Chaos with Test Data Management -- Test Data Management -- Creating packages -- Creating the Application Data Model -- Data subsetting -- Applications -- Table Rules -- Rule Parameters -- Space Estimates -- Pre/Post Subset Script -- Generate Subset -- Benefits and capabilities -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Data Masking -- Finding sensitive data -- Creating data masking definitions -- New capabilities -- Adding columns to mask -- Defining the masking format -- Advanced options -- Generated Script -- Scheduling the job -- Testing the results -- Format library -- Benefits and capabilities -- Summary -- Ease the Chaos with Exadata Management -- Meeting the challenges -- Discovering Exadata -- Adding the hosts -- Adding non-host targets -- Adding the cluster and databases -- Monitoring and managing Exadata -- Database machine resource utilization -- Exadata grid -- Infiniband network -- Database performance pages -- Total capabilities -- Summary -- Real-life Examples and Case Studies, and It's a Wrap: The Future is the Cloud -- Case study - telecom -- Case study - pharmaceutical -- Case study - computer manufacturer -- Case study - online store -- Case study - financial institution -- Case study - university -- Future of cloud computing -- Summary -- Index.