Registering Cloud Links to access data
Cloud Links enable you to remotely access read only data on an Autonomous Database instance.
You can register a table for remote access for a selected audience. Scope indicates who can remotely access the data. Scope can be set to various levels, including to the region where the database resides, to individual tenancies, or to compartments. You can provide a namespace and a name other than the original schema and object names. For example, you can register a table under the namespace FOREST and for security purposes or for naming convenience, you can provide a namespace and a name other than the original schema and object names.
To register a table to cloud link, click Actions next to the Table entity and select Register to Cloud Link.
- Cloud Link Namespace: Enter a namespace to register the table. For example, ADMIN.
- Cloud Link Name: Enter a name for the cloud link. For example, Sales.
- Description: Specify the description of your cloud link.
- Scope: Specifies who and from where a user is allowed to access the registered table.
You can choose from any of the following available options:
- MY$REGION: You can grant remote data access to other tenancies in the region of the Autonomous Database instance that is registering the data set. This is the least restrictive scope.
- MY$TENANCY: You can grant remote data access to any resource, tenancy, compartment, or database in the tenancy of the Autonomous Database instance that is registering the data set. This scope is more restrictive than MY$REGION scope.
- MY$COMPARTMENT: You can grant remote data access to any resource, compartment, or database in the compartment of the Autonomous Database instance that is registering the data set.
- OCID: Access to the data set is allowed for the specific Autonomous Database instances identified by OCID.
Click OK to finish the registration of the selected table with the cloud link.
Parent topic: The Catalog Tool