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data-platform/data-development/devops-database/continuous-integration/db-supporting-features/README.md

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 # Oracle Database Continuous Integration Supporting Features
-Reviewed: "21.12.2023"
+Reviewed: "15.01.2024"
 
+To support LifeCycle changes the Oracle Database & APEX provide serveral PL/SQL Packages to support Metadata management. Maintianing a log or history of changes provides the abaility to track changes over time, associate updates with modification requests or bugs and support analysis of code.
+
+Databases, like files on the desktop, only a single version is saved by the storage engine in a consistent manner, ensuring the data's (metadata) integrity.
+
+The primary PL/SQL package are: 
+[DBMS_METADATA](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_METADATA.html#GUID-F72B5833-C14E-4713-A588-6BDF4D4CBA2A) 
+- The DBMS_METADATA package provides a way for you to retrieve metadata from the database dictionary as XML or creation DDL and to submit the XML to re-create the object.
+
+## [APEX_EXPORT](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/23.2/aeapi/APEX_EXPORT.html#GUID-6A4628A6-9F86-4394-9938-87A7FFFC7BC8) 
+- The APEX_EXPORT package provides APIs to export the definitions of applications, files, feedback, and workspaces to text files.
+
+## [DBMS_CLOUD_REPO](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/serverless/adbsb/dbms-cloud-repo-package.html#GUID-F8F0037B-6451-4742-9144-9FCE44459F64) 
+- The DBMS_CLOUD_REPO package provides for use of and management of cloud hosted code repositories from Oracle Database. Supported cloud code repositories include GitHub, AWS CodeCommit , and Azure Repos.
+## ORDS_MODULE 
+- ORDS_MODULE provides PL/SQL APIs to manage ORDS objects, oauth clients, priviledges, roles and modules. Currently ORDS_MODULE is only documented in the code of the various packages, functions and views.
 
 
 # Table of Contents
- 
-1. TBD - DBMS_METADATA
-2. TBD - DBMS_CLOUD
-3. TBD - ORDS_METADATA
+1. [Team Publications](#team-publications)
+2. [Useful Links](#useful-links)
+3. [Tutorials / How To's](#tutorials-how-tos)
 
 
 # Team Publications
-- TBD
+- ## DevOps with ADB using DBMS_CLOUD
+   - [Part 1](https://medium.com/oracledevs/apex-service-can-devops-too-dbms-cloud-on-autonomous-72be9842d2f8)
+   - [Part 2](https://medium.com/oracledevs/apex-service-devops-part-2-ed737a4fc583)
 
 # Useful Links
-- TBD
+## Documentation
+- [DBMS_METADATA](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_METADATA.html#GUID-F72B5833-C14E-4713-A588-6BDF4D4CBA2A "Oracle Database 19c PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference") 
+- [DBMS_METADATA](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sutil/using-oracle-dbms_metadata-api.html#GUID-D9B1300F-B21D-416E-8B9B-C542195EF249 "Oracle Database 19c Using the Metadata APIs")
+- [APEX_EXPORT](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/23.2/aeapi/APEX_EXPORT.html#GUID-6A4628A6-9F86-4394-9938-87A7FFFC7BC8 "APEX 23.2 API Reference")
+- [DBMS_CLOUD_REPO](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/serverless/adbsb/dbms-cloud-repo-package.html#GUID-F8F0037B-6451-4742-9144-9FCE44459F64 "Autonomous Database Supplied Package Reference") 
+
+
+## [ThatJeffSmith](https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/tag/liquibase/ "That Jeff Smith and Liquibase")
+- [BLOG: How to Export Your RESTful Services](https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2018/12/how-to-export-your-restful-services/)
 
-## Scripts
-- TBD
 
 # Tutorials / How To's
 - TBD