anchor.diff:  It is possible and even recommended to use the link:/docs/faq/#avro-converter[Avro Converter] to dramatically decrease the size of the actual messages written to the Kafka topics.
   ====
   
  -[[update-events]]
  +[[oracle-update-events]]
   ===== Update events
   The value of an _update_ change event on this table will actually have the exact same _schema_, and its payload will be structured the same but will hold different values.
   Here's an example:
  
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  [[deploying-a-connector]]
  == Deploying a Connector
  
  Due to licensing requirements, the Debezium Oracle Connector does not ship with the Oracle JDBC driver and the XStream API JAR.
  
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  Please refer to the xref:operations/monitoring.adoc[monitoring documentation] for details of how to expose these metrics via JMX.
  
  [[oracle-monitoring-snapshots]]
  [[oracle-snapshot-metrics]]
  ==== Snapshot Metrics
  
  The *MBean* is `debezium.oracle:type=connector-metrics,context=snapshot,server=_<database.server.name>_`.
  
  include::{partialsdir}/modules/cdc-all-connectors/r_connector-monitoring-snapshot-metrics.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
  
  [[oracle-monitoring-streaming]]
  [[oracle-streaming-metrics]]
  ==== Streaming Metrics
  
  The *MBean* is `debezium.oracle:type=connector-metrics,context=streaming,server=_<database.server.name>_`.
  
  include::{partialsdir}/modules/cdc-all-connectors/r_connector-monitoring-streaming-metrics.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
  
  [[oracle-monitoring-schema-history]]
  [[oracle-schema-history-metrics]]
  ==== Schema History Metrics
  
  The *MBean* is `debezium.mysql:type=connector-metrics,context=schema-history,server=_<database.server.name>_`.
  
  include::{partialsdir}/modules/cdc-all-connectors/r_connector-monitoring-schema-history-metrics.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
  
  [[oracle-connector-properties]]
  === Connector Properties
  
  The following configuration properties are _required_ unless a default value is available.
  