Click the name of the Autonomous Database for which you want to delete a
peer database.
On the Autonomous Database details page, click the
Disaster Recovery tab.
In the Peer database section, for the peer database that you want to
delete, click more_vertView actions,
and then click Delete.
In the Delete Autonomous Database dialog, enter the peer database
name and click Confirm.
The deletion of the peer database might take a few hours. On the
Disaster recovery tab, in the Peer database section, the
Status field shows you the progress of the delete operation. When the
peer database is deleted, it's removed from the peer database list.
gcloud
You can use the gcloud oracle-database autonomous-databases delete
command to delete a peer database.
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