The document describes the steps to configure Oracle sharding in an Oracle 12c environment. It includes installing Oracle software on shardcat, shard1, and shard2 nodes, creating an SCAT database, installing the GSM software, configuring the shard catalog, registering the shard nodes, creating a shard group and adding shards, deploying the shards to create databases on shard1 and shard2, verifying the shard configuration, creating a global service, and creating a sample schema and shard table to verify distribution across shards.