Now available! https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/books.html Going through the New Features guide, there is a shed load of wonderful enhancements. Then you look at the Licensing guide, and most of them require Exadata or Oracle Cloud or both.
Many times I’ve seen the question on forums “How can I move a table from one schema to another?” and the answer is always that you can’t. You have to copy it. Or export/import it. Well, here’s a way. It …
A very nice licensing change in 19c: you can now have up to three PDBs in a Standard Edition Multitenant database. Apart from the obvious advantage of being able to do some database consolidation, it gives SE2 users the ability …
Comparing database 12cR1 release 12.1.0.2 to 12cR2 release 12.2.0.0.3, I see these new parameters: adg_imc_enabled TRUE Enable IMC support on ADG allow_global_dblinks FALSE LDAP lookup for DBLINKS allow_group_access_to_sga FALSE Allow read access for SGA to users of Oracle owner group …
HCC is available only on Oracle supplied storage, such as a ZFS storage appliance or (as in this case) an Exadata engineered system. Furthermore, it occurs only for direct loads: in my examples, using CTAS. This is the script I’m …