The cold continues…
I decided than rather than trying to sit in sessions and struggle to cope I would do my stint at RAC Attack and spend the day on the demo grounds…
The demo grounds are a really awesome way to get information because you are often speaking to the developers and product specialists working on code itself. In my opinion, you get a much better fix on what is going on that sitting in a presentation.
I got to speak to a bunch of people for a few hours about:
- Oracle Linux (Lenz Grimmer).
- Unstructured Data and XML DB (Mark Drake).
– XML DB is mandatory in 12c.
– The new Enterprise Manager Express runs from within the database using the XML DB infrastructure,. This replaces the deprecated Database Control. - Optimizer enhancements in 12c (Alison Lee and Maria Colgan).
– Adaptive Plans : The optimizer can change the plan during execution if it determines the cardinality estimates it made are not accurate.
– Adaptive Statistics : The optimizer can store information about adaptive plans to allow it to make better estimates in future.
– Existing information, like cardinality feedback can now be persisted, rather than being aged out and lost. - DBFS Enhancements in 12c.
– Addition of WebDav support, so other platforms can use it as a real filesystem, without the Linux FUSE project. - Edition-Based Redefinition Enhancements in 12c.
– Marking objects as non-editionalble. - Pluggable Databases in 12c.
– Separating the internal Oracle metadata (container database – CDB) from the user metadata (plugable database – PDB)
– Easier upgrades, clones and migrations.
– Reduced namespace clashes. Public synonyms and DB links for each plugable database within the same instance. - Compression Enhancements in 12c (Graham Wood).
- Far Sync Server (Graham Wood).
- SQL Developer.
- Data Redaction in 12c.
- Data masking and data subsetting in Cloud Control 12cR2.
Sorry if I missed anyone or anything out of the list.
I think it may have been the Blogger meetup last night, but I was too tired so I went back to the hotel and dropped into a coma for a few hours. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
