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Oracle Database 12.2 – PDBaaS

By Franck Pachot . It's official, Larry Ellison made the announcement at first keynote and the database product team at oracle has released the version and the documentation publicly. Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service is the 'Cloud First' environment(…)

Oracle 12cR2 SQL new feature: LISTAGG overflow

By Franck Pachot . LISTAGG was a great feature introduced in 11g: put rows into line with a simple aggregate function. 12cR2 adds an overflow clause to it. What happens when you have so many rows that the LISTAGG(…)

Question is: upgrade now to 12.1.0.2 or wait for 12.2 ?

By Franck Pachot . Let's look at Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1) 12.2.0.1 is planned for 2HCY2016 on platforms Linux x86-64, Oracle Solaris SPARC (64-bit), Oracle Solaris x86-64 (64-bit). 2HCY2016 starts next(…)

You are in Standard Edition One? Don’t worry.

By Franck Pachot . You want the amazing features of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL with minimal cost. Your database is too large for Oracle XE edition, but not big enough to require the cost of Enterprise Edition. You accept to(…)