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Oracle Database 12c: Partitioning enhancements Part I – Reference partitioning

Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. This blog posting will present some enhancements in relation to reference partitioning. The differences between the Oracle 11g R2 and Oracle 12c releases will be shown using practical examples. TRUNCATE and EXCHANGE with the CASCADE option With Oracle 12c, it is now possible to use the CASCADE option to cascade operations to… 

Processor licensing for Oracle database on VMware ESX

In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model.…