In development for roughly four years, Oracle Database 12c introduces so many important new capabilities in so many areas — database consolidation, query optimization, performance tuning, high ...

In some cases, you may want to disable the RAC options for testing purposes -- perhaps to run a benchmark or convert the RAC binaries to single instance binaries. In such a case, you can use the ...

Since the launch of Oracle Database 12c, we at Oracle have received several questions about the new management capabilities built into Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Here are the answers to some of ...

RAC databases have more than one instance using the same set of resources, and a resource may be requested by more than one instance. Resource sharing is well managed by Global Cache Services (GCS) ...

Oracle did not stop at merely providing a mechanism to identify transaction status. Version 12c also introduces Application Continuity. With this feature, a new client-side replay driver remembers ...