An Oracle database is a multi-tenant container database (CDB) that holds one system seed pluggable database and any number of user-created pluggable databases (PDBs).

Oracle Multitenant allows you to rapidly provision “tenants” (pluggable databases) from a single database container. Using Multitenant gives you the agility to clone copies of databases in ...

During Quest Forum Digital Event: Innovation Week, William Hardie, vice president of Oracle Database product management, outlined the newest features and updates to Oracle Database. His presentation ...

Despite the flip-flop, 12c is a really good idea to get enterprises interested in Oracle's next big version of its database. 12c is what Ellison calls a "container database." It's function is to ...

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 ...

Andy Mendelsohn, executive vice president for database server technologies at Oracle, highlights the innovative capabilities of Oracle Database 12c Release 2.

Oracle’s new pluggable database feature reduces the risk of consolidation because the DBA can easily plug or unplug an existing database to or from a container database.

Oracle also announced a cloud-based backup service as well as the ability to replicate their Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance to Oracle’s cloud.

Sometime next year, Oracle will launch a brand new kind of database. It's called Oracle 12c and the c stands for cloud. Larry Ellison has been eating a lot of crow in 2012 over his previous not ...