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).

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 ...

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.

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Andrew Mendelsohn, SVP, Oracle Database Server Technologies As organizations evolve their products, business models, and processes to keep pace with today’s dynamic ...

With the recent release of Oracle Database 12c, relational database management and cloud computing have finally—thankfully—come together in a way that makes it easy for IT departments to ...

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.

Oracle is expanding its container efforts with the official public debut of three new open-source utilities designed to help improve application container security and performance. The tools ...