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New Features for Developers, Report Writers, and Power Users

If you’re an Oracle developer, report writer, DBA, or call yourself a power user, Oracle Database 12c Release 2 has some new features for you. For developers in particular, many of these new features will make your job easier. First, I’ll show how most of the existing conversion functions (and a couple of new ones) give you the opportunity to recover from conversion issues more gracefully. As a report writer, you’ll be able to return results more quickly by using the existing approximation functions more automatically. As a DBA, you’ll be able to help report writers by changing ...

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