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Application Containers and Hints Thereof

This chapter introduces new features of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 related to a completely new feature called Oracle Application Containers. Although container databases (CDBs) aren’t new, Oracle Database 12c Release 2 uses CDBs in a new way with application containers. A database that is scalable provides for easy distribution of resources that are needed to perform the work at hand—new features such as application containers and sharding are central to scalability in Oracle Database 12c Release 2. Agility refers to the flexibility of the database architecture to respond to all sorts of incremental ...

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