From May 15 to 19, I took the training course - Oracle
Database 12c R2: New Features for 12c R1 Administrators Ed 1 (5 days) at ExitCertified
Toronto. The instructor was Eric Wong.
By considering that Oracle
Database 12c Release 2 was only available outside the Cloud in March, this training
was quite new. Except those early players on the cloud, inside Oracle or “hired”
by Oracle, there was really not many people to use or test this new release.
This 5-day course was really intensive. As described in the
course outline, I was expected to learn the following knowledge:
Different from the Oracle training course I took before,
this one focused more on practice (>=70%). The instructor really didn’t talk
too much about any topics. Some of topics only had less than 5 slides. I spent most of my 5 days to practice, precisely
speaking, cut and pasted the commands from the PDF guide. So it is not hard for
you to imagine how “intensive” the training was.
When you spent most of time to catch up the practice, there
was really not much time and energy for you to digest the “New Features”. It
will leave to us either reviewing the course materials again after training or
recalling it when using the new features in our work. No matter which option,
we need to spend more time to get familiar with those new features before we
totally forget.
To briefly summarize what I learned in the training, I would
like to draw several high-level points below:
- From database container (CDB) to application container – Oracle will make the database software more robust and agile to support application development.
- Make PDB as isolate/independent as possible (from CDB) in terms of resource management, performance management, availability (backup/recovery), portability, etc.
- Make database and related product more cloud-ready including security enhancement, monitoring (Grid Control), etc.
- Continue to enhance the security features including auditing, privilege control, data redaction, encryption, etc.
- Continue to enhance the performance improvement automation such as Optimizer Statistics Advisor.
- Continue to enhance the database availability and online operations including PDB hot clone, online redefinition, online DDL capabilities and partitioning.
- Continue to enhance the management tools including DB operations monitoring, SQL*Plus, SQLcl, ADR automatic space file management, etc.
- Oracle Database 12c R2 Rapid Home Provisioning and Maintenance:
May 17, 2017 session: http://www.oracleracsig.org/events/oracle-database-12c-release-2-rapid-home-provisioning-and-maintenance/
Jan 13, 2016 (12c R1): http://www.oracleracsig.org/events/oracle-rapid-home-provisioning/
- Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR)
All in all, the best training materials for the new release are still the reference books from Oracle. Among them, it is the bible - Oracle Database Concepts, 12c Release 2 (12.2).
