Oracle 18c is on the cloud now

After Valentine Day, Oracle officially released Oracle Database 18c on the Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems on Feb.16. If you still follow the old Oracle release pattern, Oracle 18c is equivalent to Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.2).

To get to know more about this release, besides reading Oracle official blog above, you can digest the following blogs from several Oracle gurus.

• Oracle Database 18c Released (Maria Colgan)

• Oracle Database 18c released for Oracle Cloud and )Engineered Systems (Mike Dietrich)

• Oracle Database 18c Released : How to Get Started (Tim Hall)

If you want to know the new features of this release, you can take a look at the following guide:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/18/newft/new-features.html

Since this new release is not available for on-premise environment yet, you can try it with LiveSQL even you don't have Oracle Cloud account:

https://livesql.oracle.com/apex/livesql/file/index.html

No more wait - Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is available everywhere (not only on the cloud)!

On March 1, 2017,  Oracle Database 12c Release 2 became fully available (not only on the Cloud). Here is the link for download:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

The following is the blog link from Maria Colgan about it:

https://sqlmaria.com/2017/03/01/oracle-database-12c-release-2-available-everywhere/

Also, you can check the blog from Tim Hall about it:

https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/oracle-db-12cr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-6-and-7

So, you can try and play it on your own box.

Enjoy!