1. Samantha Strockbine COSC 380 October 9, 2013
Oracle 12c
Samantha Strockbine
COSC 380
October 9, 2013

2. Overview
History of Oracle
Updates
Advantages
Oracle’s future plans

3. History Oracle has leading database software for 30 years.
June 16, 1977: Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates
1978: Oracle version 1 in assembly language
1981: Changed to C programming language
1984: Oracle version 4 released. Read Consistency
1988: Introduces PL/SQL
1995: 64-bit RDBMS
1999: XML support
2001: Record broken for 3 TB TPC-H
2003: Oracle 10g

4. Oracle updates
After
Before

5. Oracle 12c updates Pluggable database Cardinality feedback
Adaptive re-optimization
Concurrent execution
High availability
Transaction Guard
Partitioning enhancements

6. Other minor updates Materialized view refresh IPv6 support
Parallel upgrade
Password files in ASM

7. Advantages Concurrent execution- reduced wait time
Pluggable database allows back up and recovery
Perform point in time recovery
Database consolidation- saves money, space
Multiple indexes can be created on the same set of columns

8. Future Plans
“What does Oracle have in store for tomorrow? We will continue to provide our customers with hardware and software engineered to work together—integrated from disk to applications ─ that meet their business needs and solve their business problems. And we will continue to innovate and to lead the industry, while always making sure that we focus on solving the problems of the customers who rely on our technology.”

9. Conclusion History of Oracle Updates Advantages
Future plans for Oracle

10. Resources