Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
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Oracle Database Release 18c New Features
- Application Development
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Availability
- Application Continuity
- Data Guard
- General
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Sharding
- Centralized Diagnosability and Manageability for Sharded Databases
- Support for PDBs as Shards and Catalogs
- User-Defined Sharding Method
- Sharding Support for JSON, LOBs, and Spatial Objects
- Consistency Levels for Multi-Shard Queries
- Optimizer Enhancements for Sharded Database Queries
- Automatic Deployment of Oracle GoldenGate
- Oracle GoldenGate Automatic CDR
- Oracle RAC Sharding
- Automatic CDR Support of Tables with Unique Indexes/Constraints.
- Big Data and Data Warehousing
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Database Overall
- Connection Management
- Container Database Architecture
- Globalization
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Install, config, and patch
- Engineered Systems support
- Zero-Downtime Database Upgrade
- Gold Image Distribution among RHP Servers
- Local Switch Home for Applying Updates
- Authentication Plug-in
- Configuration Drift Reporting and Resolution
- Command Scheduler and Bulk Operations
- Dry Run Command Validation
- New Default Location of Oracle Database Password File
- Read-Only Oracle Home
- RPM-based Database Installation
- Partitioning
- Tuning
- Utilities
- Diagnosability
- Performance
- RAC and Grid
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Security
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General
- Ability to Create a User-Defined Master Encryption Key
- Ability to Use Encrypted Passwords for Database Links with Oracle Data Pump
- Ability to Create a Keystore for Each Pluggable Database
- Ability to Use Oracle Data Pump to Export and Import the Unified Audit Trail
- Integration of Active Directory Services with Oracle Database
- Ability to Create Schema Only Accounts
- Ability to Encrypt Sensitive Credential Data in the Data Dictionary
- Encryption of Sensitive Data in Database Replay Files
- Oracle Database Vault Support for Oracle Database Replay
- Enhancements to Oracle Database Vault Simulation Mode
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General