Just finished my Birds of a Feather XMLDB panel session in the Marriott Hotel and now looking back on a event full day. It all started of with a Keynote session with among others Mark Hurd. the most interesting bit, in my honest opinion, was the announcement of more details in Oracle 12c. I will come back later on this, as far as I am allowed being a beta participant, but hereby some shots from the Keynote session that will give you a pretty good idea on usefulness of pluggable databases in Oracle 12c.

XMLDB News

So with all this excitement going on about 12c, are there already some small details about new XMLDB functionality. Via a Tom Kyte presentation, Hands-on Labs and some other sessions, the following details were made available to the public. Keen on XMLDB stuff, this is what I picked up.

  • XMLDB is now an integrate, mandatory part of the database
  • XQuery Update facility, already available in 11.2.0.3, is now a fully supported standards in 12c and onwards
  • XQuery Full Text search, is now available, in Oracle 12c
  • XMLType CLOB based storage will be deprecated in Oracle 12c

As with all Oracle 12c related things at this time, Oracle will have the last word if it also More >