Chapter 3. What is New in 12c

Oracle Database 12c has introduced many new features and enhancements for backup and recovery. This chapter will introduce you to some of them and later in this book, you will have the opportunity to learn in more detail how they could be used in real life situations. But I cannot start talking about Oracle 12c without talking first about a revolutionary whole new concept that was introduced with this new version of the database product, called Multitenant Container Database (CDB) that will contain two or more pluggable databases (PDB).

Note

When a container database only contains one PDB it is called Single Tenant Container Database. You can also have your database on Oracle 12c using the same format as before 12c, it will be called non-CDB database and will not allow the use of PDBs.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Pluggable database

• RMAN's new features and enhancements

• Data Pump's new features and enhancements