Oracle 12c Release 2 introduced new features for improved performance, high availability, development, and more. Also, Oracle 12c Release 2 was the first Oracle database that was launched as a cloud-first database powered by the Oracle Cloud platform. In this course, explore some of the most interesting new features, and learn what you need to know to create and connect to a database in the Oracle Cloud. David Yahalom shows how to register for an Oracle Cloud account, and create new databases using the user interfaces. He also provides hands-on demos of some of the most exciting new features available exclusively in Oracle 12c Release 2, includingnew features for pluggable databases (PDBs) and partition management.


* Registering for a new Oracle Cloud free trial account
* Creating an Oracle 12c R2 database in the Oracle Cloud
* Configuring SSH access to the database
* Advanced database configuration
* Connecting to your Oracle Cloud database
* PDB resource management
* PDB cloning
* PDB flashback
* Read-only partitions
* Transforming non-partitioned tables to partitioned tables automatically
* Creating a table for Exchange automatically
* Automatic list partitioning