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Oracle Database / Oracle VM

Oracle VM 3.4.3

In recent weeks Oracle has released VM 3.4.3 The principal enhancements present in this release are: Installation and Upgrades: – Simplified UEFI PXE Boot for Oracle VM Server Infrastructure: – Support for Software RAID Devices with Oracle VM Server – Support for Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering – Update to Oracle VM Agent for SPARC – Update to the dom0 Kernel – Updates to Multipath Configuration for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Performance and Scalability: – Improved Job completion performance – Improved Storage refresh performance – Improved Performance With Multiple Concurrent Connections to the Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Usability:...

Oracle Database / Oracle Database 12 c

ORACLE 12C : Extended Data Type

With the previous Oracle database release, long characters strings of more then 4000 bytes had to be handled using CLOB or LONG data types. Starting from Oracle 12c was introduced a new system parameter: MAX_STRING_SIZE. This parameter allows string data types to be much larger when the parameter is changed from its default value STANDARD to EXTENDED. New higher limits (in bytes) are available for following types: – VARCHAR2 – 32767 bytes – NVARCHAR – 32767 bytes – RAW – 32767 bytes To use extended version you need to set new initialization parameter MAX_STRING_SIZE and run sql script utl32k.sql. Set...