The "c" in the Oracle Database 12c means cloud. In June 2013, Oracle Database 12c introduced the multi-tenant architecture to make the database ready for cloud deployments. The key use cases are database consolidation and providing database cloud services. The following are tutorials in several key areas:
Multitenant Architecture
With new architecture, Oracle database can function as a multi-tenant container database (CDB) including 0 to many pluggable databases (PDBs).
Multitenant Architecture
With new architecture, Oracle database can function as a multi-tenant container database (CDB) including 0 to many pluggable databases (PDBs).
Created 8/21/2013, Last Updated: 7/7/2017.