Cloud Control to Major Tom

In case you hadn't heard already from here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or even here, 12c has been released for download.  That's not the whole story though, since you'll want to know why to upgrade or even how to do it step by step as a RAC on your laptop, on Linux 5 and 6, and on Linux 6 using VirtualBox.

So all of that really leaves us in the what do we already know category.  Luckily for us some of the top Oracle minds are already sharing with us:  Kerry Osborne is making a recent presentation on 12c Adaptive Optimization available to us, Jonathan Lewis is giving us great ideas about how to start debugging with 12c, letting us know about a new view naming constraint, and whether or not the with function is deterministic yet, and there is an introduction from Tom Kyte to a new error logging package named UTL_CALL_STACK and a new feature called SQL Text Expansion driven by EXPAND_SQL_TEXT.  All said, no release is complete without webcasts, or certifications!

Whew, I think that's the most links I've ever put in a single post!  I hope you've enjoyed this "metapost" which has brought together some of the best 12c links of the week.