With Oracle Database 19c being available on Exadata now, and most likely soon on-prem as well, there’s a significant change you should be aware of when using image processing features inside the database: Oracle Multimedia will be removed in Oracle Database 19c. Oracle Multimedia will be removed in Oracle Database 19c When you upgrade or migrate your database to Oracle 19c, then Oracle Multimedia APIs will be still exist but won’t function anymore. Read here in the Oracle Database 19c Upgrade Guide: Desupport of Oracle Multemedia Oracle Multimedia is desupported in Oracle Database 19c, and the implementation is removed. As…
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Oracle Multimedia is deprecated in Oracle 18c
While I was writing the blog post about Creating CDBs and non-CDBs with less options I realized that Oracle Multimedia is deprecated in Oracle 18c – but I haven’t mentioned this here yet. Oracle Multimedia is deprecated in Oracle 18c Oracle Multimedia was called Oracle Intermedia a long time ago when we introduced it back in the Oracle 8i days. I don’t know how many people really used it, but it is part of a standard installation if you didn’t explicitly turned it off or deinstalled it. And from Oracle 18c on, Oracle Multimedia is deprecated. Meaning, it won’t develop…
Oracle Database 18c – Some important changes
I know that Oracle Database 18c is available in the Oracle Cloud and on Exadata engineered systems only right now. But actually I’ve had conversations with some customers who downloaded Oracle 18c on-prem software for Exadata and installed it on their systems. Therefore it may be useful to talk about Oracle Database 18c – Some important changes. Oracle Database 18c – Some important changes I will highlight some important changes but of course won’t cover all of them here. Installation You may recognize the first change after downloading the image: The installation and configuration of Oracle Database software is simplified…