Last month (Feb 2018) another version of Oracle to think about. Other than us DBAs, will anybody really care ? The version numbering has been fine for what seems forever. After the 'i's and the 'g's and the 'c's at least the numbers followed on. Now we have jumped from 12c to 18c - what happens to 13,14,15,16 & 17 ? I can only presume 18 as it is 2018 so why not call it that, because in a few years time it will seem very old. At least I know 18c is really 12.2.0.2 and they have not called it Oracle X or some other stupid marketing name. Maybe Oracle should be more imaginative and go down the car road (maybe it already has talking about "self-driving") - Oracle GTD or Oracle GTi perhaps ? Why I don't work in marketing. I suppose this means anybody using 12c will feel like a dinosaur when Oracle 19 and 20 turn up.
I have been reading about it and the 18c version seems like a cloud only database and will be completely autonomous (it will patch itself, fix issues "auto-magically" and autotune). So either way, if it is truly autonomous, there wouldn't be a need for any Oracle DBAs - hmmm. Mind you, Oracle have been pretty crafty as the database will only be autonomous if Oracle have it on their cloud. So if you are an Amazon shop well that is too bad. Sure it will all become clear by the summer.
https://diginomica.com/2018/01/29/reminder-oracle-18c-is-only-autonomous-if-oracle-runs-it-for-you/
It did get confusing talking about R12 (E-Biz) and 12c (the RDBMS) but jumping from 12 to 18 seems a bit strange. Maybe Oracle were worried about having an unlucky version 13 but surely professional staff can't be superstitious - can they ?
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