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: Building on 12c R1, Release 2 introduced PDB Hot Clone , allowing you to clone pluggable databases without taking them offline. It also expanded capacity to support up to 4,000 PDBs per container database.

: For massive OLTP workloads, 12.2 introduced horizontal partitioning (sharding) across a pool of independent databases, enabling extreme scalability without requiring shared storage. Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Free Download

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