Changes in This Release for Oracle Universal Connection Pool Developer's Guide

The following features are new in this release:

• Shared Pool Support for Sharded Databases

  See "Shared Pool for Sharded Databases"

• Shared Pool Support for Multitenant Data Sources

  See "Shared Pool Support for Multitenant Data Sources"

• Switch Service Enhancement

  Starting from Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1), you can use the SET CONTAINER statement in the following way, if you want to switch among pluggable databases, while continuing to use user services with full service functionality:

  ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER=<container name> SERVICE=<service name>;
  

• Support for setting connection validation frequency

  See "Minimizing Connection Request Delay"

• Support for feature-specific logging at runtime

  "Enabling or Disabling Feature-Specific Logging at Runtime"

• Real-World Performance Enhancement

  See "About Optimizing Real-World Performance with Static Connection Pools"