We are upgrading Oracle from 11.1.0.7 to 12.1.0.4 (or the latest when we get there), as well as our SDE to ArcGIS 10.1 SP1.
The reason for moving to Oracle 12c is that Oracle 11.2 premium support ends Jan 2015, it will take us that long to get there.
Our new database servers are beefy, making Oracle 12c multitenancy a good fit.
I need time to put my hands on these latest versions, from the onset I can't see how SDE would work at the container level, but perhaps it would work from the pluggable level. Or maybe there would be a way to make it work. We use roles extensively in our current SDE management with one data owner. The concept of one data owner with versioned geodatabases needs to change with SDE 10.1 prompting a rearchitecture of how we have been doing GIS database business anyway. The only certainty is change I guess.
Has anyone implemented SDE with Oracle 12c? What are you experiences?
Oracle 12c support in ArcGIS was introduced at 10.2.1, and only at the pluggable database level.
I doubt you could make ArcSDE 10.1sp1 function with Oracle 12c.
- V