Key to Oracle's ascendance in the data world was the ease of creating new relational databases. Within minutes, a project can have an accompanying database for any stage of development. However, a few decades and change of database creation takes its toll on management and storage, and, as this expert E-Guide notes, there is a paradigm shift happening in database management: a shift from proliferation to consolidation.

In this E-Guide, discover what the experts are saying about database consolidation for Oracle -- how not to lose functionality, why to consolidate, and some best practices therein. Also included is an in-depth discussion of session schema management, as part of a series on Oracle database consolidation.