12C New Optimizer Features
Every new version of Oracle database has a new version of optimizer which possibly plays the most important role in customer's application/query performance.
12c has new features of optimizer as well. The biggest change in 12c is the new feature called Adaptive Query Optimization. 'Adaptive Query Optimization is a set
of capabilities that enable the optimizer to make run time adjustments to execution plans and discover additional information that can lead to better statistics.' The
following is a graph showing the component of adaptive query optimization:
To read further details on how adaptive query optimization works, please read our white paper: