Uses machine learning to capture, identify, and verify candidate indexes. It validates them against the workload and only implements them if they improve performance, reducing manual tuning significantly. Real-Time Statistics:

Introduced in 19.7, these allow developers to factor out common SQL expressions into reusable, parameterized constructs. Unlike traditional views or functions, these macros are expanded directly in the SQL statement, which can improve performance and code readability.

To prevent "runaway" queries from exhausting system resources, 19c can automatically quarantine SQL statements that exceed specific resource thresholds, preventing them from running again until addressed. Oracle Blogs 2. SQL & Application Development

SELECT LISTAGG(product_name, ', ' ON OVERFLOW TRUNCATE '...' WITH COUNT) FROM products;