Features

Feature List: Oracle Database 10g

By Dilip Thomas

Oracle Corporation has unveiled the first relational database designed for Grid Computing , Oracle Database 10g. The new release promises to deliver faster response times, lower costs with the self-managing database and provide state-of-the-art security. Here's a quick run down of some of the new features:

Self-management

->Enhanced Performance Self-Diagnostics
--->Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
--->Current Activity Performance Analysis
--->Workload Repository Diff-Diff Reporting
->Drop empty datafiles in tablespaces
->Segment advisor runs automatically
->Automation of manual processes

Database Storage Grid

->Enhanced Provisioning
->Enhanced virtualization
->Oracle cluster file system for Solaris

Oracle Secure Backup

->Low Cost Tape Backup
->ASM files–Database files
->Recovery areas
->O/S files

Improved Data Warehousing

->Performance
--->Up to 10x improvement in sort performance
--->Up to 3x improvement in aggregate performance
->Partitioning
--->Increase partitions per table from 64k to 512K
--->Support ‘multidimensional’partition-pruning
->Analytics
--->Enhancements to the SQL ‘model’clause
--->Decision trees in Oracle Data Mining

Oracle Database 10g offers a direct upgrade path from Oracle 9i and Oracle 8i. Oracle database 10g downloads are available from this page.

http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html


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