11g New Features

Oracle® Database
New Features Guide

11g Release 2 (11.2)
E17128-04
October 2010
Oracle Database New Features Guide is addressed to people
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would like to become familiar with features, options, and
enhancements that are new in this release of the database.
Oracle Database New Features Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2)
E17128-04
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Contents
List of Tables
Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xiii

Audience..................................................................................................................................................... xiii
Documentation Accessibility ................................................................................................................... xiii
Related Documents ................................................................................................................................... xiv
Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... xiv
1 Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features

1.1 Application Development ......................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1.1 Oracle Application Express ................................................................................................ 1-1
1.1.1.1 Application Date Format ............................................................................................. 1-1
1.1.1.2 Custom Themes ............................................................................................................ 1-2
1.1.1.3 Declarative BLOB Support .......................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.1.4 Documented JavaScript Libraries .............................................................................. 1-2
1.1.1.5 Enhanced Report Printing ........................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.1.6 Forms Conversion ........................................................................................................ 1-2
1.1.1.7 Improved Security ........................................................................................................ 1-3
1.1.1.8 Interactive Reporting Region...................................................................................... 1-3
1.1.1.9 Runtime-Only Installation........................................................................................... 1-3
1.1.2 Other General Development Features .............................................................................. 1-3
1.1.2.1 Support WITH HOLD Option for CURSOR DECLARATION in Pro*C ............. 1-3
1.1.2.2 Pro*C Support for 8-Byte Native Numeric Host Variable for INSERT
and FETCH 1-4
1.1.2.3 Pro*COBOL Support for 8-Byte Native Numeric Host Variable for INSERT
and FETCH .................................................................................................................... 1-4
1.1.2.4 JDBC Support for Time Zone Patching ..................................................................... 1-4
1.1.2.5 JDBC Support for SecureFile Zero-Copy LOB I/O and LOB Prefetching ........... 1-4
1.1.2.6 OCI Support for 8-Byte Integer Bind/Define........................................................... 1-4
1.2 Availability................................................................................................................................... 1-5
1.2.1 Backup and Recovery.......................................................................................................... 1-5
1.2.1.1 Automatic Block Repair............................................................................................... 1-5
1.2.1.2 Backup to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Using OSB Cloud
Computing ..................................................................................................................... 1-5
1.2.1.3 DUPLICATE Without Connection to Target Database........................................... 1-5
1.2.1.4 Enhanced Tablespace Point-In-Time Recovery (TSPITR)....................................... 1-6
1.2.1.5 New DUPLICATE Options ......................................................................................... 1-6
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1.2.1.6 New SET NEWNAME Clauses and Format Options.............................................. 1-6
1.2.1.7 Tablespace Checks in DUPLICATE ........................................................................... 1-7
1.2.2 Online Application Maintenance and Upgrade .............................................................. 1-7
1.2.2.1 Edition-based Redefinition.......................................................................................... 1-7
1.2.2.2 Enhance CREATE or REPLACE TYPE to Allow FORCE ....................................... 1-7
1.2.2.3 Fine-Grained Dependencies for Triggers.................................................................. 1-7
1.2.2.4 IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_INDEX Hint for INSERT Statement .................. 1-8
1.2.3 Oracle Data Guard............................................................................................................... 1-8
1.2.3.1 Compressed Table Support in Logical Standby Databases and Oracle
LogMiner ........................................................................................................................ 1-8
1.2.3.2 Configurable Real-Time Query Apply Lag Limit.................................................... 1-8
1.2.3.3 Integrated Support for Application Failover in a Data Guard Configuration .... 1-9
1.2.3.4 Support Up to 30 Standby Databases ........................................................................ 1-9
1.3 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing......................................................................... 1-9
1.3.1 Improved Analytics............................................................................................................. 1-9
1.3.1.1 Analytic Functions 2.0.................................................................................................. 1-9
1.3.1.2 Recursive WITH Clause............................................................................................... 1-9
1.3.2 Improved Data Loading .................................................................................................. 1-10
1.3.2.1 EXECUTE Privilege for DIRECTORY Objects ...................................................... 1-10
1.3.2.2 Preprocessing Data for ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver in
External Tables........................................................................................................... 1-10
1.3.3 Improved Partitioning ..................................................................................................... 1-10
1.3.3.1 Allow Virtual Columns in the Primary Key or Foreign Key for Reference
Partitioning ................................................................................................................. 1-11
1.3.3.2 System-Managed Indexes for List Partitioning..................................................... 1-11
1.3.4 Improved Performance and Scalability ......................................................................... 1-11
1.3.4.1 In-Memory Parallel Execution................................................................................. 1-11
1.3.4.2 Minimal Effort Parallel Execution - Auto Degree of Parallelism (DOP) and
Queuing ...................................................................................................................... 1-11
1.3.4.3 The DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE Package ........................................................ 1-12
1.3.4.4 Significant Performance Improvement of On-Commit Fast Refresh................. 1-12
1.3.5 Oracle Warehouse Builder............................................................................................... 1-12
1.3.5.1 Advanced Find Support in Mapping Editor ......................................................... 1-12
1.3.5.2 Business Intelligence Tool Integration.................................................................... 1-13
1.3.5.3 Copy and Paste of Operators and Attributes in Mapping Editor ...................... 1-13
1.3.5.4 Current Configuration Dropdown List in Design Center Toolbar .................... 1-13
1.3.5.5 Enhanced Support for Flat File Imports................................................................. 1-13
1.3.5.6 Enhanced Table Function Support.......................................................................... 1-14
1.3.5.7 Experts Available in Editor Menu........................................................................... 1-14
1.3.5.8 Expression Editing in Operator Edit Dialog.......................................................... 1-14
1.3.5.9 Grouping and Spotlighting of Objects in Mapping Editor.................................. 1-14
1.3.5.10 Improved Management of Locations Registered in Multiple Control
Centers ........................................................................................................................ 1-14
1.3.5.11 Improved User Interface for Managing Locations ............................................... 1-15
1.3.5.12 Key Lookup Operator Enhancements .................................................................... 1-15
1.3.5.13 Mapping Debugger Enhancements ........................................................................ 1-15
1.3.5.14 New JDeveloper-Style User Interface..................................................................... 1-15
1.3.5.15 Operator References Included in Generated PL/SQL Code............................... 1-16
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1.3.5.16 Quick Mapper ............................................................................................................ 1-16
1.3.5.17 Repository Browser Changes................................................................................... 1-16
1.3.5.18 Simplified Oracle Warehouse Builder Repository Upgrades ............................. 1-16
1.3.5.19 Support for Extracting Data From Tables Containing LONG Data Type......... 1-16
1.3.5.20 Support for Subqueries in Join Operator ............................................................... 1-16
1.4 Clustering.................................................................................................................................. 1-17
1.4.1 Oracle Real Application Clusters Ease-of-Use ............................................................. 1-17
1.4.1.1 Configuration Assistants Support New Oracle RAC Features........................... 1-17
1.4.1.2 Enhanced Cluster Verification Utility .................................................................... 1-17
1.4.1.3 Integration of Cluster Verification Utility and Oracle Universal Installer........ 1-17
1.4.1.4 Cluster Time Service ................................................................................................. 1-18
1.4.1.5 Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) Enhancements...................................................... 1-18
1.4.1.6 Grid Plug and Play (GPnP) ...................................................................................... 1-18
1.4.1.7 Oracle Restart ............................................................................................................. 1-18
1.4.1.8 Policy-Based Cluster and Capacity Management................................................. 1-19
1.4.1.9 Improved Clusterware Resource Modeling .......................................................... 1-19
1.4.1.10 Role-Separated Management................................................................................... 1-19
1.4.1.11 Agent Development Framework............................................................................. 1-19
1.4.1.12 Zero Downtime Patching for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC .................. 1-20
1.4.1.13 Enterprise Manager-Based Clusterware Resource Management....................... 1-20
1.4.1.14 Enterprise Manager Provisioning for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real
Application Clusters ................................................................................................. 1-20
1.4.1.15 Enterprise Manager Support for Grid Plug and Play .......................................... 1-20
1.4.1.16 Enterprise Manager Support for Oracle Restart ................................................... 1-20
1.4.1.17 Configuration Assistant Support for Removing Oracle RAC Installations ...... 1-21
1.4.1.18 Oracle Universal Installer Support for Removing Oracle RAC Installations ... 1-21
1.4.1.19 Improved Deinstallation Support With Oracle Universal Installer ................... 1-21
1.4.1.20 Downgrading Database Configured With DBControl......................................... 1-21
1.4.1.21 Oracle Restart Integration with Oracle Universal Installer................................. 1-22
1.4.1.22 Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade............................................................ 1-22
1.4.1.23 OUI Support for Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade.............................. 1-22
1.4.1.24 Server Control (SRVCTL) Enhancements .............................................................. 1-22
1.4.1.25 Server Control (SRVCTL) Enhancements to Support Grid Plug and Play ....... 1-22
1.4.1.26 SRVCTL Support for Single-Instance Database in a Cluster............................... 1-23
1.4.1.27 Universal Connection Pool (UCP) Integration with Oracle Data Guard .......... 1-23
1.4.1.28 UCP Integration With Oracle Real Application Clusters .................................... 1-23
1.4.1.29 Universal Connection Pool (UCP) for JDBC.......................................................... 1-23
1.4.1.30 Java API for Oracle RAC FAN High Availability Events.................................... 1-24
1.5 Database Overall ...................................................................................................................... 1-24
1.5.1 General ............................................................................................................................... 1-24
1.5.1.1 Flashback Data Archive Support for DDLs ........................................................... 1-24
1.5.1.2 Instance Caging.......................................................................................................... 1-24
1.5.2 Improvements to Oracle Scheduler................................................................................ 1-24
1.5.2.1 E-mail Notification .................................................................................................... 1-25
1.5.2.2 File Watcher................................................................................................................ 1-25
1.5.2.3 Multiple Destination Jobs......................................................................................... 1-25
1.5.2.4 Remote Database Jobs............................................................................................... 1-25
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1.5.3 Improvements to Utilities................................................................................................ 1-25
1.5.3.1 Data Pump Legacy Mode ......................................................................................... 1-25
1.5.4 IPv6 Support...................................................................................................................... 1-26
1.5.4.1 Complete IPv6 Support for JDBC Thin Clients ..................................................... 1-26
1.5.4.2 Complete IPv6 Support for JVM and Java Debuggers......................................... 1-26
1.6 Diagnosability........................................................................................................................... 1-26
1.6.1 Support Workbench ......................................................................................................... 1-26
1.6.1.1 Enterprise Manager Support Workbench for ASM.............................................. 1-26
1.7 Information Integration........................................................................................................... 1-27
1.7.1 Oracle Database XStream ................................................................................................ 1-27
1.7.1.1 XStream ....................................................................................................................... 1-27
1.8 Performance .............................................................................................................................. 1-27
1.8.1 General Server Performance ........................................................................................... 1-27
1.8.1.1 Database Smart Flash Cache .................................................................................... 1-27
1.8.1.2 Stored Outlines Migration to SQL Plan Management ......................................... 1-27
1.8.1.3 Client Result Cache Using Table Annotations Support....................................... 1-28
1.8.1.4 Support 4 KB Sector Disk Drives............................................................................. 1-28
1.9 Security ...................................................................................................................................... 1-28
1.9.1 Audit Data Management ................................................................................................. 1-28
1.9.1.1 Audit Trail Cleanup .................................................................................................. 1-28
1.9.2 Encryption Key Management ......................................................................................... 1-29
1.9.2.1 Tablespace Master Key Rekey ................................................................................. 1-29
1.10 Server Manageability............................................................................................................... 1-29
1.10.1 Automatic Storage Management for All Data .............................................................. 1-29
1.10.1.1 ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) ............................................................................ 1-29
1.10.1.2 ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (DVM)............................................................... 1-30
1.10.1.3 ASM FS Snapshot ...................................................................................................... 1-30
1.10.1.4 Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk on ASM ................................... 1-31
1.10.1.5 ASM Intelligent Data Placement ............................................................................. 1-31
1.10.1.6 ASM Storage Management Configuration Assistant ........................................... 1-31
1.10.1.7 Automatic Storage Management (ASM) File Access Control ............................. 1-32
1.10.1.8 ASMCMD Command Extensions ........................................................................... 1-32
1.10.1.9 Enterprise Manager Support for ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) .................. 1-32
1.10.1.10 Enterprise Manager Integration for ASM File Access Control ........................... 1-33
1.10.2 Database Management..................................................................................................... 1-33
1.10.2.1 EMCA Supports New Oracle RAC Configuration for Enterprise Manager..... 1-33
1.10.2.2 Patch Application with DBControl ......................................................................... 1-33
1.10.2.3 Automatic Patching of Time Stamp With Time Zone Data ................................ 1-33
1.10.2.4 Prevent Data Loss for Time Zone with Local Time Zone Data Type ................ 1-34
1.10.2.5 Segment Creation on Demand................................................................................. 1-34
1.10.2.6 Zero-Size Unusable Indexes and Index Partitions................................................ 1-34
1.10.2.7 Metadata SXML Comparison Tool ......................................................................... 1-34
1.10.2.8 Compare Period Report............................................................................................ 1-34
1.10.2.9 Compare SQL Tuning Sets ....................................................................................... 1-35
1.10.2.10 Enable Sampling for Active Data Guard................................................................ 1-35
1.10.2.11 Exadata Simulation ................................................................................................... 1-35
1.10.2.12 Global Oracle RAC ASH Report + ADDM Backwards Compatibility.............. 1-36
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1.10.2.13 Oracle MTS and Streams Support........................................................................... 1-36
1.10.2.14 Parallel Query + Alt Plan Recording, Export STS Enhancements...................... 1-36
1.10.2.15 Synchronization Controls......................................................................................... 1-37
1.11 Unstructured Data Management........................................................................................... 1-37
1.11.1 Enhanced Oracle Multimedia and DICOM Support................................................... 1-37
1.11.1.1 Attribute Extraction of Requested Attributes Only.............................................. 1-37
1.11.1.2 Client-Side DICOM Attribute Extraction............................................................... 1-37
1.11.1.3 DICOM Enhancements ............................................................................................. 1-37
1.11.1.4 Watermarking and Image Processing Enhancements.......................................... 1-38
1.11.2 Enhanced Oracle Spatial Support................................................................................... 1-38
1.11.2.1 3D Visualization Framework ................................................................................... 1-38
1.11.2.2 Network Data Model Enhancements ..................................................................... 1-39
1.11.2.3 New GeoRaster JAVA API....................................................................................... 1-39
1.11.2.4 Raster Reprojections and Ground Control Point-Based (GCP)
Georeferencing ........................................................................................................... 1-39
1.11.2.5 Routing and Geocoding Enhancements................................................................. 1-40
1.11.3 Oracle SecureFiles............................................................................................................. 1-40
1.11.3.1 Database File System (DBFS) ................................................................................... 1-40
1.11.3.2 Support for Oracle SecureFiles ................................................................................ 1-41
1.11.4 Oracle XML DB Scale and Performance Improvements ............................................. 1-41
1.11.4.1 Binary XML Enhancements...................................................................................... 1-41
1.11.4.2 Oracle XML DB Repository Performance Improvements and Guidelines ....... 1-41
1.11.4.3 XMLIndex Enhancements ........................................................................................ 1-41
1.11.4.4 XMLType Partitioning .............................................................................................. 1-42
2 Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features

2.1 General.......................................................................................................................................... 2-1
2.1.1 General .................................................................................................................................. 2-1
2.1.1.1 Control File Updates Can Be Disabled During NOLOGGING Operations......... 2-1
2.1.1.2 New Package for Configuring Automatic SQL Tuning.......................................... 2-1
2.1.1.3 Enhanced Security for DBMS_SCHEDULER E-Mail Notification ........................ 2-2
2.1.1.4 Enhanced TRUNCATE Functionality........................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1.5 Improvements to Reduce the Occurrences of "Existing State of Packages
Discarded" Errors ......................................................................................................... 2-2
2.1.1.6 Support for In-Place Upgrade of Clients................................................................... 2-2
2.1.1.7 Maintenance Package for Segment Creation on Demand ...................................... 2-3
2.1.1.8 Maximum CPU Utilization Limit............................................................................... 2-3
2.1.1.9 Name Matching ............................................................................................................ 2-3
2.1.1.10 Named Entity Extraction ............................................................................................. 2-3
2.1.1.11 Default Size of First Extent of Any New Segment for a Partitioned Table Has
Changed ......................................................................................................................... 2-4
2.1.1.12 Parallel Statement Queuing ........................................................................................ 2-4
2.1.1.13 PMML Import ............................................................................................................... 2-4
2.1.1.14 Result Set Interface ....................................................................................................... 2-5
2.1.1.15 Segment Creation On Demand for Partitioned Tables ........................................... 2-5
2.1.1.16 Simplification of XML and XQuery Interfaces ......................................................... 2-5
2.1.1.17 SMTP Authentication................................................................................................... 2-6
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2.1.1.18 SMTP Encryption.......................................................................................................... 2-6
2.1.1.19 SPA Support for Active Data Guard Environment ................................................. 2-6
2.1.1.20 The EDITION Attribute of a Database Service ........................................................ 2-6
2.1.1.21 Using Binary XML with SecureFiles as the XMLType Default Storage ............... 2-7
2.1.1.22 JDBC 4.0 SQLXML........................................................................................................ 2-7
2.1.1.23 ID Key LCRs in XStream ............................................................................................. 2-7
2.1.2 ACFS Improvements ........................................................................................................... 2-7
2.1.2.1 ACFS, ADVM and Snapshots on Solaris and AIX................................................... 2-8
2.1.2.2 Oracle ACFS Replication ............................................................................................. 2-8
2.1.2.3 Oracle ACFS Security and Encryption Features ...................................................... 2-8
2.1.2.4 Oracle ACFS Tagging................................................................................................... 2-8
2.1.3 Quality of Service (QoS) Management ............................................................................. 2-9
2.1.3.1 Database QoS Management Server............................................................................ 2-9
2.1.3.2 Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Support ..................................... 2-9
2.1.3.3 Enterprise Manager QoS Management Integration ............................................. 2-10
2.1.3.4 Server Memory Stress Protection for Oracle Clusters.......................................... 2-10
2.1.4 Database Replay................................................................................................................ 2-10
2.1.4.1 Database Replay SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) Integration ....................... 2-10
2.1.4.2 Database Replay Timeout Function........................................................................ 2-11
2.1.4.3 Database Replay Workload Analyzer .................................................................... 2-11
2.1.5 Management ...................................................................................................................... 2-11
2.1.5.1 DBCA Support for Creating an Oracle RAC One Node Database..................... 2-11
2.1.5.2 Option of Downloading Latest Updates During Installation ............................. 2-11
2.1.5.3 Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant Support for Out-of-Place Upgrades ...... 2-12
2.1.5.4 Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant Support for Out-of-Place Upgrades ........ 2-12
2.1.5.5 Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Control Support for Oracle RAC One
Node ............................................................................................................................ 2-12
2.1.5.6 Online Relocation of an Oracle RAC One Node Database.................................. 2-12
2.1.5.7 SRVCTL-Based Management of Oracle RAC One Node Databases.................. 2-13
2.1.5.8 CRSCTL Command Enhancements ........................................................................ 2-13
2.1.5.9 SRVCTL Command Enhancements ........................................................................ 2-13
2.1.5.10 Enhanced XStream Manageability .......................................................................... 2-13
2.1.5.11 Columnar Compression Support in Supplemental Logging and XStream ...... 2-14
2.1.5.12 Standalone Configuration Wizard for Post-Installation Cluster
Configuration ............................................................................................................. 2-14
2.1.5.13 Redundant Interconnect Usage ............................................................................... 2-14
3 Oracle Database 11g Documentation

3.1 Documentation Titles and Online Documentation Structure............................................... 3-1
3.1.1 Oracle® Database 11g Server Documentation ................................................................ 3-2
3.1.2 Oracle® Database 11g Spatial Documentation............................................................. 3-11
3.1.3 Oracle® Database 11g Windows Documentation........................................................ 3-11
3.1.4 Oracle® Database 11g Gateways Documentation ....................................................... 3-12
3.1.5 Oracle® Database 11g Communications Data Model Documentation .................... 3-14
3.1.6 Oracle® Database 11g Java Development Documentation ........................................ 3-15
3.1.7 Oracle® Database 11g Release Notes Documentation ................................................ 3-16
3.1.8 Oracle® Database 11g Data Mining Documentation .................................................. 3-16
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3.1.9 Oracle® Database 11g TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation................. 3-17
3.1.10 Oracle® Database 11g Documentation Library............................................................ 3-18
3.1.11 Oracle® Database 11g Warehouse Builder Documentation....................................... 3-19
3.1.12 Oracle® Database 11g OLAP Documentation.............................................................. 3-20
3.1.13 Oracle® Database 11g Multimedia Documentation.................................................... 3-20
3.1.14 Oracle® Database 11g Installation Guide Documentation......................................... 3-21
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3–1 Oracle® Database Server Documentation.............................................................................. 3-2
3–2 Oracle® Database Spatial Documentation .......................................................................... 3-11
3–3 Oracle® Database Windows Documentation ..................................................................... 3-11
3–4 Oracle® Database Gateways Documentation..................................................................... 3-12
3–5 Oracle® Database Communications Data Model Documentation.................................. 3-14
3–6 Oracle® Database Java Development Documentation...................................................... 3-15
3–7 Oracle® Database Release Notes Documentation ............................................................. 3-16
3–8 Oracle® Database Data Mining Documentation................................................................ 3-16
3–9 Oracle® Database TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation .............................. 3-17
3–10 Oracle® Database Documentation Library ......................................................................... 3-18
3–11 Oracle® Database Warehouse Builder Documentation .................................................... 3-19
3–12 Oracle® Database OLAP Documentation ........................................................................... 3-20
3–13 Oracle® Database Multimedia Documentation ................................................................. 3-20
3–14 Oracle® Database Installation Guide Documentation ...................................................... 3-21
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Preface
This Preface contains these topics:

■ Audience
■ Documentation Accessibility
■ Related Documents
■ Conventions
Audience
Oracle Database New Features Guide is addressed to people familiar with previous
releases of Oracle Database who would like to become familiar with features, options,
and enhancements that are new in this release of the database.
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Related Documents
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2 (11.2) documentation set:
■ Oracle Database Error Messages
■ Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
■ Oracle Database Concepts
■ Oracle Database Reference
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Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1)
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New Features
This chapter contains descriptions of all of the features that are new to Oracle 11g
Database, Release 2. This chapter contains the following sections:
■ Application Development
■ Availability
■ Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
■ Clustering
■ Database Overall
■ Diagnosability
■ Performance
■ Security
■ Server Manageability
■ Unstructured Data Management
1.1 Application Development

The following sections describe the new application development features for Oracle
Database 11g Release 2 (11.2).
1.1.1 Oracle Application Express

The following sections describe Oracle Application Express features.
1.1.1.1 Application Date Format

You can now define a date format to be used throughout an application. This date
format is used to alter the NLS_DATE_FORMAT database session setting prior to
showing or submitting any page within the application. This format is used by all
reports showing dates and is also picked up by form items of type "Date Picker (use
Application Date Format)".
The ability to specify a date format at the application level ensures consistency across
the application. Therefore, whenever dates are displayed or input, they are in the same
format.
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-1

Application Development
1.1.1.2 Custom Themes

In addition to the default themes provided with Oracle Application Express, you can
create your own customized themes. You can either start with one of the twenty
standard themes available with Oracle Application Express and modify the
underlying templates or define your own templates from scratch. Each theme consists
of a set of templates defined with cascading style sheets (CSS) and HTML.
The ability to publish custom themes enables you to design a specific look and feel to
meet your corporate requirements and then publish them as a theme for all other
applications to use.
1.1.1.3 Declarative BLOB Support

Declarative BLOB support enables files to be declaratively uploaded in forms, and
downloaded or displayed using reports. BLOB display and download can also be
authored procedurally using PL/SQL.
The storing of binary large objects (BLOBs) within the database is growing in
popularity due to the many advantages over storing content on disparate file systems.
By incorporating declarative support for managing BLOBs into Application Express,
the loading and manipulating of content is greatly simplified.
1.1.1.4 Documented JavaScript Libraries

This release includes an improved framework for advanced Oracle Application
Express developers to build and leverage custom Web 2.0 capabilities, improving
performance and enabling developers to create more dynamic application widgets.
Oracle Application Express also includes the ability to suppress standard JavaScript
and CSS files. All included JavaScript files are now compressed to improve page load
time.
Many developers want to extend their applications to include additional Web 2.0
capabilities or to minimize the page weight for use on mobile devices such as iphones
and smartphones. The documentation and declarative capabilities allow developers to
design applications for these disparate requirements.
1.1.1.5 Enhanced Report Printing

Release 3.1 includes XML as a download format and supports multiple SQL
statements.
Oracle Application Express interactive reporting provides the ability to manipulate the
way in which the data is displayed on the screen. Users can also download this data in
various formats including PDF, RTF, XLS and now XML.
1.1.1.6 Forms Conversion

Forms Conversion captures the design of existing Oracle Forms and automatically
converts some components, primarily the user interface. Other components, such as
complex triggers, need to be manually converted post-generation.
Moving to native HTML is not seamless and changes to the user interface are required
to deliver optimal Web interactivity.
The Oracle Application Express Forms Conversion enables you to take advantage of
Oracle Application Express dynamic HTML capabilities, including interactive reports.
Given the similarities between Oracle Forms and Oracle Application Express
development (both use SQL and PL/SQL), retraining requirements are also low.
1-2 Oracle Database New Features Guide

1.1.1.7 Improved Security

Oracle Application Express offers a number of security enhancements. Key
enhancements include the ability to declaratively encrypt session state and specify
session time outs for maximum idle time and maximum session duration as well as
create new password item types that enable users to enter passwords without ever
saving them to session state.
Other features include reducing the privileges required by the Oracle Application
Express database account, disabling database monitoring by default, and the ability to
specify HTTPS for administration. In addition, administrators can now restrict
password reuse. This release also includes a new Hidden and Protected item type.
This item type greatly simplifies the developer's task of protecting item session state.
This, together with other minor improvements, makes the default security
functionality more robust within Oracle Application Express.
The additional declarative security capabilities make it easier for developers and
administrators to harden the security of their applications and the development
environment. These new capabilities complement existing Oracle Application Express
security features some of which include flexible authentication, authorization schemes,
and URL tampering protection.
1.1.1.8 Interactive Reporting Region

Interactive Reporting Regions enable end users to customize reports. Users can alter
the layout of report data by choosing the columns they are interested in, applying
filters, highlighting, and sorting. They can also define breaks, aggregations, different
charts, and their own computations. Users can create multiple variations of the report
and save them as named reports and download to various file formats including
comma-delimited file (CSV) format, Microsoft Excel (XLS) format, Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF), and Microsoft Word Rich Text Format (RTF).
Oracle Application Express Interactive Reporting enables developers to quickly
develop reports that can be manipulated by end users to meet a wide range of
reporting requirements. Therefore, instead of developers having to define specific
report layouts for different users or groups, they can define a common report that can
be used to meet the majority of the different requirements.
1.1.1.9 Runtime-Only Installation

For testing and production instances, Oracle Application Express now supports the
ability to install a runtime version of Oracle Application Express. This minimizes the
installed footprint and privileges. Scripts are also provided to remove or add the
developer interface from an existing instance.
The ability to implement a runtime-only environment improves application security as
developers cannot inadvertently or maliciously update a production application.
1.1.2 Other General Development Features

The following sections describe new features in the areas of OCI, Pro*C, JDBC, and
other development APIs.
1.1.2.1 Support WITH HOLD Option for CURSOR DECLARATION in Pro*C

The WITH HOLD option can now be specified during cursor declaration.
This new option provides easy migration of Pro*C applications.

See Also:
Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide for details
1.1.2.2 Pro*C Support for 8-Byte Native Numeric Host Variable for INSERT and
FETCH
Oracle Call Interface (OCI) now provides Pro*C support for 8-byte native numeric host
variable for INSERT and FETCH on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Fusion applications need Pro*C to be able to support 8-byte native data type for
bind/define while inserting or fetching data to and from a NUMBER(18) column.
See Also:
Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide for details
1.1.2.3 Pro*COBOL Support for 8-Byte Native Numeric Host Variable for INSERT
and FETCH
Oracle Call Interface (OCI) now provides Pro*COBOL support for 8-byte native
numeric host variable for INSERT and FETCH on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Fusion applications need Pro*COBOL to be able to support 8-byte native data type for
bind/define while inserting or fetching data to and from a NUMBER(18) column.
1.1.2.4 JDBC Support for Time Zone Patching

The JDBC driver is updated to conform with the new time zone upgrading scheme.
This feature provides a simplified time zone patching process. As a result, Java
applications using the TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data type are immune to
Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes.
1.1.2.5 JDBC Support for SecureFile Zero-Copy LOB I/O and LOB Prefetching
JDBC now supports SecureFile zero-copy LOB I/O and LOB prefetching.
This feature allows performant and secure Java access to structured (relational) and
unstructured data.
See Also:
Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide for details
1.1.2.6 OCI Support for 8-Byte Integer Bind/Define

Oracle Call Interface (OCI) now provides support for 8-byte integer bind/define on
32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Fusion applications need Pro*C or Pro*COBOL to be able to support 8-byte native data
type for bind/define while inserting or fetching data to and from a NUMBER(18)
column. Pro*C or Pro*COBOL need this support from OCI to be able to pass it on to
application developers.
See Also:
Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide for details

Availability
1.2 Availability
The focus of this Availability section is aimed towards providing capabilities that keep
the Oracle database available for continuous data access, despite unplanned failures
and scheduled maintenance activities. These various capabilities form the basis of
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), which is the Oracle blueprint for
implementing a highly available infrastructure using integrated Oracle technologies.
1.2.1 Backup and Recovery

The following sections describe new features in this release that provide
improvements in the area of backup and recovery.
1.2.1.1 Automatic Block Repair

Automatic block repair allows corrupt blocks on the primary database or physical
standby database to be automatically repaired, as soon as they are detected, by
transferring good blocks from the other destination. In addition, RECOVER BLOCK is
enhanced to restore blocks from a physical standby database. The physical standby
database must be in real-time query mode.
This feature reduces time when production data cannot be accessed, due to block
corruption, by automatically repairing the corruptions as soon as they are detected in
real-time using good blocks from a physical standby database. This reduces block
recovery time by using up-to-date good blocks from a real-time, synchronized
physical standby database as opposed to disk or tape backups or flashback logs.
See Also:
Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration for details
1.2.1.2 Backup to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Using OSB Cloud
Computing
Oracle now offers backup to Amazon S3, an internet-based storage service, with the
Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) Cloud Module. This is part of the Oracle Cloud
Computing offering.
This feature provides easy-to-manage, low cost database backup to Web services
storage, reducing or eliminating the cost and time to manage an in-house backup
infrastructure.
See Also:
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Reference for details
1.2.1.3 DUPLICATE Without Connection to Target Database

DUPLICATE can be performed without connecting to a target database. This requires
connecting to a catalog and auxiliary database.
The benefit is improved availability of a DUPLICATE operation by not requiring
connection to a target database. This is particularly useful for DUPLICATE to a
destination database where connection to the target database may not be available at
all times.
See Also:
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide for details

Availability
1.2.1.4 Enhanced Tablespace Point-In-Time Recovery (TSPITR)

Tablespace point-in-time recovery (TSPITR) is enhanced as follows:
■ You now have the ability to recover a dropped tablespace.
■ TSPITR can be repeated multiple times for the same tablespace. Previously, once a
tablespace had been recovered to an earlier point-in-time, it could not be
recovered to another earlier point-in-time.
■ DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK is automatically run to ensure that TSPITR
is successful.
■ AUXNAME is no longer used for recovery set data files.
This feature improves usability with TSPITR.
1.2.1.5 New DUPLICATE Options

The following are new options for the DUPLICATE command:
■ NOREDO
NOREDO indicates that archive logs are not applied. Because targetless
DUPLICATE does not connect to the target database, it cannot check if the
database is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode. It can also be used during regular
duplication to force a database currently in ARCHIVELOG mode to be recovered
without applying archive logs (for example, because it was in NOARCHIVELOG
mode at the point-in-time it is being duplicated).
■ UNDO TABLESPACE <tsname> [ , <tsname> ... ]
When not connected to a recovery catalog and not connected to an open target
database, RMAN cannot obtain the list of tablespaces with undo segments,
therefore, you must specify them with this clause.
This feature improves the usability of the DUPLICATE command.
1.2.1.6 New SET NEWNAME Clauses and Format Options

The following are new clauses and format options for the SET NEWNAME command:
■ A single SET NEWNAME command can be applied to all files in a tablespace, or for
all files in the database. For example:
SET NEWNAME FOR TABLESPACE <tsname> TO <format>;
Or,
SET NEWNAME FOR DATABASE TO <format>;
■ New format identifiers for SET NEWNAME...<format> are as follows:

– %U
Unique identifier. data_D-%d_I-%I_TS-%N_FNO-%f
– %b
UNIX base name of the original data file name. For example, if the original
data file name was ORACLE_HOME/data/tbs_01.f, then %b is tbs_01.f.
The benefit is improved flexibility of RESTORE, DUPLICATE, and TSPITR.
See Also:
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide for details

Availability
1.2.1.7 Tablespace Checks in DUPLICATE

The DUPLICATE...TABLESPACE and DUPLICATE... SKIP TABLESPACE
commands now perform the following initial checks:
■ Excluded tablespaces are checked to see if they contain any objects owned by SYS.
■ DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK is run to ensure that the set of tablespaces
being duplicated are self-contained before the actual duplicate process.
These checks are not possible for a targetless DUPLICATE as they are required to be
run at the target database.
This feature improves usability of DUPLICATE. Any tablespace issues are
immediately identified prior to commencement of the actual duplicate operation.
1.2.2 Online Application Maintenance and Upgrade

The following sections describe online application maintenance and upgrade features.
1.2.2.1 Edition-based Redefinition

Edition-based redefinition allows an application's database objects to be changed
without interrupting the application's availability by making the changes in the
privacy of a new edition. Every database has at least one edition. The DBA creates a
new edition as a child of the existing one. The changes are made in the child edition
while you continue to use the parent edition. When needed, changes to data are made
safely by writing only to new columns or new tables not seen by the old edition.
Editioning views expose a different projection of each changed table into each edition
to allow each to see just its own columns. Crossedition triggers propagate data
changes made by the old edition into the columns of the new edition. When the
installation of the changes is complete, some users start to use the new edition while
others drain off the old edition. Here, crossedition triggers propagate data changes
made by the new edition into the columns of the old edition.
Large, mission critical applications are often unavailable for long periods of time while
database objects are patched or upgraded. Edition-based redefinition allows this cost
to be avoided.
See Also:
Oracle Database Advanced Application Developer's Guide for details
1.2.2.2 Enhance CREATE or REPLACE TYPE to Allow FORCE

The FORCE option can now be used in conjunction with the CREATE or REPLACE
TYPE command.
This feature provides enhanced usability and allows a CREATE or REPLACE TYPE
operation to be performed even when TYPE dependent objects are present. However,
if at least one TABLE dependent is present, then FORCE does not allow CREATE or
REPLACE TYPE to succeed.
See Also:
Oracle Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide for details
1.2.2.3 Fine-Grained Dependencies for Triggers

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) brought both fine-grained dependency tracking
and the new possibility that a trigger might be a dependency parent by virtue of the
new FOLLOWS keyword.

Availability
In release 11.1, dependents on triggers did not have fine-grained dependency. In

release 11.2, this fine-grained dependence exists. (Release 11.2 also provides the new
PRECEDES keyword which also allows trigger-upon-trigger dependencies.)
See Also:
Oracle Database Advanced Application Developer's Guide for details
1.2.2.4 IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_INDEX Hint for INSERT Statement

With INSERT INTO TARGET...SELECT...FROM SOURCE, a unique key for some
to-be-inserted rows may collide with existing rows. The IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_
INDEX allows the collisions to be silently ignored and the non-colliding rows to be
inserted. A PL/SQL program could achieve the same effect by first selecting the source
rows and by then inserting them one-by-one into the target in a block that has a null
handler for the DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX exception. However, the PL/SQL approach
would take effort to program and is much slower than the single SQL statement that
this hint allows.
This hint improves performance and ease-of-programming when implementing an
online application upgrade script using edition-based redefinition.
See Also:
Oracle Database SQL Language Reference for details
1.2.3 Oracle Data Guard

The following sections describe new features in this release that provide
improvements in Oracle Data Guard.
1.2.3.1 Compressed Table Support in Logical Standby Databases and Oracle

LogMiner
Compressed tables (that is, tables with compression that support both OLTP and
direct load operations) are supported in logical standby databases and Oracle
LogMiner.
With support for this additional storage attribute, logical standby databases can now
provide data protection and reporting benefits for a wider range of tables.
See Also:
1.2.3.2 Configurable Real-Time Query Apply Lag Limit

A physical standby database can be open for read-only access while redo apply is
active only if the Oracle Active Data Guard option is enabled. This capability is known
as real-time query.
The new STANDBY_MAX_DATA_DELAY session parameter can be used to specify a
session-specific apply lag tolerance, measured in seconds, for queries issued by
non-administrative users to a physical standby database that is in real-time query
mode.
This capability allows queries to be safely offloaded from the primary database to a
physical standby database, because it is possible to detect if the standby database has
become unacceptably stale.

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
See Also:
1.2.3.3 Integrated Support for Application Failover in a Data Guard Configuration

Applications connected to a primary database can transparently failover to the new
primary database upon an Oracle Data Guard role transition. Integration with Fast
Application Notification (FAN) provides fast failover for integrated clients.
Flexibility and manageability of disaster recovery configurations using Oracle Data
Guard is improved.
See Also:
Oracle Data Guard Broker for details
1.2.3.4 Support Up to 30 Standby Databases

The number of standby databases that a primary database can support is increased
from 9 to 30 in this release.
The capability to create 30 standby databases, combined with the functionality of the
Oracle Active Data Guard option, allows the creation of reader farms that can be used
to offload large scale read-only workloads from a production database.
See Also:
1.3 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

The following sections describe new Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
features for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2).
1.3.1 Improved Analytics

The following sections describe new and improved analytical capabilities in this
release.
1.3.1.1 Analytic Functions 2.0

New and enhanced analytical functions are introduced in this release. A new ordered
aggregate, LISTAGG, concatenates the values of the measure column. The new analytic
window function NTH_VALUE (a generalization of existing FIRST_VALUE and LAST_
VALUE functions) gives users the functionality of retrieving an arbitrary (or nth) record
in a window.
The LAG and LEAD functions are enhanced with the IGNORE NULLS option.
The new and enhanced SQL analytical functions allow more complex analysis in the
database, using (simpler) SQL specification and providing better performance.
See Also:
Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide for details
1.3.1.2 Recursive WITH Clause

The SQL WITH clause has been extended to enable formulation of recursive queries.

Recursive WITH clause complies with the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standard. This makes Oracle ANSI-compatible for recursive queries.
See Also:
1.3.2 Improved Data Loading

The following sections describe new and improved data loading capabilities in this
release.
1.3.2.1 EXECUTE Privilege for DIRECTORY Objects

EXECUTE privilege is allowed for DIRECTORY objects in this release. The ORACLE_
LOADER access driver creates a process that runs a user-specified program. That
program must live in a directory path specified by a directory object defined in the
database. Only a user that has been given EXECUTE access to the directory object is
allowed to run programs in it.
This feature allows the DBA to control who is allowed to run preprocessors as part of
loading data with external tables. It also allows the DBA to restrict which programs
those users can run. No existing users with access to the directory object are allowed to
run any programs from that directory unless the DBA gives them EXECUTE access to
that directory.
See Also:
Oracle Database Utilities for details
1.3.2.2 Preprocessing Data for ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver in External Tables

The syntax for the ORACLE_LOADER access driver is extended in this release to allow
specification of a program to preprocess the data files that are read for the external
table. The access parameters can specify the name of a directory object and the name of
an executable file in that directory object. When the access driver needs to read data
from a file, it creates a process that runs the specified program, passing in the name of
the data file. The output from the program is passed into the access driver which
parses the data into records and columns.
The initial use of this feature is by a customer who needs to load data that is stored in
compressed files. The user specifies the name of the program used to decompress the
file as part of the access parameters. The access driver reads the output of the
decompression program.
Large customers want to load data from compressed files which requires less disk
space and uses the I/O bandwidth between the disk and memory more efficiently.
See Also:
1.3.3 Improved Partitioning

The following sections describe new and improved partitioning capabilities in this
release.

1.3.3.1 Allow Virtual Columns in the Primary Key or Foreign Key for Reference
Partitioning
Virtual columns can be used as the primary or the foreign key column of a reference
partition table.
Allowing the use of virtual columns for reference partitioned tables enables an easier
implementation of various business scenarios using Oracle Partitioning.
1.3.3.2 System-Managed Indexes for List Partitioning

System-managed domain indexes are now supported for list partitioned tables.
This feature provides enhanced completeness of domain-specific indexing support for
partitioning to meet user requirements including Oracle XML DB. Performance of
local domain indexes on list partitioned tables is improved in this release.
See Also:
1.3.4 Improved Performance and Scalability

The following sections describe new and improved performance and scalability
capabilities in this release.
1.3.4.1 In-Memory Parallel Execution

Traditionally, parallel execution has enabled organizations to manage and access large
amounts of data by taking full advantage of the I/O capacity of the system.
In-memory parallel execution harnesses the aggregated memory in a system to
enhance query performance by minimizing or even completely eliminating the
physical I/O needed for a parallel operation. Oracle automatically decides if an object
being accessed using parallel execution benefits from being cached in the SGA (buffer
cache). The decision to cache an object is based on a well defined set of heuristics
including size of the object and the frequency that it is accessed. In an Oracle RAC
environment, Oracle maps fragments of the object into each of the buffer caches on the
active instances. By creating this mapping, Oracle knows which buffer cache to access
to find a specific part or partition of an object to answer a given SQL query.
In-memory parallel query harnesses the aggregated memory in a system for parallel
operations, enabling it to scale out with the available memory for data caching as the
number of nodes in a cluster increases. This new functionality optimizes large parallel
operations by minimizing or even completely eliminating the physical I/O needed
because the parallel operation can now be satisfied in memory.
See Also:
Oracle Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide for details
1.3.4.2 Minimal Effort Parallel Execution - Auto Degree of Parallelism (DOP) and
Queuing
When activated, Oracle determines the optimal degree of parallelism (DOP) for any
given SQL operation based on the size of the objects, the complexity of a statement,
and the existing hardware resources.
The database compensates for wrong or missing user settings for parallel execution,
ensuring a more optimal resource consumption and overall system behavior.

See Also:
1.3.4.3 The DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE Package

The DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE package provides subprograms to allow a specified
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, or anonymous block statement to be applied in
parallel chunks. The statement must have two placeholders that define the start and
end limit of a chunk. Typically, these are values for the rowid or a surrogate unique
key in a large table. But, when an anonymous block is used, the block can interpret the
values arbitrarily. The package has subprograms to define ranges that cover the
specified table. These include rule-based division of a table's rowid or key range and
support user-defined methods. The SQL statement together with the set of chunk
ranges define a task. Another subprogram starts the task. Each task is processed using
a scheduler job and automatically commits when it completes. Progress is logged.
Untried, successful, and failed chunks are flagged as such on task completion or
interruption. Another subprogram allows the task to resume to try untried and failed
chunks.
Many scenarios require the bulk transformation of a large number of rows. Using an
ordinary SQL statement suffers from the all-or-nothing effect. In the common case,
where the transformation of one row is independent of that of other rows, it is correct
to commit every row that is transformed successfully and to roll back every row where
the transformation fails. Some customers have implemented schemes to achieve this
from scratch, using the Oracle Scheduler and suitable methods to record progress. This
package provides a supported solution and adds database-wide manageability
through new catalog views for parallel task metadata. The package is especially useful
in online application upgrade scenarios to apply a crossedition trigger to all the rows
in the table on which it is defined.
See Also:
Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for details
1.3.4.4 Significant Performance Improvement of On-Commit Fast Refresh

Fast refresh of a materialized view is now significantly faster due to reducing the time
spent on log handling.
This provides significantly reduced maintenance time and more fast refreshes are
possible.
See Also:
Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide for details
1.3.5 Oracle Warehouse Builder

The following sections describe improvements to the extraction, transformation, and
loading (ETL) capabilities available with Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB).
1.3.5.1 Advanced Find Support in Mapping Editor

The mapping editor has been enhanced with advanced find capabilities to make it
easier to locate and make updates to operators, groups, and attributes in a mapping
diagram, in the Available Objects tab, and in the Selected Objects tab.

This feature enhances ETL mapping developer productivity, especially on large and
complex mappings and, for example, when working with complex data sources with
large numbers of tables, views, or columns.
See Also:
Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Modeling, ETL, and Data Quality Guide
for details
1.3.5.2 Business Intelligence Tool Integration

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) now offers metadata integration with Oracle
Business Intelligence Standard Edition (Discoverer) as well as Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
For Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE), this feature allows
derivation of ready-to-use physical, business model and presentation layer metadata
from a data warehouse design, visualization and maintenance of the derived objects
from within OWB, and deployment of the derived objects in the form of an RPD file
that can be loaded into OBI EE.
Oracle Discoverer integration was added in a previous release, and includes
derivation of metadata for Discoverer from the data warehouse design, and deploying
those derived objects into Discoverer. In this release, similar capabilities are now
available for OBI Enterprise Edition. All business intelligence application objects are
modeled in OWB and can be included in lineage and impact analysis at the column
level.
Customers using Oracle business intelligence tools with their Oracle data warehouses
can get better answers from their warehouses faster, with no additional design or
development effort.
1.3.5.3 Copy and Paste of Operators and Attributes in Mapping Editor

In the mapping editor, users can now copy and paste operators within a mapping or
across mappings, including attribute settings.
This enhancement saves time and reduces errors in the development of complex ETL
mappings that reuse common or similar elements.
See Also:
for details
1.3.5.4 Current Configuration Dropdown List in Design Center Toolbar

In the Design Center, there is now a dropdown list that displays the active
configuration of the user.
This feature improves usability of the multi-configuration feature.
See Also:
Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation and Administration Guide for
Windows and Linux for details
1.3.5.5 Enhanced Support for Flat File Imports

There are numerous support improvements for importing flat files, including a
simplified Flat File Sampling wizard, support for multi-character and hexadecimal

format delimiters and enclosures, simplified support for fixed format fields, and
support for bulk flat file loads into heterogeneous targets.
Flat files are frequently used for simple and high performance data movement in ETL
applications. These changes improve ETL developer productivity and provide flexible
handling of flat files in more scenarios.
1.3.5.6 Enhanced Table Function Support

OWB now has improved support for table functions, including importing metadata for
existing table functions, an editor for creating table functions from within OWB, and
better support for table functions in mappings.
Improved support simplifies using table functions for much more flexible and
powerful transformations, such as user-defined aggregations and data mining
sampling operators.
1.3.5.7 Experts Available in Editor Menu

It is now possible to add OWB experts to the mapping editor menu.
This feature makes it possible to enhance and extend the functionality of the mapping
editor, improving developer productivity.
1.3.5.8 Expression Editing in Operator Edit Dialog

Expressions associated with operator attributes can now be entered directly into an
Operator Edit Dialog or Expression Editor, rather than requiring that these expressions
be entered into a property in the Property Inspector.
Developers can finish more of their work in one place when creating operators in ETL
mappings, thus improving their productivity.
See Also:
for details
1.3.5.9 Grouping and Spotlighting of Objects in Mapping Editor

In the mapping editor, users can now temporarily or permanently group objects in the
mapping editor so that they are collapsed to a single icon. This hides complexity in
mappings. Users can also spotlight a single operator, which temporarily hides all
objects in the mapping except for those objects that connect directly to the operator.
These features improve productivity for developers working with complex mappings
with large numbers of operators.
See Also:
for details
1.3.5.10 Improved Management of Locations Registered in Multiple Control

Centers
The user interface for managing the registration of locations in control centers has
been reworked to improve usability, especially when working with locations
registered in multiple control centers.
This change improves productivity of OWB administrators responsible for managing
locations across control centers.

See Also:
Oracle Warehouse Builder Sources and Targets Guide for details
1.3.5.11 Improved User Interface for Managing Locations

The user interface for managing OWB locations has been reworked to improve
usability and support access to non-Oracle data sources using newly supported
connectivity methods.
These changes improve Oracle Warehouse Builder administrator and developer
productivity in heterogeneous and Oracle-only environments.
1.3.5.12 Key Lookup Operator Enhancements

Extensive changes have been made to the key lookup operator:
■ More efficient use of screen real estate.
■ Support for non-equality lookups.
■ Dynamic lookups, where the lookup table may be modified during the mapping
execution.
These changes make the lookup operator more powerful in many situations, including
improving Type 2 slowly changing dimension support.
1.3.5.13 Mapping Debugger Enhancements

There are numerous enhancements to the OWB mapping editor, including:
■ Improved support for watch points and enabling and disabling individual break
points.
■ Support for user-defined type columns.
■ Enhanced support for numerous existing operators, such as VARRAY, EXPAND, and
CONSTRUCT.
■ Support for key lookup and table function operators.
■ Support for correlated joins.
■ Improved cleanup of debugger-specific objects.
These enhancements improve productivity for ETL mapping developers, especially
when working with complex mappings where the mapping debugger adds the most
value.
1.3.5.14 New JDeveloper-Style User Interface

The Oracle Warehouse Builder Design Center user interface has been updated to use
the Fusion Client Platform, the same core Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
platform as Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle SQL Developer.
The advantages of this user interface include:
■ More efficient and flexible use of screen real estate.
■ Support for opening multiple editors of the same type, for example, editing
several ETL mappings at once in different windows.
■ More consistent behavior across different parts of the OWB user interface.
This change brings Oracle Warehouse Builder Design Center in line with other
development tools from Oracle. Developers experience increased productivity in the

Oracle Warehouse Builder environment, which now benefits from the usability
research behind the Fusion Client Platform and consistency with other Oracle
products.
See Also:
Oracle Warehouse Builder Sources and Targets Guide for details
1.3.5.15 Operator References Included in Generated PL/SQL Code

PL/SQL code generated for OWB ETL mappings now includes detailed comments to
help developers associate specific operators in a mapping with sections of the
generated code.
Developers can more easily troubleshoot issues with OWB-generated code that can
only be detected when the code is deployed. This additional information enhances
developer productivity.
1.3.5.16 Quick Mapper

In this release, Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) introduces a new spreadsheet-like
dialog for connecting operators in a mapping. This functionality replaces the existing
auto mapping dialog.
This improvement saves developer time and reduces errors when working with
operators with a large number of inputs or outputs.
See Also:
for details
1.3.5.17 Repository Browser Changes

The Repository Browser has been updated to support foldering, expose the new types
of metadata associated with the release 11.2 feature set, and support OC4J 10.3.3.
These changes improve Oracle Warehouse Builder manageability.
1.3.5.18 Simplified Oracle Warehouse Builder Repository Upgrades

The repository upgrade automatically upgrades an Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
repository to the current release with less user intervention.
This feature simplifies the task of upgrading from one release to the next.
1.3.5.19 Support for Extracting Data From Tables Containing LONG Data Type
Oracle Warehouse Builder can now generate SQL*Plus code to extract data from
database schemas supporting the deprecated LONG data type, such as occurs in
PeopleSoft application data sources.
Support for LONG data types used in PeopleSoft data enables OWB users to integrate
more effectively with PeopleSoft data or any other data source that uses the LONG data
type.
1.3.5.20 Support for Subqueries in Join Operator

The join operator in Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) now supports several new
behaviors related to the use of subqueries in joins:
■ Specifying subqueries using EXISTS, NOT EXISTS, IN, and NOT IN.

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■ Specifying outer joins using the input role instead of the + (plus) sign.
■ Generating ANSI SQL syntax for all join types instead of only outer joins.
More flexible handling for join operations improves developer productivity and
makes possible more flexible data transformations.
1.4 Clustering
The following sections describe new clustering features for Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2).
1.4.1 Oracle Real Application Clusters Ease-of-Use

This release of Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) provides many features
to dramatically simplify installation and on-going management of a cluster and Oracle
RAC database, making it easy for the novice to adopt clustering and Oracle RAC and
reap the benefits of this technology.
The following sections describe ease-of-use features for Oracle RAC.
1.4.1.1 Configuration Assistants Support New Oracle RAC Features

Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA), Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA), and
Net Configuration Assistant (NETCA) have been updated to support all of the new
features of this release and provide a best practice implementation.
Configuration Assistants automate the configuration of the environment ensuring the
correct steps are taken. The assistants simplify the implementation of clusters and
clustered databases.
See Also:
Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Linux and UNIX
for details
1.4.1.2 Enhanced Cluster Verification Utility

Additional functionality has been added to the Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) in
regard to checking certain storage types and configurations. Furthermore, it gives
more consideration to user-specific settings.
These enhancements provide easier implementation and configuration of cluster
environments and improved problem diagnostics in a cluster environment.
See Also:
for details
1.4.1.3 Integration of Cluster Verification Utility and Oracle Universal Installer

The Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) is now fully integrated with the installer so that
checks are done automatically for all nodes included in the installation.
This integration improves Oracle RAC manageability and deployment by ensuring
that any problems with cluster setup are detected and corrected prior to installing
Oracle software.

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See Also:
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Linux for details
1.4.1.4 Cluster Time Service

The Cluster Time Service synchronizes the system time on all nodes in the cluster. A
synchronized system time across the cluster is a prerequisite to install and successfully
run an Oracle cluster.
This feature simplifies management, maintenance, and support of an Oracle cluster
and an Oracle RAC environment by providing an out-of-the-box time server. It also
improves the reliability of Oracle RAC environments.
See Also:
Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for details
1.4.1.5 Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) Enhancements

There have been improvements in this release in the way the Oracle Cluster Registry
(OCR) is accessed. These improvements include:
■ Faster relocation of services on node failure.
■ Support for up to 5 copies of the OCR for improved availability of the cluster.
■ Storage of OCR in Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
The tools to manage the OCR have changed to support the new management options.
These enhancements improve performance in Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real
Application Clusters environments and provide easier management of the cluster
through consistent storage management automation
See Also:
1.4.1.6 Grid Plug and Play (GPnP)

Grid Plug and Play (GPnP) eliminates per-node configuration data and the need for
explicit add and delete nodes steps. This allows a system administrator to take a
template system image and run it on a new node with no further configuration. This
removes many manual operations, reduces the opportunity for errors, and encourages
configurations that can be changed easily. Removal of the per-node configuration
makes the nodes easier to replace, because they do not need to contain
individually-managed state.
Grid Plug and Play reduces the cost of installing, configuring, and managing database
nodes by making their per-node state disposable. It allows nodes to be easily replaced
with regenerated state.
See Also:
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for details
1.4.1.7 Oracle Restart

Oracle Restart improves the availability of your single-instance Oracle database.
Oracle Restart automatically restarts the database instance, the Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) instance, the listener, and other components after a hardware or
software failure or whenever your database host computer restarts. Server Control

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(SRVCTL) is the command line interface to manage Oracle processes that are managed
by Oracle Restart on a standalone server.
This feature provides improved reliability and automated management of a
single-instance Oracle database and the management of any process or application
running on the database server.
See Also:
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for details
1.4.1.8 Policy-Based Cluster and Capacity Management

Oracle Clusterware allocates and reassigns capacity based on policies defined by you.
This enables faster resource failover and dynamic capacity assignment using a
policy-based management.
Policy-Based Cluster and Capacity Management allows the efficient allocation of all
kinds of applications in the cluster. Various applications can be hosted on a shared
infrastructure being isolated regarding their resource consumption by policies and,
therefore, behave as if they were deployed in single system environments.
See Also:
1.4.1.9 Improved Clusterware Resource Modeling

In this release, there are now more options for managing all types of applications and
creating dependencies among them using Oracle Clusterware.
Improved Clusterware Resource Modeling enables a granular definition of
dependencies among applications or processes to manage them as one entity.
See Also:
1.4.1.10 Role-Separated Management

Role-separated management for Oracle Clusterware allows certain administrative
tasks to be delegated to different people, representing different roles in the company.
It is based on the idea of a clusterware administrator. The administrator may grant
administrative tasks on a per resource basis. For example, if two databases are placed
into the same cluster, the clusterware administrator can manage both databases in the
cluster. But, the clusterware administrator may decide to grant different
administrative privileges to each DBA responsible for one of those databases.
Role-separated management allows multiple applications and databases to share the
same cluster and hardware resources, but ensures that different administration groups
do not interfere with each other.
See Also:
1.4.1.11 Agent Development Framework

Oracle Clusterware provides an agent framework for managing all kinds of
applications with Oracle Clusterware. Using the agent framework provides optimized
application startup, checking, and stopping based on user-defined scripts.

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Making it easy to protect applications with Oracle Clusterware reduces costs allowing
you to efficiently enable high availability for applications.
See Also:
1.4.1.12 Zero Downtime Patching for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC
The patching of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters can now be
completed without taking the entire cluster down. Patchsets are now installed as
out-of-place upgrades to the Oracle Grid infrastructure for a cluster software (Oracle
Clusterware and Automatic Storage Management) and Oracle Database.
Now you can reduce your unplanned downtime of clustered databases and
applications running in a cluster.
1.4.1.13 Enterprise Manager-Based Clusterware Resource Management

New in this release is an Enterprise Manager graphical user interface (GUI) to manage
various Oracle Clusterware resources with full lifecycle support. In addition to
allowing the creation and configuration of resources within Oracle Clusterware, it also
helps to monitor and manage resources once deployed in the cluster.
Using Oracle Enterprise Manager as a GUI to monitor and manage various Oracle
Clusterware resources eases the daily management in high availability environments.
See Also:
1.4.1.14 Enterprise Manager Provisioning for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real
Application Clusters
Enterprise Manager provisioning introduces procedures to easily scale up or scale
down Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Ease-of-implementation and management for a clustered database environment can be
achieved through utilizing the Enterprise Manager provisioning framework.
See Also:
1.4.1.15 Enterprise Manager Support for Grid Plug and Play

Oracle Enterprise Manager, the graphical user interface (GUI) for managing Oracle
RAC, provides management and monitoring for the Grid Plug and Play environment.
Enterprise Manager is the standard GUI interface for Oracle Database. This integration
provides an easy-to-use interface that customers are familiar with to manage Grid
Plug and Play environments.
See Also:
Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide for details
1.4.1.16 Enterprise Manager Support for Oracle Restart

Enterprise Manager provides support for Oracle Restart and the configuration with
single-instance databases. This is a change in configuration, monitoring, and
administration to enable Oracle Restart.

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Enterprise Manager provides a graphical user interface (GUI) interface to easily

manage Oracle databases. This additional functionality enables you to restart your
Oracle databases.
See Also:
1.4.1.17 Configuration Assistant Support for Removing Oracle RAC Installations

Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA), Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA), and
Net Configuration Assistant (NETCA) have been updated to support the complete
deinstallation and deconfiguration of Oracle RAC databases and listeners.
This support improves the manageability of an Oracle RAC environment through
automation of deinstallation and deconfiguration of Oracle RAC databases.
See Also:
for details
1.4.1.18 Oracle Universal Installer Support for Removing Oracle RAC Installations
The installer can clean up a failed Oracle Clusterware installation or upgrade of an
environment prior to reattempting the operation. This ensures that the reattempted
operation is done over a clean environment, thereby eliminating the chances of errors
related to environmental inconsistencies.
Easily cleaning up an environment provides improved Oracle RAC manageability and
deployment.
See Also:
1.4.1.19 Improved Deinstallation Support With Oracle Universal Installer

The installation of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC now have recovery points. If a
failure occurs during installation, you can rollback to the closest recovery point and
restart the installation once the problem has been corrected.
Installation rollback and recovery make the installation and configuration of Oracle
Clusterware and Oracle RAC easier. It reduces project time lines by making it easy to
recover from installation failures.
See Also:
for details
1.4.1.20 Downgrading Database Configured With DBControl

Scripts are included to support DBControl downgrade as part of database downgrade.
If an upgrade is deemed unsuccessful, the system needs to be returned to the starting
release. In order to maintain the reliability of management when modifying software
releases, DBControl must be at the same release as the database that it is monitoring.
See Also:
Oracle Database Upgrade Guide for details

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1.4.1.21 Oracle Restart Integration with Oracle Universal Installer

Oracle Restart requires a separate installation from Oracle Database. This installation
is the Oracle Grid infrastructure for a cluster installation for standalone servers which
includes Oracle Restart and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). This
allows separation of roles such that the system administrator can manage the
infrastructure and the database administrator can manage the database.
Oracle Universal Installer is the tool to install Oracle software. This improves the
manageability of the Oracle environment on a standalone server allowing separation
of roles and improved resiliency of the Oracle software.
1.4.1.22 Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade

A new version of Oracle Clusterware is now installed into a separate home from the
current installation. This reduces the downtime required to upgrade a node in the
cluster and facilitate the provisioning of clusters within an enterprise.
The benefit is a reduction in planned outage time required for cluster upgrades which
assists in meeting availability service levels. This also makes it easier to provide a
standard installation across the enterprise.
See Also:
1.4.1.23 OUI Support for Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade

You can now perform out-of-place upgrade of Oracle Clusterware software. The new
version can be installed in a separate directory and pointed to during deployment.
Out-of-place upgrades provide easier Oracle RAC and grid deployment and
manageability, as well as better testing for controlled application migration.
See Also:
1.4.1.24 Server Control (SRVCTL) Enhancements

The server control (SRVCTL) commands have been enhanced to manage the
configuration in a standalone server with Oracle Restart as well as the new style of
cluster management (Policy-Based Cluster and Capacity Management).
This feature provides easier management of Oracle Database through a consistent
interface which can be used from the console or scripted.
See Also:
1.4.1.25 Server Control (SRVCTL) Enhancements to Support Grid Plug and Play
The command-line interface (CLI) for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application
Clusters has been updated to support the new features of this release.
The CLI provides the ability to manage the cluster using a command line from a single
point in the cluster and allows you to manage the cluster as a single entity. This
reduces the management complexity for clusters and clustered databases. All changes
to the cluster must be reflected in the management tool.

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See Also:
Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
for details
1.4.1.26 SRVCTL Support for Single-Instance Database in a Cluster

Using SRVCTL, you can register a single-instance database to be managed by Oracle
Clusterware. Once registered, Oracle Clusterware starts, stops, monitors, and restarts
the database instance.
This feature provides an improved management interface which makes it easy to
provide higher availability for single-instance databases that are running on a server
that is part of a cluster.
See Also:
1.4.1.27 Universal Connection Pool (UCP) Integration with Oracle Data Guard
In this release, Java applications that use the Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP)
for Java now have fast connection failover when the primary site fails. When Data
Guard fails over or switches over to the standby database site, the connection pool
cleans up connections to the primary site, terminates active transactions, and creates
connections to the standby database.
This feature provides increased availability for Java applications using UCP with
Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard. Applications can easily mask failures to the end
user.
1.4.1.28 UCP Integration With Oracle Real Application Clusters

Universal Connection Pool (UCP) is the new Java connection pool. It has many
features that make it easy for Java applications to manage connections to an Oracle
Real Application Clusters database such as Web Session Affinity, XA Affinity,
Runtime Connection Load Balancing, and Fast Connection Failover.
This feature provides a robust connection pool for Java applications with improved
throughput and fast failover in an Oracle Real Application Clusters environment.
1.4.1.29 Universal Connection Pool (UCP) for JDBC

Universal Connection Pool for JDBC supersedes Implicit Connection Cache and
provides the following functions:
■ Connection labeling, connection harvesting, logging, and statistics
■ Performance and stabilization enhancements
■ Improved diagnostics and statistics or metrics
UCP for JDBC provides advanced connection pooling functions, improved
performance, and better diagnosability of connection issues.
See Also:
Oracle Universal Connection Pool for JDBC Developer's Guide for
details

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1.4.1.30 Java API for Oracle RAC FAN High Availability Events
A new Java API allows Oracle RAC customers who are not using an Oracle connection
pool to receive Fast Application Notification (FAN) events (for example, DOWN and UP)
and then process these events, clean up or add connections when an instance, service
or node leaves or joins the cluster.
Applications using this API can be notified quickly when a failure occurs in the
cluster.
See Also:
for details
1.5 Database Overall

The following sections describe new database features for Oracle Database 11g Release
2 (11.2).
1.5.1 General
The following sections provide new feature information for Flashback Data Archive
and instance caging.
1.5.1.1 Flashback Data Archive Support for DDLs

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) users can now use most DDL commands on tables
that are being tracked with Flashback Data Archive. This includes:
■ Add, Drop, Rename, Modify Column
■ Drop, Truncate Partition
■ Rename, Truncate Table
■ Add, Drop, Rename, Modify Constraint
For more complex DDL (for example, upgrades and split table), the Disassociate and
Associate PL/SQL procedures can be used to temporarily disable Total Recall on
specified tables. The Associate procedure enforces schema integrity after association;
the base table and history table schemas must be the same.
This feature makes it much easier to use the Total Recall option with complex
applications that require the ability to modify the schema.
1.5.1.2 Instance Caging

Instance Caging allows the DBA to limit the CPU usage of an Oracle instance by
setting the CPU_COUNT initialization parameter and enabling CPU resource
management.
With Instance Caging, users can partition CPU resources among multiple instances
running on a server to ensure predictable performance.
See Also:
1.5.2 Improvements to Oracle Scheduler

The following sections detail improvements made to Oracle Scheduler.

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1.5.2.1 E-mail Notification

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) users can now get e-mail notifications on any job
activity.
This feature improves efficiency by enabling users to be notified of any job activity
that is of interest to them without having to constantly monitor the job.
See Also:
1.5.2.2 File Watcher

File watcher enables jobs to be triggered when a file arrives on a given machine.
This feature improves efficiency and ease-of-use. Jobs with file dependencies are
automatically triggered when the specified file is received instead of constantly
monitoring for the file.
See Also:
1.5.2.3 Multiple Destination Jobs

This feature enables users to specify multiple destinations for a job.
This is a key feature for Enterprise Manager scheduling. It improves efficiency and
ease-of-use by enabling a job to be run on multiple nodes while managing it as one
entity from a central location.
See Also:
1.5.2.4 Remote Database Jobs

This feature enables users to run PL/SQL blocks or stored procedures that reside in a
remote database as a job.
This is a key feature for Enterprise Manager scheduling. It improves efficiency and
ease-of-use by enabling job scheduling in a distributed environment to be managed
centrally.
See Also:
1.5.3 Improvements to Utilities

The following features provide improvements to the various utilities in Oracle
1.5.3.1 Data Pump Legacy Mode

Data Pump Legacy Mode provides backward compatibility for scripts and parameter
files used for original Export and Import scripts.
This feature enables users to continue using original Export and Import scripts with
Data Pump Export and Import. Development time is reduced as new scripts do not
have to be created.

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See Also:
1.5.4 IPv6 Support

The following sections describe improvements in IPv6 networking support.
1.5.4.1 Complete IPv6 Support for JDBC Thin Clients

JDBC supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) style addresses in the JDBC URL and
machine names that resolve to IPv6 addresses. For example:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001
1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A
A JDBC URL would look like the following:

jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)
(HOST=[2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001]) (PORT=5521))
(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=boston.us.example.com)))
This feature provides Java interoperability with IPv6.
1.5.4.2 Complete IPv6 Support for JVM and Java Debuggers

IPv6 now provides support for the database resident Java virtual machine.
This allows Java applications running in the database to connect to and accept
connections from both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts.
See Also:
Oracle Database Java Developer's Guide for details
1.6 Diagnosability
The following sections describe diagnosability features for Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2).
1.6.1 Support Workbench

Enterprise Manager Support Workbench is a GUI workbench for customers and
support to ease diagnosis and resolution of database errors.
1.6.1.1 Enterprise Manager Support Workbench for ASM

Enterprise Manager Support Workbench (Support Workbench) has been enhanced to
help diagnose and package incidents to Oracle support for Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) databases.
This feature extends the benefit of Enterprise Manager Support Workbench to ASM by
helping customers package all necessary diagnostic data for incidents.
See Also:
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide for
details

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1.7 Information Integration

This is area 2581
The following sections describe new information integration features for Oracle
1.7.1 Oracle Database XStream

The following section describes the new Oracle Database XStream feature.
1.7.1.1 XStream
XStream provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable client
applications to receive data changes from an Oracle database and to send data changes
to an Oracle database. These data changes can be shared between Oracle databases
and other systems. The other systems include non-Oracle databases, non-RDBMS
Oracle products, file systems, third party software applications, and so on. The client
application is designed by the user for specific purposes and use cases.
XStream consists of two components: XStream Out and XStream In. XStream Out
provides APIs that enable you to share data changes made to an Oracle database with
other systems. XStream In provides APIs that enable you to share data changes made
to other systems with Oracle databases.
See Also:
Oracle Database XStream Guide for details
1.8 Performance
The following sections describe improvements in performance of the database and
functionality of performance-related database features.
1.8.1 General Server Performance

The following sections describe general server performance enhancements.
1.8.1.1 Database Smart Flash Cache

New in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), the Database Smart Flash Cache feature
is a transparent extension of the database buffer cache using solid state device (SSD)
technology. The SSD acts as a Level 2 cache to the (Level 1) SGA.
Database Smart Flash Cache can greatly improve the performance of Oracle databases
by reducing the amount of disk I/O at a much lower cost than adding an equivalent
amount of RAM.
1.8.1.2 Stored Outlines Migration to SQL Plan Management

Stored outlines can be migrated for future and enhanced usage with SQL Plan
Management (SPM).
Stored outlines lack the flexibility and adaptability of SQL Plan Management. By
providing a migration path, old applications using stored outlines can be
transparently migrated and can instantaneously take advantage of the enhanced
functionality of SPM.

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See Also:
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide for details
1.8.1.3 Client Result Cache Using Table Annotations Support

Table annotations support provides the ability to annotate a table as being cache
worthy, which enables applications to leverage client and server result caching
through deployment time knobs as opposed to making application changes. In
addition, this feature provides automatic client cache invalidation.
This feature allows non-intrusive application performance acceleration using client
and server result caches.
See Also:
1.8.1.4 Support 4 KB Sector Disk Drives

Today, disk drives have 512 byte sectors. Disk drive manufacturers are moving to 4 KB
sector drives because it allows them to offer higher capacity with lower overhead. If
customers use 4 KB sector drives as 512 byte sector drives, then there is likely to be a
performance penalty (because they have to run in 512 byte emulation mode). This
feature allows Oracle to work with 4 KB (and 512 byte) sector drives without a
performance penalty. There is also the capability in Automatic Storage Management
(ASM) to allow migration of a disk group from 512 byte sector drives to 4 KB sector
drives.
This feature allows customers to take full advantage of new generation, higher
capacity disk drives.
See Also:
1.9 Security
The new features discussed in the following section cover areas that include
encryption and auditing. Significant new encryption key management functionality
has been introduced in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 to enable complete integration
with Hardware Security Modules and increased performance for Transparent Data
Encryption. Audit Management has been simplified through the introduction of a new
package for managing audit data on the Oracle database.
1.9.1 Audit Data Management

Simplify the management of audit data created by the Oracle Database to facilitate
compliance with various privacy and compliance mandates such as SOX, HIPAA, and
PCI.
1.9.1.1 Audit Trail Cleanup

Audit Trail Cleanup provides the ability to manage the Oracle database audit trail by:
■ Automating the periodic deletion of audit records from the database tables and
operating system files after they have been securely backed up or are no longer
needed.

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■ Controlling the size and age of the audit trail written to operating system files
before a new operating system audit trail file is created.
■ Moving the database audit trail tables out of the SYSTEM tablespace to a different
tablespace.
Audit Trail Cleanup reduces the time and cost required to manage the Oracle database
audit content. It enables you to dedicate an optimized tablespace for audit records and
move the audit tables out of the SYSTEM tablespace for improved performance. In
addition, it provides automated deletion of audit records from the database tables and
operating system files.
1.9.2 Encryption Key Management

Encryption key management provides the ability to change the master key associated
with transparent data encryption (TDE) encrypted tablespaces. The tablespace master
key is used to encrypt the encryption keys associated with individual tablespaces. This
is commonly referred to as a 2-tier key architecture. Prior to Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2), changing the master key was only possible when using TDE column
encryption.
1.9.2.1 Tablespace Master Key Rekey

In Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), Oracle Advanced Security capability allows
customers to change the master key used to protect the encryption keys used to
encrypt Oracle tablespaces.
Industry initiatives, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
DSS), mandate periodic rotation of encryption keys associated with credit card data.
This support is now available in this release.
See Also:
Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide for details
1.10 Server Manageability

The following sections describe server manageability features for Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2).
1.10.1 Automatic Storage Management for All Data

These features extend the capabilities of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to
support all types of data including database files, clusterware files, and file system
data such as Oracle homes and binaries.
The following sections describe ASM features.
1.10.1.1 ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)

The ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) extends Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
by providing a robust, modern, general purpose file system for files beyond the Oracle
database files. ACFS provides support for files such as Oracle binaries, report files,
trace files, alert logs, and other application data files. With the addition of the Oracle
ASM Cluster File System, ASM becomes a complete storage management solution for
both Oracle database and non-database files.
ACFS supports large files with 64-bit file and file system data structure sizes leading to
exabyte-capable file and file system capacities. ACFS scales to hundreds of nodes and

uses extent-based storage allocation for improved performance. A log-based metadata

transaction engine is used for file system integrity and fast recovery. The ACFS
on-disk structure supports endian neutral metadata. ACFS file systems can be
exported to remote clients through industry standard protocols such as NFS and CIFS.
Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) complements and leverages Automatic
Storage Management (ASM) and provides a general purpose journaling file system for
storing and managing non-Oracle database files. This eliminates the need for
expensive third-party cluster file system solutions while streamlining, automating and
simplifying all file type management in a single node as well as Oracle RAC and
Oracle Grid infrastructure for a cluster computing environments.
ACFS supports dynamic file system expansion and contraction without any
downtime. ACFS is highly available leveraging the ASM mirroring and striping
features in addition to hardware Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
functionality.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.2 ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (DVM)

The ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (DVM) is a kernel-loadable device driver that
provides a standard device driver interface to clients (for example, ACFS). File systems
or other processes can do I/O to this device driver as they would to any other disk
device driver on the system. DVM is the primary I/O interface for ACFS to perform
I/O and build a file system leveraging ASM as a volume manager. DVM is loaded on
ASM start up. The device driver is cluster-aware and communicates with ASM for
extent map information, extent rebalancing, and I/O failures.
The ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (DVM) provides a standard I/O interface
allowing general purpose file systems to leverage the full functionality of ASM as a
volume manager. Oracle database files as well as non-Oracle database files, for
example Oracle binaries, can now reside on ACFS eliminating the need for third-party
file systems or volume managers to host general purpose files.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.3 ASM FS Snapshot

ASM FS Snapshot is a point-in-time copy of a file system and can provide up to 64
snapshot images. ASM FS Snapshot performs fast creation of persistent ASM FS
images at a specific point-in-time with low overhead leveraging the Copy on Write
technology.
Read-only ASM FS Snapshots can be generated on an interval basis. They may reside
in existing ASM FS storage or in an additional storage device and persist following a
system restart.
Even as the file system changes, the snapshot does not, giving you the ability to view
the file system as it was at the time the snapshot was created. Initially, snapshots are
read-only, which preserves their point-in-time capture. The following are the benefits
of ASM FS Snapshots:

■ ASM FS Snapshots can be used as a source for backup. The original file system can
continue to change but the static nature of the snapshot makes them ideal as a
source for backup without keeping the original file system offline.
■ ASM FS Snapshots can be used as a means for you to recover accidentally deleted
or modified files.
■ ASM FS Snapshots can be used as a source for data mining or report applications
which need to work on a static, point-in-time data set.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.4 Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk on ASM

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) disks are used to store the Oracle Cluster
Registry (OCR) and the voting disks. ASM Partnership and Status Table (PST) is
replicated on multiple disks and is extended to store the OCR. Consequently, the OCR
tolerates loss of the same number of disks as the underlying disk group. OCR is
relocated in response to disk failures.
ASM reserves a number of blocks at a fixed location of every ASM disk for storing the
voting disk. Should the disk holding the voting disk fail, ASM selects another disk to
store this data.
Storing the OCR and the voting disk on ASM eliminates the need to use expensive
third-party cluster volume managers or deal with the complexity of managing disk
partitions for OCR and voting disks in Oracle RAC configurations.
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1.10.1.5 ASM Intelligent Data Placement

Disk drives have higher transfer rates and bytes per track on the outer tracks. This
makes it preferable to keep the hotter data closer to the edge of the disk; that is, the
lower numbered blocks. This feature enables ASM to identify higher performance disk
regions. Most frequently accessed ASM files can be marked to be moved into the hot
region and take advantage of higher I/O performance (for example, hot tablespaces
and indices) and able to better meet the application I/O demand. This feature is only
applicable when whole physical disks are presented to ASM versus local unit numbers
(LUN).
Most frequently accessed Oracle database files in ASM disk groups (ASM files) can be
placed in hot disk regions to deliver higher bandwidth and reduce seek latency to
meet the application I/O performance requirements.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.6 ASM Storage Management Configuration Assistant

ASM Storage Management Configuration Assistant was previously known as
Enterprise Manager Integration with ASM Optimal Disk Placement.

This release now allows the configuration, monitoring, and management of Optimal
Disk Placement with Enterprise Manager which is the graphical user interface (GUI)
for management.
This GUI manages ASM which makes storage management easier in an Oracle
environment.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.7 Automatic Storage Management (ASM) File Access Control

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on UNIX platforms implements access control
on its files to isolate different database instances from each other and prevent
unauthorized access. ASM implements new SQL statements to grant, modify, and
deny file permissions. The new security model and syntax is coherent with those
already implemented for the objects represented in Oracle Database.
Multiple database instances can store ASM files in the same disk group and, therefore,
are able to consolidate multiple databases with security. This prevents unauthorized
database instances from accessing or overwriting each other's files.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.8 ASMCMD Command Extensions

The ASMCMD tool is extended to include management of ASM disks, disk groups,
and ASM instance in addition to managing ASM files. This is a comprehensive
command-line interface that parallels the SQL*Plus command functionality and
provides an easy user interface for the system and storage administrators to manage
ASM.
The ASMCMD extensions provide the system and storage administrators with a
comprehensive and user friendly command-line interface to manage ASM from all
perspectives.
See Also:
details
1.10.1.9 Enterprise Manager Support for ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage the
ASM Dynamic Volume Manager and ASM cluster file system (ACFS) as part of the
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) solution.
Enterprise Manager provides a graphical user interface which makes is easier to
manage the environment whether it is a standalone server or a cluster deployment of
ASM. The centralized console provides a consistent interface for managing volumes,
database files, and file systems as well as the Oracle Database.
See Also:
details

1.10.1.10 Enterprise Manager Integration for ASM File Access Control

In this release, Oracle provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing File
Access Control for Automatic Storage Management (ASM) files.
This GUI simplifies management of ASM for the DBA, system administrator, or
storage administrator.
See Also:
details
1.10.2 Database Management

The following sections describe general database management features to ease
database management.
1.10.2.1 EMCA Supports New Oracle RAC Configuration for Enterprise Manager
Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant (EMCA) has been updated to support the
new configuration required for Enterprise Manager to support new features of the
release.
Configuration assistants automate the configuration of the environment ensuring the
correct steps are taken. The assistants simplify the configuration of Enterprise
Manager in clusters and clustered database settings.
See Also:
Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Plug-In chapter for details
1.10.2.2 Patch Application with DBControl

Enterprise Manager DBControl manages the application of patches to a single-instance
database.
Using Enterprise Manager to apply patches simplifies software maintenance.
See Also:
Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide for details
1.10.2.3 Automatic Patching of Time Stamp With Time Zone Data

Time stamp with time zone data could become stale in the database tables when the
time zone version file is updated. Today, users have to manually fix the affected data.
This feature updates the system and user data transparently with minimal downtime
and provides automatic and transparent patching of time stamp with time zone data
whenever a time zone file is updated.
Also, when a server time zone version is patched, all of the clients that communicate
with the server need to be patched as well. With this feature, OCI, JDBC, Pro*C, and
SQL*Plus clients can now continue to work with the server without having to update
their client-side files.
This new feature provides automatic and transparent patching of time stamp with
time zone data whenever a time zone file is updated.
See Also:
Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for details

1.10.2.4 Prevent Data Loss for Time Zone with Local Time Zone Data Type
This feature makes TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data type immune to Daylight
Saving Time (DST) changes and reduces the overhead of patching time zone data file
and upgrading data on disk.
The benefit of this feature is the elimination of the processing cost and the complexity
of maintaining TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data type whenever there are new
changes to DST transition rule and time zones.
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1.10.2.5 Segment Creation on Demand

The initial segment creation for nonpartitioned tables and indexes can be delayed until
data is first inserted into an object.
Several prepackaged applications are delivered with large schemas containing many
tables and indexes. Depending on the module usage, only a subset of these objects are
really being used. With delayed segment creation, empty database objects do not
consume any space, reducing the installation footprint and speeding up the
installation.
See Also:
1.10.2.6 Zero-Size Unusable Indexes and Index Partitions

Unusable indexes and index partitions no longer consume space in the database
because they become segmentless.
Unusable indexes and index segments are not usable for any data access. Any space
allocated by this unusable (dead) object is freed as soon as an object is marked
unusable.
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1.10.2.7 Metadata SXML Comparison Tool

The Metadata API has been enhanced to provide a cross database comparison tool to
compare object metadata of the same type from different databases. This comparison
depends on an alternate XML representation, called SXML. Full XML is typically
complex and opaque. In contrast, SXML is somewhat simplified and more closely
maps to the SQL creation DDL. These SXML documents provide the building blocks
for the new comparison tool in which two SXML documents of the same type can be
compared and a new SXML document is produced which describes their differences.
This feature enables users to compare objects between databases to identify drift (that
is, metadata changes over time) in objects of the same type.
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1.10.2.8 Compare Period Report

A Replay Compare Period Report performs a high-level comparison of workload
replay to its capture or to another replay of the same capture. The Replay Compare

Period report contains a summary of the most important changes between the two
runs in terms of performance, errors and data divergence. This makes it easier for
Database Replay users to understand and test the impact of system changes.
Replay Compare Period Report simplifies understanding and assessment of the
impact of system change in testing by providing summarized information on how the
replay performed versus capture or other replays in terms of performance, errors and
divergence.
See Also:
Oracle Database Real Application Testing User's Guide for details
1.10.2.9 Compare SQL Tuning Sets

Compare SQL Tuning Set feature of the SQL Performance Analyzer allows:
■ Building a trial from SQL Tuning Set (STS).
■ Comparison of two such trials built from two different STSs. A detailed
comparison report including any new or missing SQL statements in one and not in
another trial and any plan changes noticed in the compared trials is compiled.
Compare SQL Tuning Sets makes it possible for Database Replay users to perform
SQL-centric analysis through the SQL Performance Analyzer report. The two STSs are
captured as follows:
■ One during workload capture on production.
■ And, the other during replay on the test system.
Then, the two STSs are used to generate the SPA report.
Compare STS feature can also be used in non-Database Replay scenarios where
customers already have existing test scripts and can capture the SQL into two STSs;
one for before system change and one for after.
Compare SQL Tuning Sets feature simplifies assessment of system changes by
providing detailed SQL-centric analysis when using Database Replay or other load
testing mechanisms.
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1.10.2.10 Enable Sampling for Active Data Guard

Active Session History (ASH) is now available on standby systems.
Having ASH data available on standby systems for Data Guard environments allows
customers to troubleshoot performance problems specific to their standby
environments.
See Also:
Oracle Database High Availability Overview for details
1.10.2.11 Exadata Simulation

For a given workload, you can now simulate the possible benefits in I/O interconnect
throughput that can be obtained from migration to Exadata architecture. SQL
Performance Analyzer, a feature of Oracle Real Application Testing, allows simulation
to be performed on a non-Exadata installation without needing to provision the

Exadata system. The SQL Performance Analyzer Exadata simulation feature can be
used to identify workloads that are good candidates for Exadata migration.
This feature simplifies simulation and testing of workloads for Exadata migration
system change without requiring provisioning of Exadata hardware.
See Also:
1.10.2.12 Global Oracle RAC ASH Report + ADDM Backwards Compatibility

The Active Session History (ASH) report now includes cluster-wide information,
greatly enhancing it's utility in identifying and troubleshooting performance issues
that span nodes for a cluster database.
Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) has been enhanced to be backward
compatible allowing it to analyze archived data, or data preserved through database
upgrades, allowing a customer to do performance comparisons over a longer time
frame.
See Also:
1.10.2.13 Oracle MTS and Streams Support

Database Replay supports capture and replay of workloads on shared server and
Oracle Streams architecture.
Customers using shared server and Oracle Streams architecture can benefit from
Database Replay testing and have the ability to adopt technology faster.
See Also:
1.10.2.14 Parallel Query + Alt Plan Recording, Export STS Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements to SQL Tuning Advisor:
■ SQL Tuning Advisor may recommend accepting a profile that uses the Automatic
Degree of Parallelism (Auto DOP) feature. A parallel query profile is only
recommended when the original plan is serial and when parallel execution can
significantly reduce the elapsed time for a long-running query.
■ While tuning a SQL statement, SQL Tuning Advisor searches real-time and
historical performance data for alternative execution plans for the statement. If
plans other than the original plan exist, then SQL Tuning Advisor reports an
alternative plan finding.
■ You can transport a SQL tuning set to any database created in Oracle Database 10g
(Release 2) or later. This technique is useful when using SQL Performance
Analyzer to tune regressions on a test database.
These features are introduced to enhance the capabilities of the SQL Tuning Advisor.
The newest version can recommend alternative plans that were seen at some time in
the past, in case they perform better, as well as recommending queries to run in
parallel if that is beneficial for the total runtime of each query.
The STS export to old releases is designed to help customers with upgrades so that
they are using the most recent version of the database software.

Unstructured Data Management
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1.10.2.15 Synchronization Controls

Synchronization controls have been enhanced to allow more concurrency, filtering,
and scale-up during replay.
This gives you the ability to replay workload more realistically to identify the impact
of system change and provide flexibility during replay.
See Also:
1.11 Unstructured Data Management

The new features in the following sections describe the significant performance,
developer productivity and advanced capabilities in Oracle Multimedia, Oracle
Spatial, Oracle Database SecureFiles, and XML Database.
1.11.1 Enhanced Oracle Multimedia and DICOM Support

The following sections describe the new features and capabilities for Oracle
Multimedia and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM).
1.11.1.1 Attribute Extraction of Requested Attributes Only

Oracle Multimedia now allows extraction of a subset of DICOM metadata attributes as
requested by a user or an application, without first extracting all DICOM attributes
from the DICOM content.
DICOM content can contain hundreds of metadata attributes. Often only a few
attributes are required for indexing, searching and partitioning. Extraction of a subset
eliminates the previous requirement of extracting all attributes thus improving
performance.
See Also:
Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide for details
1.11.1.2 Client-Side DICOM Attribute Extraction

Oracle Multimedia now allows DICOM metadata extraction to be performed outside
the database by a client tool or in the middle-tier.
This enables extraction of DICOM metadata before the data is loaded into the
database, facilitating metadata-based partitioning of DICOM data in the database.
See Also:
1.11.1.3 DICOM Enhancements

The following enhancements have been added to Oracle Multimedia:
■ Metadata extraction
Any portion of a DICOM attribute can now be extracted (for example, extraction
of the last name portion of the patient name attribute).

■ Constraint definitions
Validation of recursive structures such as DICOM Structured Reports can now be
specified, and new FOR EACH syntax has been added to allow iteration through
all the components in a single predicate.
■ DICOM content processing:
– DEFLATE transfer syntax support has been added.
– RLE compression is now supported.
– Encoding of multi-bit monochrome images is now supported.
– YBR photometric interpretation is now supported.
– DICOM to AVI and DICOM to MPEG conversions are now supported.
– MPEG encapsulated into DICOM format is now supported.
These new features allow more complete and powerful operations on DICOM data
that include:
■ Flexible extraction of metadata from DICOM data.
■ Support for DICOM Structured Reports.
■ Presentation of DICOM videos in any browser, without requiring specific DICOM
support in the browser.
See Also:
1.11.1.4 Watermarking and Image Processing Enhancements

Oracle Multimedia now includes a new applyWatermark method to add an image or
text watermark to any supported image. It also supports new image processing
operators to remove metadata when creating thumbnail images and to sharpen image
quality.
Watermarking is commonly used to prevent misuse of copyrighted or trademarked
images. With this feature, watermarking may be enforced by the database. Removing
metadata when creating thumbnail images allows for the production of the smallest
possible thumbnail images.
See Also:
Oracle Multimedia Reference for details
1.11.2 Enhanced Oracle Spatial Support

The following sections describe new features in Oracle Spatial support for 3D,
geocoder, routing engine, GeoRaster, and network data model.
1.11.2.1 3D Visualization Framework

This release includes a set of metadata tables to describe themes, scenes, textures,
viewpoints, light sources, non-geographic data, and other elements used to visualize
three-dimensional (3D) content. It also delivers a number of performance
improvements to the 3D analysis operations.
This metadata support for 3D content enables a consistent way to combine all 3D,
raster, vector, and non-geometric data into a unified visualization framework.

Information may be logically grouped into themes to simplify the development,

analysis, use, and maintenance of 3D applications.
See Also:
Oracle Spatial Developer's Guide for details
1.11.2.2 Network Data Model Enhancements

Oracle Spatial network data model (NDM) delivers numerous enhancements. These
include a 30-50% more memory-efficient representation of user attribute data
associated with the network, many additional highly requested path and subpath
analysis functions such as traveling sales person (TSP), hierarchical shortest path
(HSP), and K-shortest path (KSP).
This release also allows the logical partitioning of networks based on metrics
appropriate to the application. For analysis of data associated with the network, NDM
has added a network buffer feature to derive the zone of influence with coverage and
cost information and a "minimum cost polygon" to allow for the association of
geographic points of interest or coverages with a network defined region.
These enhancements allow NDM to support more completely a wider range of
requirements found in utility networks, logistics and other applications dependent
upon network-based analysis.
See Also:
Oracle Spatial Topology and Network Data Models Developer's Guide for
details
1.11.2.3 New GeoRaster JAVA API

With Oracle Spatial, there is a new Java application programming interface (API) to all
functions currently available in the existing PL/SQL interface. These include support
for all the search, analysis and raster management features in Oracle Spatial
GeoRaster.
In addition, this API includes calls to support the development of extraction,
transformation, and loading (ETL) tools, Web applications and raster processing
applications.
This new feature simplifies the development of Java applications that use, access, and
manipulate raster and gridded data sets stored in Oracle Spatial.
See Also:
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Developer's Guide for details
1.11.2.4 Raster Reprojections and Ground Control Point-Based (GCP)

Georeferencing
Oracle Spatial currently includes support for over 4,000 coordinate systems when
using vector data. Oracle GeoRaster now supports the reprojection of imagery to any
of these 4,000 plus Oracle Spatial coordinate systems.
In this release the GeoRaster feature also supports native storage and georeferencing
of Ground Control Point (GCP) data.
These capabilities remove the requirement for third-party tools currently required
when using vector data and raster imagery in different coordinate systems. Oracle
Spatial can now be used to perform these reprojections.

Ground Control Point-based georeferencing is used in data collection and processing

applications. This native GCP storage and georeferencing can be used to georeference
raw (non-rectified) and processed (rectified) raster data.
See Also:
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Developer's Guide for details
1.11.2.5 Routing and Geocoding Enhancements

With this release, the Oracle Spatial routing engine is based on the network data
model. This increases the ability of Oracle to support the restrictions and conditions
required for advanced routing applications.
The Oracle Spatial 11.2 geocoder, in addition to the support for standard address
geocoding based on interpolation, now supports point-based geocoding where data
sets include the exact location of addresses, intersections, and points of interest.
Oracle Spatial now supports truck routing data sets to produce driving directions that
include restrictions based on roads, weight, height, time of day, and other conditions
applied to commercial and logistics applications.
Point-based geocoding is becoming increasingly popular because it allows for more
accurate results and can be used in situations where interpolation is not possible.
See Also:
Oracle Spatial Developer's Guide for details
1.11.3 Oracle SecureFiles

The following sections describe improvements in Oracle SecureFiles.
1.11.3.1 Database File System (DBFS)

The Oracle Database File System (DBFS) enables the database to be used as a
POSIX-compatible file system on Linux. This feature includes a PL/SQL package on
the database server that enables the DBFS server functionality and a Linux client for
DBFS (dbfs_client). The dbfs_client client is a utility that enables mounting of a
DBFS file system as a mount point on Linux. It provides the mapping from file system
operations to database operations. The dbfs_client client runs completely in user space
and interacts with the kernel through the FUSE library infrastructure.
DBFS Hierarchical Store provides an easy and application-transparent way to archive
SecureFiles data that is stored in DBFS file systems to secondary storage tiers such as
tape and storage clouds, using DBFS Links. It also allows archived data to be
dearchived and brought back into the database on demand.
DBFS makes it easy for files to be accessed by database applications, and for file-based
tools to access files stored in the database. With DBFS, all important file data can be
seamlessly stored in an Oracle database, providing the benefits of security, backup,
performance, and scalability that are standard with the Oracle Database.
SecureFiles is a high performance solution for storing files or unstructured data in
Oracle Database. Customers often need to store these files for long periods of time for
business or compliance reasons. Consequently, customers are looking to transfer files
to cheaper forms of storage in an application-transparent manner to reduce
manageability and administration overhead. DBFS Hierarchical Store provides a
seamless, automatic, and transparent way to archive cold file data to inexpensive
storage.

See Also:
Oracle Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide for
details
1.11.3.2 Support for Oracle SecureFiles

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) introduces a new compression level for
SecureFiles LOBs called COMPRESS LOW. This compression level introduces a
lightweight compression option that removes the majority of the CPU cost that is
typical with file compression. Compressed SecureFiles at the LOW level now provides a
very efficient choice for SecureFiles storage. SecureFiles LOBs compressed at LOW
generally consume less CPU than BasicFile (pre-11g Release 1) LOBs, consume less
storage than BasicFile LOBs and typically makes the application run faster because of
reduced disk I/O.
See Also:
Oracle Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide for
details
1.11.4 Oracle XML DB Scale and Performance Improvements

The following sections address key customer requirements in the area of scalability
and performance by delivering partitioning of XML tables, scaling on registering large
XML Schemata, significant improvements in XML indexing and query performance
for common real-world workloads, and significant improvements in performance of
repository operations.
1.11.4.1 Binary XML Enhancements

This release includes support for partitioning of binary XMLType table and relation
tables containing binary XML columns, where the partition key is derived from the
XML content. Also included are guidelines on how to optimize performance of binary
XML operations.
This new feature allows Oracle partitioning to be used with binary XML content,
thereby allowing large volumes of XML data to be managed effectively.
See Also:
Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for details
1.11.4.2 Oracle XML DB Repository Performance Improvements and Guidelines

Oracle XML DB Repository performance improvements include guidance on:
■ How to optimize hierarchical queries using EQUALS_PATH and UNDER_PATH
condition.
■ How to optimize performance of hierarchical index when querying the repository.
The benefit is improved performance for repository operations.
See Also:
1.11.4.3 XMLIndex Enhancements

This release includes improvements to the ability for Oracle to index unstructured,
semi-structured, and highly-structured XML documents stored using binary XML.

Also included is support for partitioned indexes and parallel operations. These
enhancements incorporate all features of existing XMLIndex and XMLTable Index into
a single unified index.
The benefits are high performance query, fragments, and scalar extraction operations
on schema and schema-less binary XML storage.
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1.11.4.4 XMLType Partitioning

This feature allows partitioning of the nested tables that are used to manage
collections of child elements when storing XML documents using object-based
persistence in conjunction with nested tables.
XMLType partitioning enables all the advanced features of the Oracle partitioning
option to be used to manage XMLType data.
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2
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2)
2
New Features
This chapter contains descriptions of all of the features that are new to Oracle Database
11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2). This chapter contains the following sections:
■ General
■ ACFS Improvements
■ Quality of Service (QoS) Management
■ Database Replay
■ Management
2.1 General
The following sections describe the new features for Oracle Database 11g Release 2
(11.2.0.2).
2.1.1 General
The following sections provide information on new features for 11.2.0.2.
2.1.1.1 Control File Updates Can Be Disabled During NOLOGGING Operations

Parameter DB_UNRECOVERABLE_SCN_TRACKING = [ TRUE | FALSE ] can be
used to turn off control file writes to update fields that track the highest unrecoverable
SCN and Time during a NOLOGGING direct path operation.
Performance of the NOLOGGING load operation could be limited by the control file
write I/O.
2.1.1.2 New Package for Configuring Automatic SQL Tuning

A new PL/SQL package, DBMS_AUTO_SQLTUNE, has been introduced to provide more
restrictive access to the Automatic SQL Tuning feature.
With this package, access to Automatic SQL Tuning can be restricted to DBAs so that
only they can change its configuration settings that effect run-time behavior of the
query optimizer, such as enabling or disabling automatic SQL profile creation.
See Also:

General
2.1.1.3 Enhanced Security for DBMS_SCHEDULER E-Mail Notification

Encryption and authentication have been added to the Oracle Scheduler's e-mail
notification feature.
E-mail notification on job failures was added in 11.2.0.1, but it did not support those
e-mail servers that require either encryption or authentication. This feature adds this
support in 11.2.0.2.
See Also:
2.1.1.4 Enhanced TRUNCATE Functionality

While truncating a table or partition, you can now specify whether or not to keep any
segments. Truncating a table or partition with the new extended syntax removes all
segments and does not use any space until new data is inserted.
All allocated space in a database can now be reclaimed by truncating tables or
partitions with the new extended syntax, optimizing the space foot print of any
application.
See Also:
2.1.1.5 Improvements to Reduce the Occurrences of "Existing State of Packages

Discarded" Errors
When the body of a stateful package is recompiled by session A, then a different
session B which has already instantiated that package will experience the ORA-04068
existing state of packages… has been discarded family of errors on its
next reference to that package following the recompilation. The result is severe
disruption for the user of session B.
Two improvements in this release now reduce the likelihood of these ORA-04068
errors:
■ A package, whose global variables is marked constant; and where the initial
value can be computed at compile time, is now considered to be stateless.
■ The new procedure DBMS_SESSION.RESET_SELF(), whose invocation must be
in the package of interest, allows you to preempt the problem when it is safe to
reinitialize the package state.
The advantage is that packages (and especially those that are not editioned) can be
"hot patched" (that is, recompiled) when other sessions are using them with a greatly
reduced likelihood of disrupting those sessions.
See Also:
Oracle Database PL/SQL Language Reference for details
2.1.1.6 Support for In-Place Upgrade of Clients

Both in-place and out-of-place upgrades are supported for client installations.
You now have the option of doing in-place client upgrades reducing the need for extra
storage and simplifying the installation process.

General
See Also:
Oracle Database Client Installation Guide for Linux for details
2.1.1.7 Maintenance Package for Segment Creation on Demand

Customers can manage the space allocation of any application through extended
functionality of the DBMS_SPACE package. This package can be used to remove the
segments for all empty tables in a database, a user schema, or for specific tables. This
package also provides the opposite functionality to materialize all segments for empty
tables or partitions with deferred segment creation
The explicit management of deferred segment creation enables you to take advantage
of this functionality at any given point in time, even after table or partition creation.
This is especially useful for systems that were upgraded in-place and makes a
re-creation of all empty objects unnecessary.
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2.1.1.8 Maximum CPU Utilization Limit

Resource Manager provides a new directive called MAX_UTILIZATION_LIMIT that
allows you to place a hard limit on the amount of CPU utilized by a consumer group.
The MAX_UTILIZATION_LIMIT directive is useful for limiting the CPU utilization of
low priority workloads. This directive is also useful for providing more consistent
performance for the workload in a consumer group, and it helps to build systems
where end users experience consistent response times for each database operation.
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2.1.1.9 Name Matching

This feature provides an efficient method for matching proper names (and words) that
take a query as input and returns a ranked list of matches. The new operator NDATA is
introduced for this functionality.
In today's multicultural society, a person accustomed to the spelling rules of one
demographic may have difficulty applying those same rules to a name originating
from a different culture.
Name matching provides a solution to match proper names that might differ in
spelling due to orthographic variation.
See Also:
Oracle Text Reference for details
2.1.1.10 Named Entity Extraction

Entity extraction is the recognition of entity names (people and organizations), places,
temporal expressions, and types of numerical expressions such as currencies and
measures.
The goal of entity extraction is to identify instances of a particular pre-specified class
of entities in textual documents.
The benefit is to produce a "structured" view of a document that can later be used for
text or data mining and more comprehensive intelligence analysis.

General
See Also:
Oracle Text Reference for details
2.1.1.11 Default Size of First Extent of Any New Segment for a Partitioned Table
Has Changed
The default size of the first extent of any new segment for a partitioned table is now 8
MB instead of 64 K.
The goal is to improve I/O performance. However, under certain circumstances,
loading a table will take significantly more disk space.
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2.1.1.12 Parallel Statement Queuing

Parallel Statement Queuing ensures all statements run on a system get the appropriate
parallel resources to perform well by allowing you to ensure that a system is neither
overwhelmed nor starved for parallel server processes. Queuing can be implemented
per resource group and allows for both prioritization of statements and the above
mentioned management of a parallel workload. Parallel Statement Queuing works in
conjunction with Automatic Degree of Parallelism.
Data Warehouses are evolving into systems that support both operational
environments and the more classic strategic data warehouse workloads. These mixed
workloads require active workload management. One of these resources that should
be managed as part of the workload management process is the use of Parallel Server
Processes. Parallel server resources are allocated by Automatic Degree of Parallelism
(DOP). Statement queuing is then used to ensure that each statement can run with the
optimal DOP within the system limits. Allowing each statement to run with the
optimal DOP allows a system to:
■ Perform well overall and avoid large wait times on system resources.
■ Utilize all resources in an optimal manner without trashing the system in peak
times or due to runaway queries.
■ Balance overall performance to be much more predictable.
■ Allocate appropriate resources based on policies, not based on user abuse.
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2.1.1.13 PMML Import

This release adds support for importing external data mining models (linear and
binary logistic regression) using the Data Mining Group Predictive Model Markup
Language (PMML) standard. The imported models become native Oracle Data Mining
(ODM) models capable of Exadata offload.
If you use an external data mining product to generate models, you could encounter
difficulty when deploying those models into their production databases. The current
process of deploying such models is expensive, error prone, and non-performant. This
feature streamlines the movement of external models into production Oracle systems
and leverages optimized performance of the ODM option.

General
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2.1.1.14 Result Set Interface

The client interface CTX_QUERY.RESULT_SET executes a query and generates a result
set. The components of the result set are:
■ Documents.
■ Support order by SDATA.
■ A total estimated count of number of matching documents.
■ A count, broken down by metadata value, of matching documents in each
category.
A page of search results consist of many disparate elements (for example, metadata of
the first few documents, snippet, total hit counts, and so on). Instead of accessing the
database to construct bits of the search results, it would be useful to have a clean result
set mechanism. The result set interface is able to produce the various kinds of data
needed for a page of search results all at once, improving performance by sharing
overhead. The result set interface can also return data views which are difficult to
express in SQL, such as top n by category queries.
See Also:
Oracle Text Application Developer's Guide for details
2.1.1.15 Segment Creation On Demand for Partitioned Tables

The initial segment creation for partitioned tables and indexes can be deferred until
data is first inserted into an object. Individual partitions will not be physically created
before data is inserted for the first time.
Several prepackaged applications are delivered with large schemas containing many
partitioned tables and indexes. With deferred segment creation for partitioned tables,
empty database objects do not consume any space, reducing the installation footprint
and speeding up the installation.
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2.1.1.16 Simplification of XML and XQuery Interfaces

This feature extends the XQuery 1.0 standard's operator fn:doc and
fn:collection to allow direct access to collections of XML documents stored in the
database.
Direct access to XML content in tables and views is provided by extending fn:doc
and fn:collection to support DBUri-style paths through the pseudo protocol
xdb://.
Simplification of Oracle XML and XQuery interfaces provides standard mechanisms,
allows building of portable XML applications that are easier to maintain, and
deprecates redundant or unused functionality.
See Also:

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2.1.1.17 SMTP Authentication

Starting with this release, you can configure the UTL_SMTP PL/SQL package for use
on both Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) servers."
This allows the package to be used to send to SMTP servers that require authentication
to combat spam.
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2.1.1.18 SMTP Encryption

UTL_SMTP is extended in this release to provide Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and
Transport Layer Security (TLS) support.
This allows the package to be used to send to SMTP servers using SSL and TLS to
ensure channel integrity.
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2.1.1.19 SPA Support for Active Data Guard Environment

If you are using Oracle Active Data Guard physical standby database, you already
have full dataset or clone or both of the production environment that can be leveraged
for testing with SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA). Using remote test execution SPA
trial method, you can connect to a physical standby database in read-only mode and
use it for testing. The physical standby database continues to be in read-only and
standby mode (changes are being applied) during SPA testing. The SPA analysis and
reports are available from the remote database that is orchestrating the SPA trials. The
orchestrating database (SPA system) can be the primary database or any remote
database running Oracle Database 11g and higher releases.
This feature allows customers to leverage existing Active Data Guard physical standby
databases for SQL Performance Analyzer Testing.
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2.1.1.20 The EDITION Attribute of a Database Service

The EDITION attribute of a database service specifies the initial session edition for a
session that is started using that service. If the program that creates a new session does
not specify the initial session, then the edition name specified by the service is used. If
the service does not specify the edition name, then the initial session edition is the
database default edition.
When an edition-based redefinition exercise is implemented to support hot rollover,
some clients to the database will want to use the pre-upgrade edition and others will
want to use the post-upgrade edition. In this scenario, the database default edition is
insufficient because, by definition, it denotes a single edition. The EDITION attribute
of a database service provides a way to allow the client to specify the edition it wants
using environment data rather than by changing the client code.
See Also:

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2.1.1.21 Using Binary XML with SecureFiles as the XMLType Default Storage
In this release, the default storage model has changed for XMLType from STORE AS
CLOB to STORE AS SECURE FILE BINARY XML. This affects the storage used when
an explicit STORE AS clause is not supplied when creating an XMLType table or
column. Not specifying a STORE AS CLAUSE indicates that it is left to the database to
determine what the optimal storage model should be.
Prior to database release 11.2.0.2, the default storage model was STORE AS
BASICFILE CLOB. In 11.2.0.2, the default is changed to STORE AS SECUREFILE
BINARY XML.
This change requires the installation of the XDB feature in order to work correctly.
Customers that choose not to install the XDB feature must explicitly add STORE AS
CLOB to any DLL statements that create XMLType table or columns to avoid DDL
errors. Note that the use of XMLType without having the XDB installed is not a
supported configuration as of 11.1.0.1.
No data migration takes place when databases are upgraded to 11.2.0.2.
Binary XML with SecureFiles provides efficient storage, retrieval, and DML
capabilities for semi-structured and unstructured XML data. Changing the default
storage for XMLType to binary XML with SecureFiles helps customers to adopt best
practices.
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2.1.1.22 JDBC 4.0 SQLXML

This feature implements the JDBC 4.0 specification of the SQLXML interface for
managing the XML data type in the database.
This feature allows Java applications using JDBC-Thin or JDBC-OCI to manage the
XML data type in the database, using the standard SQLXML type
(java.sql.SQLXML).
See Also:
Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide for details
2.1.1.23 ID Key LCRs in XStream

ID key LCRs enable an XStream client application to process changes to rows that
include unsupported data types. ID key LCRs do not contain all of the columns for a
row change. Instead, they contain the rowid of the changed row, a group of key
columns to identify the row in the table, and the data for the scalar columns of the
table that are supported by XStream Out. ID key LCRs do not contain columns for
unsupported data types.
This feature enables XStream users to capture database changes that cannot be
supported using Oracle Streams.
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2.1.2 ACFS Improvements

The following sections provide information on ACFS improvements for 11.2.0.2.

General
2.1.2.1 ACFS, ADVM and Snapshots on Solaris and AIX

Oracle ACFS, Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) and Snapshots
were delivered in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1) on Windows NT and Linux
platforms.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) now provides a general purpose cluster file
system which leverages the capabilities of Oracle ASM on Solaris and AIX platforms.
See Also:
details
2.1.2.2 Oracle ACFS Replication

The Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)
Replication feature supports asynchronous replication of an ACFS file system from a
primary to standby site.
The Oracle ACFS Replication feature allows you to replicate ACFS file systems across
the network to another (possibly distant) site. This provides a disaster recovery
capability for the file system. This feature can be used in conjunction with Oracle Data
Guard to replicate all Oracle data.
See Also:
details
2.1.2.3 Oracle ACFS Security and Encryption Features

Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) security feature provides realm-based
security for Oracle ACFS.
Oracle ACFS encryption feature enables data stored on disk (data-at-rest) to be
encrypted.
Oracle ACFS security feature provides the ability to create realms to specify security
policies for users or groups for accessing file system objects. The Oracle ACFS security
feature provides a finer-grained access control on top of the access control provided by
the operating system.
Oracle ACFS encryption feature provides the ability to keep data in an Oracle ACFS
file system in encrypted format to prevent unauthorized use of data in the case of data
loss or theft.
See Also:
details
2.1.2.4 Oracle ACFS Tagging

The Oracle ACFS Tagging feature provides a method for relating a group of files based
on a common naming attribute assigned to these files called a tag name.
You can use this feature alone or in conjunction with other features. For example, in
conjunction with Oracle ACFS Replication, you can select specific files that you would
like to replicate to a different remote cluster site by assigning a unique tag name to
them. You would then instruct Oracle ACFS Replication to replicate files based upon
this tag name. By using tagging in this respect, the need to replicate entire Oracle
ACFS file systems is reduced.

General
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details
2.1.3 Quality of Service (QoS) Management

A new Quality of Service (QoS) Management Server enables run time management of
service levels for hosted database applications on a shared infrastructure by cluster
administrators. The goal is to present an easy-to-use, policy-driven management
system that ensures meeting service levels if sufficient resources are available and
when they are not, allocates resources to the most business critical workloads not
meeting their service levels at the expense of the less critical ones.
The following sections describe Quality of Service Management Server features.
2.1.3.1 Database QoS Management Server

The Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Server allows system
administrators to manage application service levels hosted in Oracle Database clusters
by correlating accurate run-time performance and resource metrics and analyzing with
an expert system to produce recommended resource adjustments to meet policy-based
performance objectives.
The Database QoS Management Server enables the pooling of resources to help ensure
that, when sufficient resources are available, performance and availability objectives
are met, even under demand surges. Managing resource allocations to match
performance objectives using a set of predefined policies, the Database QoS
Management Server greatly reduces system administrator and DBA time and
expertise. By continuously monitoring the system performance based on real demand,
it quickly identifies bottlenecks and potential problems that can be corrected before an
actual outage occurs. This system cuts time to resolve service level violations as it
provides detailed metrics and bottleneck identification along with recommendations
for resolution. The end result is the stakeholders trust to share resources thus reducing
capital and operational expenses.
See Also:
Oracle Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide for
details
2.1.3.2 Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Support

To support the Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Server, the Oracle
Database Resource Manager and metrics have been enhanced to support fine-grained
performance metrics and now have the ability to manage workloads by user-defined
performance classes.
By supporting the Database QoS Management Server, applications sharing a single
database or multiple databases within a cluster can be managed discretely to monitor
and maintain their service levels. This consolidation reduces hardware, software and
management costs while maintaining business objectives.
See Also:
details

General
2.1.3.3 Enterprise Manager QoS Management Integration

The administration of the Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Server is
integrated into the new Cluster Administration section of Enterprise Manager. This is
designed as a task-based interface to create policy sets using a wizard, manage
application service levels using a dashboard, and monitor performance through
historical graphs, logs and alerts.
This feature provides full task-based integration into Enterprise Manager, simplifying
the administration tasks necessary to manage database application service levels using
the Database QoS Management Server. It both reduces task and troubleshooting time
as well as the level of training required thus reducing costs while maintaining
application availability.
See Also:
details
2.1.3.4 Server Memory Stress Protection for Oracle Clusters

When QoS Management is enabled and managing an Oracle Clusterware server pool,
it receives a metrics stream from the Cluster Health Monitor that provides real-time
memory data including the amount available, in use, and swapped to disk for each
server. Should a node be determined to be under memory stress, the CRS-managed
database services are stopped on that node preventing new connections from being
created thereby protecting existing sessions. Once the memory stress is relieved (for
example, by either existing sessions closing or user intervention), the services are
restarted automatically and the listener begins sending opening connections on that
server.
Enterprise database servers can run out of available memory due to too many sessions
or runaway workloads. This can result in failed transactions or, in extreme cases, a
reboot of the server and loss of a valuable resource. Oracle Database QoS Management
detects memory pressure in real-time and prevents the addition of new sessions from
exhausting available memory thus protecting existing workloads and the availability
of the server. This adds a new resource protection capability in managing Service
Levels for Oracle RAC database-hosted applications.
2.1.4 Database Replay

The following sections provide information on new Database Replay features for
11.2.0.2.
2.1.4.1 Database Replay SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) Integration

This feature allows you to perform SQL Tuning Set (STS) capture and workload
capture or replay at the same time in a single process. STS is automatically exported
when the AWR data for the capture or replay is exported into the specified directory
object. By integrating SPA and Database Replay, you can analyze SQL-centric issues in
the workload more easily than if they were to do this manually in separate steps. An
SPA report can be generated at the end of workload replay to facilitate SQL-centric
analysis. Oracle RAC is not yet supported.
Integration of SPA and Database Replay features provides the ability to perform SQL
Tuning Set and workload capture or replay in one process and at the same time. As a
result, an SPA report is available to help with SQL-centric analysis when workload
replay is done.

General
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2.1.4.2 Database Replay Timeout Function

During workload replay, it is sometimes possible that due to an execution plan,
system change or otherwise, a replay call may hang or take a long time. You can
specify a replay timeout parameter. If the call exceeds the timeout, that particular call
is aborted. This is useful with workloads when one or a few calls result in the
workload replay to run too long or hang. Aborting these will still provide a useful
workload replay.
Database Replay timeout functionality provides the ability to control how long a long
running or runaway replay call will take. Without this functionality, a replay call may
take a long time or hang depending on the situation.
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2.1.4.3 Database Replay Workload Analyzer

Database Replay Workload Analyzer is a tool that analyzes a captured workload and
provides an assessment of how reliably it can be replayed. It highlights any potential
problems that might be encountered during replay by outlining the parts that cannot
be replayed accurately due to insufficient data, errors during capture, and usage of
features that are unsupported by Database Replay.
This feature tells you, at the time of capture, whether the specific workload captured is
something that can be relied upon for future testing.
See Also:
2.1.5 Management
The following sections provide information on new management features for 11.2.0.2.
2.1.5.1 DBCA Support for Creating an Oracle RAC One Node Database
Support has been added in this release to Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
(DBCA) to create an Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node (Oracle RAC One
Node) database as part of the database creation process.
Oracle RAC One Node is a new option to the Oracle Enterprise Edition introduced
with the Oracle Database 11.2.0.1. Oracle DBCA now recognizes Oracle RAC One
Node databases and provides the required configuration options to ease the
management of Oracle RAC One Node.
See Also:
for details
2.1.5.2 Option of Downloading Latest Updates During Installation

This feature allows the installer to download mandatory patches for itself as well as
for the base product at installation time so that they do not need to be applied later. It

General
also helps resolve installation issues at the middle of a release without either recutting
the media or deferring the bug fix to a later release.
Currently, when there is a bug in the base installation, you have to wait until the next
release before it can be fixed. This feature helps resolve installation issues at the
middle of a release without either recutting the media or deferring the bug fix to a
later release. The feature also applies mandatory patches for the base product, thereby
creating more certified installations out-of-box.
See Also:
Oracle Database Installation Guide for Linux for details
2.1.5.3 Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant Support for Out-of-Place Upgrades

Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster 11g Release 2 supports out-of-place upgrades.
The Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) now fully supports out-of-place
upgrades to this new release.
The graphical user interface (GUI) provides a simple interactive method for upgrading
environments to this new release. To allow scripting, the assistant also provides an
on-interactive method (silent) mode, which addresses various deployment scenarios
used by customers.
See Also:
details
2.1.5.4 Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant Support for Out-of-Place Upgrades

Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster 11g Release 2 supports out-of-place upgrades.
The Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) now fully supports out-of-place upgrades to
this new release.
The graphical user interface (GUI) provides a simple interactive method for upgrading
environments to this new release. To allow scripting, the assistant also provides an
on-interactive method (silent) mode, which addresses various deployment scenarios
used by customers.
See Also:
Oracle Database Upgrade Guide for details
2.1.5.5 Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Control Support for Oracle RAC One Node
Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Control provides support for Oracle RAC One Node
databases.
Oracle RAC One Node is a new option to the Oracle Enterprise Edition introduced
with the Oracle Database 11.2.0.1. Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Control now
recognizes Oracle RAC One Node databases and provides the required configuration
options in an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI), which simplifies the
management of Oracle RAC One Node beyond the scope of the command-line tools
that are already available.
2.1.5.6 Online Relocation of an Oracle RAC One Node Database

Oracle RAC One Node allows the online relocation of an Oracle RAC One Node
database from one server to another. The migration period can be customized up to 12
hours.

General
Oracle RAC One Node allows the online relocation of an Oracle RAC One Node
database from one server to another, which provides increased availability for
applications based on an Oracle Database. You can now move a database for workload
balancing as well as for performing planned maintenance on the server, on the
operating system, or when applying patches to the Oracle software in a rolling
fashion.
See Also:
for details
2.1.5.7 SRVCTL-Based Management of Oracle RAC One Node Databases

Oracle RAC One Node is a new option to the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
Oracle RAC One Node represents an Oracle RAC database that runs only one active
database instance which can be managed using SRVCTL as any other Oracle RAC
database.
Using SRVCTL simplifies and optimizes the management of Oracle RAC One Node
databases.
See Also:
for details
2.1.5.8 CRSCTL Command Enhancements

The CRSCTL command set has been enhancement to enable the management of
various new Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster resources.
Using these new commands simplifies the management of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
for a Cluster.
See Also:
2.1.5.9 SRVCTL Command Enhancements

The SRVCTL command set has been enhancement to enable the management of
various new Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC resources.
Using these new commands simplifies the management of Oracle RAC and Oracle
Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster.
See Also:
for details
2.1.5.10 Enhanced XStream Manageability

To increase the manageability of XStream, new process parameters are added to
provide capabilities such as process memory control, changes to sequences, and the
ability to exclude changes performed by specific users or transactions. Repositioning
within the stream by either SCN or TIME is available. In addition, new views specific to
XStream are provided such as V$XSTREAM_OUTBOUND_SERVER and V$XSTREAM_
TRANSACTION, and existing views have been extended to provide additional
information such as the client status or memory utilization of a process.

General
These enhancements give the XStream user more control over and visibility into
XStream processing.
See Also:
2.1.5.11 Columnar Compression Support in Supplemental Logging and XStream

Columnar compression is now supported with Oracle Streams and XStream.
This feature enables logical replication of tables compressed using Exadata Hybrid
Columnar Compression.
See Also:
Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration for details
2.1.5.12 Standalone Configuration Wizard for Post-Installation Cluster

Configuration
The installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster with Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 includes a software-only option. This wizard assists the administrator with
completing the cluster configuration independently of the software installation.
The configuration wizard provides an easy-to-use interface to configure the cluster
independently of the software installation. Post-installation configuration of the
software at the customer site is a standing requirement.
Customers that need to be able to mass deploy Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
or that need to support remote installations benefit from this feature.
See Also:
2.1.5.13 Redundant Interconnect Usage

Oracle RAC requires a dedicated network connection between the servers of the
Oracle RAC cluster. The dedicated network connection, called interconnect, is crucial
for the communication in the cluster. Using redundant network connections for load
balancing and for failure protection is recommended. While in previous releases,
technologies like bonding or trunking had to be used to make use of redundant
networks for the interconnect, Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC
now provide a native way of using redundant network interfaces in order to ensure
optimal communication in the cluster.
Using redundant interconnects optimizes the stability, reliability, and scalability of an
Oracle RAC cluster.
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3
Oracle Database 11g Documentation
This chapter lists the books available online that document Oracle® Database 11g.
3.1 Documentation Titles and Online Documentation Structure

All books are available in electronic format.
The following categories of documentation are available:
■ Oracle® Database 11g Server Documentation
Subcategories include:
– Administration, Concepts, and Reference
– Application Development
– Application Express
– Backup and Recovery
– Data Warehousing
– Language and Interface
– Networking and Security
– Oracle Real Application Clusters
– Streams and Replication
– XStream
■ Oracle® Database 11g Spatial Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Windows Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Gateways Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Communications Data Model Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Java Development Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Release Notes Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Data Mining Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g Documentation Library
■ Oracle® Database 11g Warehouse Builder Documentation
■ Oracle® Database 11g OLAP Documentation
Oracle Database 11g Documentation 3-1

Documentation Titles and Online Documentation Structure
■ Oracle® Database 11g Multimedia Documentation

■ Oracle® Database 11g Installation Guide Documentation
3.1.1 Oracle® Database 11g Server Documentation

Table 3–1 Oracle® Database Server Documentation
Part
Documentation Number Description
Administration, Concepts, and Reference
Oracle Database Globalization E10729 Describes Oracle globalization support for
Support Guide the database. Explains how to set up a
globalization support environment, choose
and migrate a character set, customize locale
data, do linguistic sorting, program in a
global environment, and program with
Unicode.
Oracle Database 2 Day + E10822 Explains how to perform day-to-day
Performance Tuning Guide database performance tuning tasks using
features provided by Oracle Diagnostics
Pack, Oracle Tuning Pack, and Oracle
Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Database Sample E10831 Describes the sample schemas included in
Schemas the seed database that ships with Oracle
Database 11g. These schemas are used in
examples in Oracle documentation, in
curriculum materials, and in demos on
Oracle Technology Network.
Oracle Database E10839 Explains how to create, configure, and
Administrator's Reference for manage Oracle Database on Linux and
Linux and UNIX-Based UNIX-based operating systems.
Operating Systems
Oracle Database 2 Day DBA E10897 Provides a single source reference for
administering Oracle Database in a small to
midsize environment, using the graphical
user interface of Oracle Enterprise Manager
Database Control. If you are familiar with
computers, but unfamiliar with
administering Oracle Database, and your
computer has four CPUs or fewer, and you
do not expect to support more than 500
users, this book is appropriate for you.
Oracle Database E11050 Describes Oracle's approach to information
Heterogeneous Connectivity integration in a heterogeneous environment.
User's Guide Describes Oracle Database Gateways and is a
user's guide for these Oracle products.
Oracle Universal Installer and E12255 Describes how to manage Oracle and
OPatch User's Guide for third-party software using the Oracle
Windows and UNIX Universal Installer and OPatch. This guide
provides instructions for installing, setting
up, and starting the Oracle Universal
Installer software. It also provides
instructions on cloning and patching Oracle
software.

Table 3–1 (Cont.) Oracle® Database Server Documentation

Part
Oracle Automatic Storage E16102 Describes how to configure and administer
Management Administrator's Oracle Automatic Storage Management for
Guide system, database, and storage administrators
who administer and manage storage.
Oracle Database Concepts E16508 Describes Oracle Database architecture and
essential topics for database administrators
and developers.
Oracle Database Utilities E16536 Describes how to use Oracle Database
utilities to load data into a database, transfer
data between databases, and maintain data.
The topics discussed include Data Pump
Export, Data Pump Import, SQL*Loader,
external tables and associated access drivers,
the Automatic Diagnostic Repository
Command Interpreter (ADRCI), DBVERIFY,
DBNEWID, LogMiner, the Metadata API,
original Export, and original Import.
Oracle Database Real E16540 Provides information about how to assure
Application Testing User's the integrity of database changes using
Guide Oracle Real Application Testing.
Oracle Database VLDB and E16541 Provides conceptual, reference, and
Partitioning Guide implementation material for using very large
databases (VLDB). It emphasizes
partitioning as a key component of a VLDB
strategy.
Oracle Database Quality of E16542 Describes the concepts of Oracle Database
Service Management User's Quality of Service Management (Oracle
Guide Database QoS Management), and instructs
the reader on how to configure, administer,
and troubleshoot Oracle Database QoS
Management. Oracle Database QoS
Management manages the resources that are
shared across applications and adjusts the
system configuration to keep the
applications running at the performance
levels needed by your business.
Oracle Database Vault E16544 Explains how to configure an Oracle
Administrator's Guide database to use Oracle Database Vault,
which enables users to restrict and monitor
administrative user access.
Oracle Text Reference E16593 Provides reference information for building
applications with Oracle Text.
SQL*Plus User's Guide and E16604 Contains a complete description of the
Reference SQL*Plus command-line interface to the
Oracle Database, and a complete reference to
SQL*Plus commands and syntax.
SQL*Plus Quick Reference E16605 Contains a complete list of SQL*Plus
command syntax.
Oracle Database Performance E16638 Describes how to tune the performance of
Tuning Guide Oracle Database and SQL statements using
Oracle performance tools in the
command-line interface.


Part
Oracle Database PL/SQL E16760 Describes the packages provided with the
Packages and Types Reference Oracle database server. The manual is
intended for programmers, systems analysts,
project managers, and others interested in
developing database applications.
Oracle Database Reference E17110 Provides reference information about
database initialization parameters, static data
dictionary views, dynamic performance
views, database limits, and SQL scripts that
are part of the Oracle Database.
Oracle Database SQL E17118 Contains a complete description of Oracle
Language Reference SQL, the language used to manage
information in Oracle Database.
Oracle Database SQL E17119 Contains a high-level text description of the
Language Quick Reference SQL syntax used to manage information in
Oracle Database.
Oracle Database E17120 Describes how to create, configure, and
Administrator's Guide administer an Oracle database. Includes
sections on Oracle Scheduler, Oracle
Database Resource Manager, Oracle Restart,
and distributed computing.
Oracle Database PL/SQL E17126 Presents PL/SQL, the Oracle procedural
Language Reference extension of SQL, an advanced
fourth-generation programming language.
Explains the concepts behind PL/SQL and
illustrates every facet of the language.
Oracle Database New Features E17128 Provides an overview of features, options,
Guide and enhancements that are new in this
release of the database.
Oracle Database High E17157 Introduces Oracle best practices for
Availability Overview deploying a highly available environment,
helps you determine your availability
requirements, and describes the database
architectures that can help your business
achieve high availability.
Oracle Database Upgrade E17222 Guides you through the process of planning
Guide and executing Oracle Database upgrades. In
addition, this manual provides information
about compatibility, upgrading applications,
and important changes in the new Oracle
Database release, such as initialization
parameter changes and data dictionary
changes.
Oracle Database Error E17766 Describes error messages that may appear
Messages while using products that are part of Oracle
Database.


Part
Oracle XML Developer's Kit E10708 Provides information to application
Programmer's Guide developers who need to use components of
the Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) to
generate and store XML data in a database
or in a document outside the database.
Examples and sample applications are
introduced. Developers need familiarity with
XML and a third-generation programming
language such as Java, C, or C++.
Oracle Database Data E10765 Describes how to implement custom
Cartridge Developer's Guide indexing and query optimization services
and how to package and use these as a
server extension called a data cartridge.
Oracle Database 2 Day E10766 Explains general concepts behind
Developer's Guide development with Oracle Database,
introduces basic features of SQL and
PL/SQL, and provides references to in-depth
information elsewhere in the Oracle
Database library.
Oracle Database 2 Day + PHP E10811 Provides a tutorial on how to develop PHP
Developer's Guide scripts that use the database languages SQL
and PL/SQL to access and manipulate
Oracle data.
Oracle Database E11822 Describes user-defined object data types and
Object-Relational Developer's how to use these data types to model
Guide complex real-world entities as objects in the
database.
Oracle Database Workspace E11826 Provides usage and reference information
Manager Developer's Guide about Oracle Workspace Manager, which
enables applications to create workspaces
and group different versions of table row
values in different workspaces.
Oracle Database SQL E12152 Provides conceptual and usage information
Developer User's Guide about Oracle SQL Developer, a graphical
tool that enables you to browse, create, edit,
and delete (drop) database objects; run SQL
statements and scripts; edit and debug
PL/SQL code; manipulate and export data;
migrate third-party databases to Oracle;
view metadata and data in third-party
databases; and view and create reports.
Oracle Database Rules E14919 Provides usage and reference information
Manager and Expression Filter about how to manage, index, and evaluate
Developer's Guide conditional expressions in relational tables.
Oracle Text Application E16594 Provides information for building
Developer's Guide applications with Oracle Text.
Oracle XML DB Developer's E16659 Describes Oracle XML DB, with guidelines
Guide and examples for storing, generating,
accessing, searching, validating,
transforming, evolving, and indexing XML
data in Oracle Database.
Oracle Database Advanced E17125 Explains topics that experienced application
Application Developer's Guide developers reference repeatedly.


Part
Oracle Database SecureFiles E18294 Describes use of large object data types
and Large Objects Developer's BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and BFILE in
Guide application development. Presents APIs for
working with LOBs in supported
programmatic environments, and
SecureFiles, that are LOBs that support
compression, encryption, and deduplication.
Describes database file systems and the
Oracle Database File System Hierarchical
Store package.
Application Express
Oracle Application Express E11945 Features a series of tutorials that
Advanced Tutorials demonstrate how to use the Oracle
Application Express development
environment to develop Web applications.
Oracle Database 2 Day + E11946 Offers an introduction to application
Application Express development using the Oracle Application
Developer's Guide Express development environment.
Oracle Application Express E11947 Functions as a comprehensive, task-based
Application Builder User's reference on using the Application Builder
Guide development environment to build and
deploy database-centric Web applications.
Oracle Application Express E12196 Explains how to install and configure Oracle
Installation Guide Application Express.
Oracle Application Express E12509 Describes how to convert applications from
Application Migration Guide either Microsoft Access or Oracle Forms to
Oracle Application Express.
Oracle Application Express E12510 Describes the Application Programming
API Reference Interfaces, referred to as APIs, available
when programming in the Oracle
Application Express environment.
Oracle Application Express E12511 Describes how to use Oracle Application
SQL Workshop and Utilities Express SQL Workshop and utilities to load
Guide and unload data from an Oracle database,
generate DDL, view object reports, and
restore dropped database objects.
Oracle Application Express E12512 Describes how to perform administration
Administration Guide tasks for an Oracle Application Express
workspace, application, or an entire
development instance.
Backup and Recovery
Oracle Database Backup and E10642 Provides information for the backup and
Recovery User's Guide recovery of Oracle databases, including
RMAN backup and recovery, RMAN data
transfer, Oracle Flashback Technology, and
user-managed backup and recovery.
Oracle Database Backup and E10643 Provides information for the backup and
Recovery Reference recovery of Oracle databases, including
RMAN backup and recovery, RMAN data
transfer, Oracle Flashback Technology, and
user-managed backup and recovery.
Data Warehousing


Part
Oracle Database 2 Day + Data E10578 Introduces the data warehousing solutions
Warehousing Guide available in Oracle Database and discusses
how to perform common day-to-day tasks
necessary to implement and administer a
data warehouse. This guide also provides
information about design tasks needed to
keep the data warehouse operational,
including how to perform basic performance
monitoring tasks.
Oracle Database Data E16579 Provides conceptual, reference, and
Warehousing Guide implementation material for using Oracle
Database 11g in data warehousing. It covers
the full range of data warehousing activities,
from physical database design to advanced
calculation techniques.
Oracle Data Guard Concepts E17022 Provides a comprehensive overview of
and Administration Oracle Data Guard concepts and describes
how to configure and implement standby
databases that can take over production
operations if your production database
becomes unusable. This guide includes
several database scenarios such as creating,
recovering, failing over, switching over,
configuring, and backing up standby and
primary databases.
Oracle Data Guard Broker E17023 Describes the Oracle Data Guard broker, a
management and monitoring interface that
automates many of the tasks involved in
configuring and monitoring standby
databases in an Oracle Data Guard
configuration.
Language and Interface
Oracle Call Interface E10646 Describes C programming techniques for
Programmer's Guide including SQL and PL/SQL in applications,
which can be used to unlock the full
capabilities of the Oracle Database.
Oracle C++ Call Interface E10764 Presents the Oracle C++ Call Interface, an
Programmer's Guide application program interface that enables
applications written in C++ to interact with
one or more Oracle databases. To extend the
functionality of code generated by the Object
Type Translator, programmers may want to
add code in the OTT-generated file. The OTT
can distinguish between OTT-generated
code and user-generated code by looking for
some predefined markers (tags). Support for
these tags has been added in this release.
Oracle Database XML C API E10770 Describes the C APIs for XML.
Reference
Oracle Database XML C++ E10771 Describes the C++ APIs for XML.
API Reference
Pro*C/C++ Programmer's E10825 Describes how to develop C++ programs
Guide that use the SQL and PL/SQL database
languages to access and manipulate Oracle
data.


Part
Pro*COBOL Programmer's E10826 Describes how to develop COBOL programs
Guide that use the database languages SQL and
PL/SQL to access and manipulate Oracle
data.
Oracle SQL*Module for Ada E10827 Describes how to use SQL*Module to
Programmer's Guide develop Module programs and Ada code to
access and manipulate Oracle data.
Pro*FORTRAN Supplement E10828 Supplements the Oracle Database
to the Oracle Precompilers Programmer's Guide to the Oracle
Guide Precompilers to provide additional
information on how to develop FORTRAN
programs that use the database languages
SQL and PL/SQL to access and manipulate
Oracle data.
Oracle Database E10830 Describes how to develop applications using
Programmer's Guide to the the Oracle Precompilers and the SQL and
Oracle Precompilers PL/SQL database languages to access and
manipulate Oracle data.
Networking and Security
Oracle Database 2 Day + E10575 Provides an introduction to securing an
Security Guide Oracle database. In addition to describing
how to manage security in a default Oracle
database, this guide includes beginning level
tutorials for Oracle Label Security and Oracle
Database Vault.
Oracle Database Enterprise E10744 Explains how to configure and use
User Security Administrator's enterprise users, which are users defined in a
Guide directory. The guide also covers
administrative tasks related to enterprise
user security.
Oracle Label Security E10745 Explains how to configure and use Oracle
Administrator's Guide Label Security, which provides row-level
access control based on the virtual private
database technology of Oracle Database
Enterprise Edition.
Oracle Database Advanced E10746 Explains how to configure and use Oracle
Security Administrator's Database Advanced Security. It covers
Guide stored data encryption, network data
encryption, and strong authentication.
Oracle Database Net Services E10835 Contains a complete listing and description
Reference of the control utility commands and
configuration file parameters available for
managing components of Oracle Net
Services.
Oracle Database Net Services E10836 Explains how to plan, configure, and
Administrator's Guide manage enterprise-wide connectivity with
Oracle Net Services.
Oracle Database Security E16543 Explains how to configure an Oracle
Guide database to use the default security features.
Oracle Real Application Clusters


Part
Oracle Clusterware E16794 Describes the Oracle Clusterware
Administration and architecture and provides an overview of
Deployment Guide this product. This book also describes
administrative and deployment topics for
Oracle Clusterware.
Oracle Real Application E16795 Describes the Oracle Real Application
Clusters Administration and Clusters (Oracle RAC) architecture and
Deployment Guide provides an overview of this product. This
book also describes administrative and
deployment topics for Oracle RAC.
Oracle Database 2 Day + Real E17264 Describes how to install, configure, and
Application Clusters Guide administer Oracle Clusterware and Oracle
Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) on a
two-node system using the Oracle Linux
system.
Streams and Replication
Oracle Streams Replication E10705 Contains instructions for configuring and
Administrator's Guide managing an Oracle Streams replication
environment. It also includes best practices
for Oracle Streams replication environments
and instructions for migrating from
Advanced Replication to Oracle Streams
replication.
Oracle Database Advanced E10706 Contains conceptual information about
Replication Oracle Database Advanced Replication. It
also includes information about planning an
Advanced Replication environment and
information about troubleshooting
Advanced Replication problems.
Oracle Database Advanced E10707 Contains reference information about and
Replication Management API step-by-step instructions for using the
Reference replication management API, which is a set
of PL/SQL packages for setting up and
managing an Advanced Replication
environment. It also includes reference
information about data dictionary views that
are important for Advanced Replication and
security considerations for an Advanced
Replication environment.
Oracle Streams Advanced E10768 Describes the Java APIs for application
Queuing Java API Reference development and integration using the
Oracle messaging system, Advanced
Queuing.
Oracle Streams Advanced E11013 Describes features of application
Queuing User's Guide development and integration using Oracle
Streams Advanced Queuing (AQ). This
information applies to versions of the Oracle
Database server that run on all platforms,
unless otherwise specified.
Oracle Streams Extended E12862 Contains extended examples that configure
Examples various types of Oracle Streams
environments.


Part
Oracle Streams Concepts and E17069 Contains conceptual information about
Administration Oracle Streams and information about
administering, monitoring, and
troubleshooting an Oracle Streams
environment. It also contains instructions for
using Oracle Streams to record table
changes. It also contains conceptual
information about information provisioning
and instructions for using Oracle Streams for
information provisioning. It also includes
instructions for using Oracle Streams for
database upgrades and database
maintenance operations.
Oracle Database 2 Day + Data E17516 Provides an introduction to completing
Replication and Integration common data replication and integration
Guide tasks. It includes instructions for accessing
and modifying information in multiple
databases, setting up and managing an
Oracle Streams replication environment,
setting up and managing a materialized
view replication environment, setting up and
managing a messaging environment, and
comparing and converging data at two
databases.
XStream
Oracle Database XStream E16545 Contains conceptual information and
Guide reference information about XStream. Also
contains instructions for using XStream. The
reference information includes descriptions
of the OCI API for XStream, PL/SQL
packages related to XStream, and data
dictionary views related to XStream.

3.1.2 Oracle® Database 11g Spatial Documentation

Table 3–2 Oracle® Database Spatial Documentation
Part
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster E11827 Provides usage and reference information
Developer's Guide for the GeoRaster feature of Oracle Spatial,
which lets you store, index, query, analyze,
and deliver raster data (raster image and
gridded data and its associated metadata).
Oracle Database Semantic E11828 Provides usage and reference information
Technologies Developer's about Oracle Database support for semantic
Guide technologies, including storage, inference,
and query capabilities for data and
ontologies based on Resource Description
Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), and
Web Ontology Language (OWL).
Oracle Spatial Java API E11829 Provides Javadoc-generated information
Reference about interfaces and classes that support
features available with Oracle Spatial,
including GeoRaster and the topology and
network data models, and with MapViewer,
which is packaged with Oracle Application
Server and Fusion Middleware.
Oracle Spatial Developer's E11830 Provides usage and reference information
Guide for indexing and storing spatial data and for
developing spatial applications using Oracle
Spatial and Oracle Locator.
Oracle Spatial Topology and E11831 Provides usage and reference information
Network Data Models about the topology data model and network
Developer's Guide data model capabilities of Oracle Spatial.
3.1.3 Oracle® Database 11g Windows Documentation

Table 3–3 Oracle® Database Windows Documentation
Part
Oracle COM Automation E10591 Provides installation, post-installation
Feature Developer's Guide for configuration, and usage information for
Microsoft Windows Oracle COM Automation Feature.
Oracle Database 2 Day + E10767 Serves as a quick start guide, which
.NET Developer's Guide for describes Oracle technologies for the
Microsoft Windows Microsoft .NET Framework, including the
key features of Oracle Data Provider for
.NET and Oracle Developer Tools for Visual
Studio. It leads you through installation and
configuration, shows how to build basic
applications using Oracle .NET products,
and how to create and use both PL/SQL and
.NET stored procedures.
Oracle Provider for OLE DB E12243 Describes Oracle Provider for OLE DB, a
Developer's Guide for high performance, feature rich mechanism
Microsoft Windows for Microsoft ADO and OLE DB data access
to Oracle databases, its usage, and its
configuration.

Table 3–3 (Cont.) Oracle® Database Windows Documentation

Part
Oracle Objects for OLE E12245 Describes Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O), a
Developer's Guide for COM-based data access driver that combines
Microsoft Windows seamless and optimized access to Oracle
databases with easy to use interfaces, and
shows how to use and configure OO4O from
virtually any Microsoft COM Automation
programming or scripting language, such as
Visual Basic.
Oracle Services for Microsoft E12247 Describes Oracle Services for Microsoft
Transaction Server Transaction Server, which allows Oracle
Developer's Guide for databases to be used as resource managers in
Microsoft Windows distributed transactions. The guide describes
its usage and configuration in a Microsoft
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
environment.
Oracle Database Extensions for E12248 Provides introductory, installation,
.NET Developer's Guide for post-installation configuration, and usage
Microsoft Windows information for Oracle Database Extensions
for .NET, which makes it possible to build
and run .NET stored procedures or functions
with Oracle Database for Microsoft
Windows.
Oracle Data Provider for .NET E12249 Describes provider-specific features and
Developer's Guide properties of ODP.NET. Oracle Data
Provider for .NET is an implementation of
Microsoft's ADO.NET interface and provides
access to Oracle databases.
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET E12250 Provides introductory, installation,
Developer's Guide for postinstallation configuration, and usage
Microsoft Windows information for using these providers with
ASP.NET services and controls.
3.1.4 Oracle® Database 11g Gateways Documentation

Table 3–4 Oracle® Database Gateways Documentation
Part
Oracle Database Gateway E12013 Provides Oracle Database Gateway
Installation and Configuration installation and configuration information.
Guide for AIX 5L Based
Systems (64-Bit), HP-UX
Itanium, Solaris Operating
System (SPARC 64-Bit),
Linux x86, and Linux x86-64
Oracle Database Gateway for E12014 Provides users with transparent access to
DRDA User's Guide DB2.
Oracle Database Gateway E12061 Assists Oracle database administrators who
Installation and Configuration are responsible for installing and configuring
Guide for Microsoft Windows Oracle Database Gateways.
Oracle Database Gateway for E12066 Describes the Oracle Database Gateway for
Informix User's Guide Informix, which enables Oracle client
applications to access Informix data through
Structured Query Language (SQL).

Table 3–4 (Cont.) Oracle® Database Gateways Documentation

Part
Sybase User's Guide Sybase, which enables Oracle client
applications to access Sybase data through
Teradata User's Guide Teradata, which enables Oracle client
applications to access Teradata data through
SQL Server User's Guide SQL Server, which enables Oracle client
applications to access SQL Server data
through Structured Query Language (SQL).
ODBC User's Guide ODBC, which enables Oracle client
applications to access non-Oracle systems
data through Structured Query Language
(SQL).
Oracle Database Gateway for E12071 Assists in determining hardware and
APPC User's Guide software requirements, installing,
configuring, or administering an Oracle
Database Gateway for APPC, developing
applications that access remote host
databases through the Oracle Database
Gateway for APPC using the SNA
Communication Protocol or the TCP/IP
communication protocol, determining
security requirements, and determining and
resolving problems.
IMS User's Guide ODBC, which enables Oracle client
applications to access non-Oracle systems
data through Structured Query Language
(SQL).
VSAM User's Guide Adabas, which enables Oracle client
applications to access Adabas data through
Adabas User's Guide Adabas, which enables Oracle client
applications to access Adabas data through
Oracle Connect for IMS, E12075 Describes the installation and configuration
VSAM, and Adabas Gateways of Oracle Connect for IMS, VSAM, and
Installation and Configuration Adabas Gateways, a prebuilt driver to
Guide for IBM z/OS mainframe data.
Oracle Database Gateway for E12076 Provides Oracle Database Gateway
IMS, VSAM, and Adabas installation and configuration information.
Installation and Configuration
Guide for AIX 5L Based
Systems (64-Bit), HP-UX
Itanium, Solaris Operating
System (SPARC 64-Bit),
Linux x86, and Linux x86-64

Table 3–4 (Cont.) Oracle® Database Gateways Documentation

Part
Oracle Database Gateway for E12077 Assists Oracle database administrators who
IMS, VSAM, and Adabas are responsible for installing, configuring the
Installation and Configuration components of the Oracle Database Gateway
Guide for Microsoft Windows for IMS, VSAM, and Adabas and for
diagnosing gateway errors.
Oracle Database Gateway for E12078 Provides Oracle Database Gateway
APPC Installation and installation and configuration information.
Configuration Guide for AIX
5L Based Systems (64-Bit),
HP-UX Itanium, Solaris
Operating System (SPARC
64-Bit), Linux x86, and Linux
x86-64
Oracle Database Gateway for E12079 Assists in determining hardware and
APPC Installation and software requirements, installing,
Configuration Guide for configuring, or administering an Oracle
Microsoft Windows Database Gateway for APPC, developing
applications that access remote host
databases through the gateway using either
the SNA communication protocol or the
TCP/IP for IMS Connect communication
protocol, determining security requirements,
and determining and resolving problems.
Oracle Database Gateway for E12417 Provides access to WebSphere MQ services.
WebSphere MQ Installation This gateway requires a system that is
and User's Guide capable of running 64Ebit applications.
3.1.5 Oracle® Database 11g Communications Data Model Documentation

Table 3–5 Oracle® Database Communications Data Model Documentation
Part
Oracle Communications Data E15883 Describes how you create and maintain a
Model Operations Guide data warehouse based on the Oracle
Communications Data Model.
Oracle Communications Data E15886 Describes the data model structures for
Model Reference Oracle Communications Data Model.
Oracle Communications Data E15887 Describes how to install and configure the
Model Installation Guide Oracle Communications Data Model.
Oracle Communications Data E15888 Describes known issues with Oracle
Model Release Notes Communications Data Model

3.1.6 Oracle® Database 11g Java Development Documentation

Table 3–6 Oracle® Database Java Development Documentation
Part
Oracle Database JPublisher E10587 Describes the JPublisher utility useful for
User's Guide Java programmers who want classes in their
applications to correspond to SQL or
PL/SQL entities or server-side Java classes.
Oracle Database Java E10588 Describes how to develop, load, and run
Developer's Guide Java applications in Oracle Database.
Oracle Database SQLJ E10590 Provides guidance to developers on SQLJ
Developer's Guide programming. This document can be read by
anyone with an interest in SQLJ
programming, but assumes at least some
prior knowledge of Java, SQLJ, PL/SQL, and
Oracle database.
Oracle Globalization E10730 Describes APIs for the Oracle Globalization
Development Kit Java API Development Kit.
Reference
Oracle Database XML Java E10769 Describes the Java APIs for XML.
API Reference
Oracle Database 2 Day + Java E12137 Guides application developers on how to use
Developer's Guide Java to access and modify data in Oracle
Database.
Oracle Universal Connection E12265 Provides instructions for using Oracle
Pool for JDBC Developer's Universal Connection Pooling API. The API
Guide is JDBC driver agnostic.
Oracle Universal Connection E12826 Provides Java API reference for Universal
Pool for JDBC Java API Connection Pool.
Reference
Oracle Database RAC FAN E13993 Provides easy access to Oracle Fast
Events Java API Reference Application Notification (FAN) events.
Oracle Database JDBC Java E13995 Provides Java API reference for Java
API Reference Database connectivity.
Oracle Database JDBC E16548 Provides guidance to developers on
Developer's Guide JDBC-based applications and applets.
Oracle Database XStream Java E16674 Describes the Java APIs for XStream.
API Reference

3.1.7 Oracle® Database 11g Release Notes Documentation

Table 3–7 Oracle® Database Release Notes Documentation
Part
Oracle Warehouse Builder E10585 Contains late-breaking information about
Release Notes corrections, troubleshooting, and known
issues for DB 11.2.0.2.
Oracle Application Express E11944 Contains important information not
Release Notes included in the Oracle Application Express
documentation.
SQL*Plus Release Notes E16608 Contains important information not
included in the SQL*Plus User's Guide and
Reference.
Oracle Database Release Notes E16778 Contains important information not
for Linux included in the Oracle Database
documentation for Linux.
3.1.8 Oracle® Database 11g Data Mining Documentation

Table 3–8 Oracle® Database Data Mining Documentation
Part
Oracle Data Mining E12218 Discusses the PL/SQL and Java interfaces to
Application Developer's Guide Oracle Data Mining and the SQL functions
for deploying Data Mining models.
Oracle Data Mining Java API E12219 Describes the classes and methods in the
Reference Oracle Data Mining Java API, the JDM
JSR-73-compliant API for data mining. The
Java API supports a full range of data
mining activities, including model building
and scoring, data preparation, and
import/export of models.
Oracle Data Mining E16807 Documents the installation, upgrade, and
Administrator's Guide configuration of the Data Mining option.
Oracle Data Mining Concepts E16808 Discusses the basic concepts underlying
Oracle Data Mining. Includes information
about mining functions, algorithms, data
preparation, and predictive analytics.

3.1.9 Oracle® Database 11g TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation

Table 3–9 Oracle® Database TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation
Part
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13063 Provides information about installing and
Database Installation Guide upgrading the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory
Database
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13065 Provides information about how Oracle
Database Operations Guide TimesTen In-Memory Database works. It
includes step-by-step instructions and
examples that show how to perform
commonly needed tasks.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13066 Provides information about developing C
Database C Developer's Guide applications to access the Oracle TimesTen
In-Memory Database. It also includes
information about TimesTen support for OCI
and the Pro*C/C++ Precompiler.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13068 Provides information about developing Java
Database Java Developer's applications to access the Oracle TimesTen
Guide In-Memory Database
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13069 Provides a reference for attributes, built-in
Database Reference procedures and utilities used with the Oracle
TimesTen In-Memory Database.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13070 Provides a reference for SQL statements,
Database SQL Reference expressions, and functions used with the
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database,
including TimesTen SQL extensions. It also
describes data types.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13071 Provides a reference for Oracle TimesTen
Database Error Messages and In-Memory Database error messages and
SNMP Traps SNMP traps
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13072 Provides information about designing and
Database TimesTen to configuring TimesTen to TimesTen
TimesTen Replication Guide replication, including information about
TimesTen integration with Oracle
Clusterware
Oracle In-Memory Database E13073 Provides information about designing and
Cache User's Guide configuring the Oracle In-Memory Database
Cache. It includes information about setting
up a cache grid.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13074 Describes how to use the TimesTen C++
Database TTClasses Guide Interface Classes (TTClasses) library
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13075 Provides information about utilities and
Database Troubleshooting procedures for troubleshooting problems
Procedures Guide that may be encountered when using the
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13076 Provides information about using PL/SQL
Database PL/SQL Developer's with the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory
Guide Database
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13080 Provides information about changes in the
Database Release Notes latest release of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory
Database

Table 3–9 (Cont.) Oracle® Database TimesTen In-Memory Database Documentation

Part
Oracle Enterprise Manager E13081 Describes how to install the Oracle TimesTen
System Monitoring Plug-in for In-Memory Database Plug-in for Oracle
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Enterprise Manager
Database Installation Guide
Oracle Enterprise Manager E13082 Provides late-breaking information about the
System Monitoring Plug-in for Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager
Database Release Notes
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13083 Describes TimesTen extensions to JDBC
Database JDBC Extensions classes and interfaces
Java API Reference
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E13084 Describes the TimesTen JMS/XLA package
Database JMS/XLA Java API
Reference
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E14000 Provides reference information for packages
Database PL/SQL Packages provided with TimesTen PL/SQL
Reference
Oracle In-Memory Database E14261 Describes the features of Oracle In-Memory
Cache Introduction Database Cache and provides information to
help developers plan an IMDB Cache
application
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory E17114 Describes system tables and replication
Database System Tables and tables. It also has a list of system limits and
Limits Reference defaults.
3.1.10 Oracle® Database 11g Documentation Library

Table 3–10 Oracle® Database Documentation Library
Part
Oracle Database Licensing E10594 Describes Oracle Database licensing. If you
Information have a question about your licensing needs,
please contact your Oracle sales
representative or refer to the resources listed
in "Related Documents" for more
information.
Oracle Database Readme E17129 Describes important last-minute features and
changes not included in Oracle Database
Documentation Library.

3.1.11 Oracle® Database 11g Warehouse Builder Documentation

Table 3–11 Oracle® Database Warehouse Builder Documentation
Part
Oracle Warehouse Builder B28692 Provides online versions of the complete
Help Oracle Warehouse Builder documentation
library, and context-sensitive help for all
user-interface objects within OWB. This help
system is available online within the OWB
Help Center.
Oracle Warehouse Builder E10581 Provides an introduction to the benefits of
Concepts using Oracle Warehouse Builder and its
architecture and components. It also includes
"quick start" steps, a user interface tour, and
provides information about OWB
preferences and OWB editors and wizards.
Contains fixes for 11.2.0.2.
Oracle Warehouse Builder E10582 Describes data sources and targets for Oracle
Sources and Targets Guide Warehouse Builder data warehouses and
data integration systems. This guide also
lists all the supported sources and targets
and provides procedures for importing from
sources and deploying to targets. Includes
bug fixes for 11.2.0.2.
Oracle Warehouse Builder API E10584 Describes the application programming
and Scripting Reference interfaces and scripting language available
with Oracle Warehouse Builder. It also
includes information about creating Experts
and Guided Assistants.
Oracle Warehouse Builder E10935 Provides comprehensive procedures for
Data Modeling, ETL, and Data loading data from sources, designing target
Quality Guide schemas, transforming data, generating
code, and performing all the tasks for
optimizing and managing data quality in a
data management system. Includes bug fixes
for 11.2.0.2.
Oracle Warehouse Builder E14406 Provides a complete language reference for
OMB*Plus Command OMB and OMU commands, which comprise
Reference OMB*Plus. OMB*Plus is the programming
language included with Oracle Warehouse
Builder.
Oracle Warehouse Builder E17130 Describes installing the software and
Installation and configuring Oracle Warehouse Builder
Administration Guide for (OWB). Part II of this guide provides
Windows and Linux procedures for administrating OWB.

3.1.12 Oracle® Database 11g OLAP Documentation

Table 3–12 Oracle® Database OLAP Documentation
Part
Oracle OLAP User's Guide E17123 Explains how SQL applications can extend
their analytic processing capabilities and
manage summary data by using the OLAP
option of Oracle Database.
Oracle OLAP Customizing E17237 Describes the Analytic Workspace Manager
Analytic Workspace Manager XML and Java plug-in interfaces and
provides simple examples.
Oracle OLAP DML Reference E17122 Contains a complete description of the
OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP
DML) used to define and manipulate
analytic workspace objects.
Oracle OLAP Java API E10794 Provides reference information for the
Reference Oracle OLAP Java API.
Oracle OLAP Java API E10795 Provides guidance for developing client
Developer's Guide applications using the Oracle OLAP Java
API.
3.1.13 Oracle® Database 11g Multimedia Documentation

Table 3–13 Oracle® Database Multimedia Documentation
Part
Oracle Multimedia Reference E10776 Presents reference information about using
Oracle Database to store, manage, and
retrieve images, audio, video, DICOM
format medical images and other objects, or
other heterogeneous media data in an
integrated fashion with other enterprise
information. (Oracle Multimedia was
formerly known as Oracle interMedia.)
Oracle Multimedia User's E10777 Presents information about using Oracle
Guide Database to store, manage, and retrieve
images, audio, video, DICOM format
medical images and other objects, or other
heterogeneous media data in an integrated
fashion with other enterprise information.
(Oracle Multimedia was formerly known as
Oracle interMedia.)
Oracle Multimedia DICOM E10778 Presents reference and usage information
Developer's Guide about using Oracle Database to store,
manage, and retrieve DICOM content such
as single-frame and multiframe images,
waveforms, slices of 3-D volumes, video
segments, and structured reports in an
integrated fashion with other enterprise
information. (Oracle Multimedia was

Table 3–13 (Cont.) Oracle® Database Multimedia Documentation

Part
Oracle Multimedia Java API E10779 Presents reference information about writing
Reference Java applications using Oracle Multimedia
objects to manage multimedia content within
Oracle Database. (Oracle Multimedia was
Oracle Multimedia Servlets E10780 Presents reference information about writing
and JSP Java API Reference Java applications using Java servlets and
JavaServer Pages (JSP) to retrieve and
upload multimedia data from and to Oracle
Database. (Oracle Multimedia was formerly
known as Oracle interMedia.)
Oracle Multimedia DICOM E10781 Presents reference information about writing
Java API Reference Java applications using the Oracle
Multimedia object designed to store Digital
Imaging and Communications in Medicine
(DICOM) data within Oracle Database.
(Oracle Multimedia was formerly known as
Oracle interMedia.)
Oracle Multimedia Mid-Tier E17343 Presents reference information about writing
Java API Reference Java applications using Oracle Multimedia to
extract Digital Imaging and Communications
in Medicine (DICOM) metadata outside of
the database, either on the client or in the
middle tier. (Oracle Multimedia was
3.1.14 Oracle® Database 11g Installation Guide Documentation

Table 3–14 Oracle® Database Installation Guide Documentation
Part
Oracle Database Installation E16763 Provides configuration information for
Guide for Linux network and system administrators, and
database installation information for
database administrators (DBAs) who install
and configure Oracle Database and Grid
Infrastructure for a Single Server on Linux.
Oracle Database Client E16765 Describes how to install and configure
Installation Guide for Linux Oracle Database Client on Linux.
Oracle Grid Infrastructure E17212 Describes how to install Oracle Grid
Installation Guide for Linux Infrastructure for a Cluster software, which
includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle
Automatic Storage Management (Oracle
ASM), on systems running Linux.
Oracle Real Application E17214 Describes how to install and configure
Clusters Installation Guide for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle
Linux and UNIX RAC) on systems running Linux and UNIX.
Oracle Database Examples E17861 Describes how to install and configure the
Installation Guide products available on the Oracle Database
Examples installation media.


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Oracle® Database

New Features Guide

Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xiii

1 Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features

2 Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features

3 Oracle Database 11g Documentation

This Preface contains these topics:

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

Deaf/Hard of Hearing Access to Oracle Support Services

1.1 Application Development

1.1.1 Oracle Application Express

1.1.1.1 Application Date Format

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-1

1.1.1.2 Custom Themes

1.1.1.3 Declarative BLOB Support

1.1.1.4 Documented JavaScript Libraries

1.1.1.5 Enhanced Report Printing

1.1.1.6 Forms Conversion

1-2 Oracle Database New Features Guide

1.1.1.7 Improved Security

1.1.1.8 Interactive Reporting Region

1.1.1.9 Runtime-Only Installation

1.1.2 Other General Development Features

1.1.2.1 Support WITH HOLD Option for CURSOR DECLARATION in Pro*C

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-3

1.1.2.4 JDBC Support for Time Zone Patching

1.1.2.6 OCI Support for 8-Byte Integer Bind/Define

1-4 Oracle Database New Features Guide

1.2.1 Backup and Recovery

1.2.1.1 Automatic Block Repair

1.2.1.3 DUPLICATE Without Connection to Target Database

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-5

1.2.1.4 Enhanced Tablespace Point-In-Time Recovery (TSPITR)

1.2.1.5 New DUPLICATE Options

1.2.1.6 New SET NEWNAME Clauses and Format Options

■ New format identifiers for SET NEWNAME...<format> are as follows:

1-6 Oracle Database New Features Guide

1.2.1.7 Tablespace Checks in DUPLICATE

1.2.2 Online Application Maintenance and Upgrade

1.2.2.1 Edition-based Redefinition

1.2.2.2 Enhance CREATE or REPLACE TYPE to Allow FORCE

1.2.2.3 Fine-Grained Dependencies for Triggers

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-7

In release 11.1, dependents on triggers did not have fine-grained dependency. In

1.2.2.4 IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_INDEX Hint for INSERT Statement

1.2.3 Oracle Data Guard

1.2.3.1 Compressed Table Support in Logical Standby Databases and Oracle

1.2.3.2 Configurable Real-Time Query Apply Lag Limit

1-8 Oracle Database New Features Guide

1.2.3.3 Integrated Support for Application Failover in a Data Guard Configuration

1.2.3.4 Support Up to 30 Standby Databases

1.3 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

1.3.1 Improved Analytics

1.3.1.1 Analytic Functions 2.0

1.3.1.2 Recursive WITH Clause

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.2.0.1) New Features 1-9

1.3.2 Improved Data Loading

1.3.2.1 EXECUTE Privilege for DIRECTORY Objects

1.3.2.2 Preprocessing Data for ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver in External Tables