Oracle10g new features

Oracle10i Database
New Features
Release 1 (10.1) - BETA 2
Part No. B10750-01

July 2003

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Oracle10i Database New Features Release 1 (10.1) - BETA 2

Part No. B10750-01

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Contents

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Preface............................................................................................................................................................ ix

1 Oracle10i Database Release 1 New Features
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 1-2
Performance and Scalability............................................................................................................. 1-3
Clustering ............................................................................................................................................. 1-3
Workload Management and Clusterwide Scheduling............................................................ 1-3
Server Manageability......................................................................................................................... 1-4
Manageability Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 1-4
Server Configuration.................................................................................................................... 1-6
Storage Management ................................................................................................................... 1-7
Instance Tuning ............................................................................................................................ 1-8
Network Management ............................................................................................................... 1-10
Application Tuning .................................................................................................................... 1-12
Space, Object and Transaction Management.......................................................................... 1-12
Backup and Recovery Manageability ...................................................................................... 1-13
Availability......................................................................................................................................... 1-14
Reduced Downtime for Application and Database Upgrades ............................................ 1-14
Flashback Any Error .................................................................................................................. 1-15
Backup and Recovery................................................................................................................. 1-16
Enhanced Data Guard Infrastructure ...................................................................................... 1-19
Security and Directory ..................................................................................................................... 1-21
Secure Hosting Enhancements ................................................................................................. 1-21

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Improved Administration ......................................................................................................... 1-21
Integration and Interoperability ............................................................................................... 1-22
Business Intelligence........................................................................................................................ 1-24
Bioinformatics ............................................................................................................................. 1-24
Improved VLDB Support .......................................................................................................... 1-26
Reduced Information Cycle Time ............................................................................................ 1-27
SQL Support for Analytic Applications .................................................................................. 1-29
OLAP Support for Analytic Applications ............................................................................... 1-31
Data Mining Support for Analytic Applications.................................................................... 1-32
Information Integration................................................................................................................... 1-33
Oracle Streams............................................................................................................................. 1-33
The Scheduler .............................................................................................................................. 1-38
Application Development............................................................................................................... 1-40
Globalization and Unicode........................................................................................................ 1-40
SQL Language Improvements .................................................................................................. 1-41
PL/SQL Improvements ............................................................................................................. 1-43
Java VM, JDBC, SQLJ, and Web Services ................................................................................ 1-45
Database Centric Application Environment........................................................................... 1-48
XML Application Development ............................................................................................... 1-49
Other APIs and Precompilers ................................................................................................... 1-51
Content Management....................................................................................................................... 1-52
Improved Multimedia Support ................................................................................................ 1-52
Improved Text Globalization Capabilities .............................................................................. 1-53
Improved Text Manageability and Usability.......................................................................... 1-53
Improved Text Quality of Retrieval ......................................................................................... 1-55
Location Services............................................................................................................................... 1-55
Database Overall............................................................................................................................... 1-57
Utilities ......................................................................................................................................... 1-57
Windows ............................................................................................................................................. 1-58
.NET Support............................................................................................................................... 1-58
64 bit Windows Support ............................................................................................................ 1-58

2 Oracle10i Database Documentation
Online Documentation Structure .................................................................................................... 2-2
Documentation Titles ........................................................................................................................ 2-2

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Oracle10i Server and SQL*Plus .................................................................................................. 2-2
Data Mining................................................................................................................................. 2-12
Oracle Spatial ............................................................................................................................. 2-12
OLAP ............................................................................................................................................ 2-13
Oracle10i Documentation for Windows ................................................................................. 2-13

3 Oracle10i Database Feature and Option Availability
Introduction to Feature and Option Availability ......................................................................... 3-2
Oracle10i Database Release 1 Options .......................................................................................... 3-2
Oracle10i Database Release 1 Feature Availability ..................................................................... 3-5

Index

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Preface

This book introduces the features, options, and enhancements that are new with this
Oracle Database release. This book also provides readers with a list of titles and a
brief description of the technical documentation available with this release.
This document describes the features of Oracle10i for Windows or UNIX software
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2003 operating systems. Note: Oracle may desupport Windows NT for 10i.
This preface contains these topics:
s Audience
s Organization
s Related Documentation
s Conventions
s Documentation Accessibility

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Audience
New Features is addressed to people familiar with previous versions of the Oracle
Database who would like to become familiar with features, options, and
enhancements that are new in this release of the database.

Organization
This document contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, "Oracle10i Database Release 1 New Features"
This chapter describes the new features of the Oracle10i Database, release 1.

Chapter 2, "Oracle10i Database Documentation"
This chapter lists technical documentation available with this release of the
Oracle10i Database and briefly describes the subject matter of each document.

Chapter 3, "Oracle10i Database Feature and Option Availability"
This chapter describes the Oracle features and options available for the Oracle10i
Database.

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Conventions
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Conventions in Text
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Convention Meaning Example
Bold Bold typeface indicates terms that are When you specify this clause, you create an
deﬁned in the text or terms that appear in index-organized table.
a glossary, or both.
Italics Italic typeface indicates book titles or Oracle10i Database Concepts
emphasis.
Ensure that the recovery catalog and target
database do not reside on the same disk.
UPPERCASE Uppercase monospace typeface indicates You can specify this clause only for a NUMBER
monospace elements supplied by the system. Such column.
(fixed-width) elements include parameters, privileges,
You can back up the database by using the
font datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL
BACKUP command.
keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands,
packages and methods, as well as Query the TABLE_NAME column in the USER_
system-supplied column names, database TABLES data dictionary view.
objects and structures, usernames, and
Use the DBMS_STATS.GENERATE_STATS
roles.
procedure.

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lowercase Lowercase monospace typeface indicates Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus.
monospace executables, filenames, directory names,
The password is specified in the orapwd file.
(fixed-width) and sample user-supplied elements. Such
font elements include computer and database Back up the datafiles and control files in the
names, net service names, and connect /disk1/oracle/dbs directory.
identifiers, as well as user-supplied
The department_id, department_name,
database objects and structures, column
and location_id columns are in the
names, packages and classes, usernames
hr.departments table.
and roles, program units, and parameter
values. Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED
initialization parameter to true.
Note: Some programmatic elements use a
mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Connect as oe user.
Enter these elements as shown.
The JRepUtil class implements these
methods.
lowercase Lowercase italic monospace font You can specify the parallel_clause.
italic represents placeholders or variables.
Run Uold_release.SQL where old_
monospace
release refers to the release you installed
(fixed-width)
prior to upgrading.
font

Conventions in Code Examples
Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line
statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated
from normal text as shown in this example:
SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = ’MIGRATE’;

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and
provides examples of their use.

[ ] Brackets enclose one or more optional DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])
items. Do not enter the brackets.
{ } Braces enclose two or more items, one of {ENABLE | DISABLE}
which is required. Do not enter the braces.
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or more options within brackets or braces. [COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]
Enter one of the options. Do not enter the
vertical bar.

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... Horizontal ellipsis points indicate either:
s That we have omitted parts of the CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery;
code that are not directly related to
the example SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM
employees;
s That you can repeat a portion of the
code
. Vertical ellipsis points indicate that we SQL> SELECT NAME FROM V$DATAFILE;
. have omitted several lines of code not NAME
. directly related to the example. ------------------------------------
/fsl/dbs/tbs_01.dbf
/fs1/dbs/tbs_02.dbf
.
.
.
/fsl/dbs/tbs_09.dbf
9 rows selected.
Other notation You must enter symbols other than acctbal NUMBER(11,2);
brackets, braces, vertical bars, and ellipsis acct CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;
points as shown.
Italics Italicized text indicates placeholders or CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password
variables for which you must supply DB_NAME = database_name
particular values.
UPPERCASE Uppercase typeface indicates elements SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM
supplied by the system. We show these employees;
terms in uppercase in order to distinguish SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES;
them from terms you deﬁne. Unless terms DROP TABLE hr.employees;
appear in brackets, enter them in the
order and with the spelling shown.
However, because these terms are not
case sensitive, you can enter them in
lowercase.
lowercase Lowercase typeface indicates SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM
programmatic elements that you supply. employees;
For example, lowercase indicates names sqlplus hr/hr
of tables, columns, or ﬁles. CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;
Note: Some programmatic elements use a
mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase.
Enter these elements as shown.

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Conventions for Windows Operating Systems
The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and
provides examples of their use.

Choose Start > How to start a program. To start the Database Configuration Assistant,
choose Start > Programs > Oracle - HOME_
NAME > Configuration and Migration Tools >
Database Configuration Assistant.
File and directory File and directory names are not case c:winnt""system32 is the same as
names sensitive. The following special characters C:WINNTSYSTEM32
are not allowed: left angle bracket (<),
right angle bracket (>), colon (:), double
quotation marks ("), slash (/), pipe (|),
and dash (-). The special character
backslash () is treated as an element
separator, even when it appears in quotes.
If the file name begins with , then
Windows assumes it uses the Universal
Naming Convention.
C:> Represents the Windows command C:oracleoradata>
prompt of the current hard disk drive.
The escape character in a command
prompt is the caret (^). Your prompt
reflects the subdirectory in which you are
working. Referred to as the command
prompt in this manual.
Special characters The backslash () special character is C:>exp scott/tiger TABLES=emp
sometimes required as an escape QUERY="WHERE job=’SALESMAN’ and
character for the double quotation mark sal<1600"
(") special character at the Windows C:>imp SYSTEM/password FROMUSER=scott
command prompt. Parentheses and the TABLES=(emp, dept)
single quotation mark (’) do not require
an escape character. Refer to your
Windows operating system
documentation for more information on
escape and special characters.
HOME_NAME Represents the Oracle home name. The C:> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener
home name can be up to 16 alphanumeric
characters. The only special character
allowed in the home name is the
underscore.

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ORACLE_HOME In releases prior to Oracle8i release 8.1.3, Go to the ORACLE_BASEORACLE_
and ORACLE_ when you installed Oracle components, HOMErdbmsadmin directory.
BASE all subdirectories were located under a
top level ORACLE_HOME directory. For
Windows NT, the default location was
C:orant.
This release complies with Optimal
Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines.
All subdirectories are not under a top
level ORACLE_HOME directory. There is a
top level directory called ORACLE_BASE
that by default is C:oracle. If you
install the latest Oracle release on a
computer with no other Oracle software
installed, then the default setting for the
ﬁrst Oracle home directory is
C:oracleorann, where nn is the
latest release number. The Oracle home
directory is located directly under
ORACLE_BASE.
All directory path examples in this guide
follow OFA conventions.
Refer to Oracle10i Database Platform Guide
for Windows for additional information
about OFA compliances and for
information about installing Oracle
products in non-OFA compliant
directories.

Documentation Accessibility
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accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our
documentation includes features that make information available to users of
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documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information,
visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at
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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation JAWS, a Windows screen
reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The
conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an
otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that
consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation This
documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations
that Oracle Corporation does not own or control. Oracle Corporation neither
evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web
sites.

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Oracle10i Database Release 1 New Features

This chapter contains descriptions of all of the features that are new to Oracle10i
Database, Release 1. This chapter contains the following sections:
s Introduction
s Performance and Scalability
s Clustering
s Server Manageability
s Availability
s Security and Directory
s Business Intelligence
s Information Integration
s Application Development
s Content Management
s Location Services
s Database Overall
s Windows

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Introduction

Introduction
This version of the Oracle database has been designed to meet two key goals:
reducing the cost of manageability and delivering increased performance for all key
workloads. In all areas, manageability and performance have been significantly
improved.
Major new high-availability features are provided, including new flashback
capabilities that reduce the downtime caused by human errors. In addition, support
for rolling upgrades has been enhanced to reduce the downtime associated with
database and application upgrades.
Security improvements in the first release focus on improved administration of
large numbers of users across an integrated end-to-end environment, and support
for key security technologies. Business intelligence solutions will benefit from
improvements in SQL analytical, OLAP, and data mining capabilities. The ability to
better support and more efficiently load and refresh larger databases is also
improved.
Support for nonrelational data stored in a database has also been improved in this
release, with new formats for multimedia data, addition of text classification
capabilities, and improvements in search and retrieval capabilities. XML capabilities
have also been expanded to focus on the effective management of large amounts of
XML data stored natively in the database.
New Oracle Spatial capabilities include a topology data model, a network data
model, a native GeoRaster datatype, and spatial analytic functions. Oracle Locator
performance has been enhanced for location queries and spatial index updates.
Workspace Manager now provides event management support, enhanced usability,
and more support for database features. Application development improvements
include support for a high-performance and highly integrated XML capability
across the entire technology stack and a framework provided with the database that
enables desktop and middle-tier applications to retrieve and extract data from the
database using standard Web Services mechanisms. This new version also provides
support for key requirements in the area of bioinformatics.

Note: Feature names with hyperlinks are available only with
Enterprise Edition or only as a separate option purchased with
Enterprise Edition. The hyperlinks take you to Chapter 3,
"Oracle10i Database Feature and Option Availability", for more
information about feature availability.

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Clustering

Performance and Scalability
As well as the overall performance improvements, specific support for new
architectures are provided, as well as some new performance features.

Configurable TCP/IP Send and Receive Buffer Size This feature adds interfaces to
enable a user to specify Send and Receive buffer sizes associated with a transport
connection, thus improving network performance, especially in bulk data transfer
such as replication, data warehousing, data mining, and so on.

Single-Set Aggregates in DML Returning Clause This feature enables the use of
single-set aggregation functions in the RETURNING clause of DML statements. This
capability can result in significant performance gains in transactions that process
many rows of the same table -- a behavior often observed in batch processes.

High-Speed Infiniband Network Support Oracle protocol support now includes
support for the industry-standard Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) for Infiniband
high-speed networks. The SDP protocol is a high-speed communication protocol
that speeds up performance of client/server and server/server connections. By
using SDP, applications place most of the messaging burden upon the network
interface card, freeing the CPU for other tasks.

Sorted Hash Clusters Sorted hash clusters are new data structures that enable
faster retrieval of data for applications where data is consumed in the order in
which it was inserted.

Windows Fiber Support This feature improves performance on Microsoft
Windows platforms by letting Oracle use Windows fibers.

Clustering
This release continues to address key requirements in the area of providing reliable,
scalable processing power on clusters of machines.

Workload Management and Clusterwide Scheduling
This version of Real Application Clusters introduces a new service framework that
enables administrators to configure, manage, and monitor application workloads as
a service, deployed across a number of nodes, in a large-scale cluster deployment.
This new framework enables administrators not only to monitor and manage


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performance levels for a given service but also to manage how to provide these
services continuously.

Cluster Workload Management This feature provides application workload
management and continuous services across large numbers of nodes without the
need to change your applications.

Real Application Clusters High Availability Extensions New high-availability
extensions in Oracle Real Application Clusters support the deployment and
management of applications for active/active high-availability configurations.

One of the major value propositions for this release of the Oracle database is a
significant reduction in the management cost of deploying and maintaining an
Oracle-based solution. A number of major developments in this area incorporate
new techniques and methodologies across the entire database platform. The
approach taken is threefold:
s Much of the complexity previously associated with configuring and deploying
an Oracle database has been eliminated or simplified.
s Wherever possible, common operating procedures have been automated.
s Many of the activities required to tune and manage different areas of the Oracle
database have been greatly simplified.

Manageability Infrastructure
A number of architectural enhancements have been introduced in this release to
facilitate current and future self-management activities. They include a common
infrastructure to store all auxiliary metadata and workload information, new
monitoring tools and statistics to optimize performance tuning, and a more accurate
and efficient wait statistics collection facility.

Easy OracleJVM Monitoring A new monitoring tool lets you collect various usage
statistics, monitor data traffic between the Java Virtual Machine and SQL engine,
and debug and diagnose Java session hangs or crashes.

SYSAUX Tablespace This new system-owned tablespace provides a centralized
location for all auxiliary database metadata that does not reside in the SYSTEM



tablespace. It reduces the number of tablespaces created by default, both in the seed
database and in user-defined databases.

Enhanced Wait Model The enhanced wait model facilitates performance
diagnosis. It lets you determine what sessions are waiting for, keeps a history of
waits and wait durations per session, and maintains wait statistics for SQL
statements in a dynamic performance view.

Database Features Usage Tracking This release of the database now can track
usage (configuration, runtime, or both) of various database features. This enables
the user to collect features usage for future evaluation. -

Enhanced Database Time Model The feature enables the database to keep track of
the time spent in performing internal operations such as parse, execute,
input/output, and so on. This information is used by the database for making
self-tuning decisions and makes it much easier to diagnose performance problems.

End-to-End Application Tracing The feature simplifies the debugging of
performance problems in multitier environments. It also makes debugging and
tracing of applications, which use MODULE and ACTION name annotation, easier
and more efficient. Further, it supports workload management based on service
levels and priorities for applications using services.

SQLJ: End-to-End Java/J2EE Tracing SQLJ enables you to monitor, trace, and
correlate resource consumption of Java and J2EE applications down to the level of
SQL statements.

JDBC: End-to-end Java/J2EE Tracing Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) enables
you to monitor, trace, and correlate resource consumption of Java and J2EE
applications down to the database operation level.

Automatic Routine Administration Tasks The Unified Scheduler now schedules
routine administration tasks, such as cold/hot backups and analyzing optimizer
statistics.

Server-Generated Alerts This release of the database will proactively send alerts
and notifications to administrators when a problem is anticipated or any of the
user-selected metrics exceeds a defined threshold.

Automatic Workload Respository A new, embedded, and completely
self-managing repository captures workload information and performance-related



statistics, thereby reducing administrative costs. The database uses information
contained in the repository for all self-management activities.

Threshold-Based Alerts New instrumentation for various server-produced,
threshold-based alerts is now tightly integrated with the Enterprise Manager
notification framework.

Server Configuration
In this release, the overall footprint of the Oracle database has been significantly
reduced. For those upgrading from previous versions, new easy upgrade
capabilities have been provided that greatly reduce the steps required to upgrade
an Oracle database. Optimal database configuration has been made much easier
with the initial release. Administrators need to be aware of only a small number of
basic initialization parameters that they can use to configure and tune their
environment. Many of the other tasks associated with database configuration have
also been eliminated or automated in the first release. Any future patch sets
required during the life of the database can be automatically identified,
downloaded, and applied from Oracle MetaLink.

Automatic Storage Management Configuration You can now use the Database
Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to configure Automatic Storage Management for
conventional and Real Application Clusters (RAC) environments.

Automatic RAC Services Configuration You can now use the DBCA to
automatically configure Real Application Clusters (RAC) environments.

Simplified Upgrade for RAC and OPS Databases The Database Upgrade Assistant
(DBUA) lets you create services for workload management when you upgrade from
a previous Oracle cluster software release.

Automatic Enterprise Manager Configuration The Oracle Enterprise Manager
repository, job, and event subsystems are now configured automatically, eliminating
the need for manual setup.

Automatic Portable Clusterware Installation The Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)
automatically installs and starts the portable clusterware and its related
components for RAC Cluster Ready Services (CRS).

Automatic Configuration of Recovery Area The Database Configuration Assistant
(DBCA) now automatically configures a default recovery area.



Out-of-the-box LDAP Configuration The new directory configuration by the
DBCA eliminates the need for LDAP.ORA by using a network API.

Simplified Initialization Parameters Initialization parameters are now divided into
two groups, basic and advanced. In the vast majority of cases, it is necessary to set
and tune only the basic parameters, of which there are 20 to 25, to get reasonable
performance from the database. In rare situations, modification of the advanced
parameters may be needed to achieve optimal performance.

Easy Upgrade This feature reduces the number of steps needed to upgrade a
database and its installed components, which greatly simplifies the database
upgrade process.

Upgrade Information Tool This new tool facilitates successful database upgrade by
performing some preliminary checks on the existing database (for example,
whether there is enough space, whether there are any obsolete initialization
parameters, and so forth), and by providing an estimate of how long the database
upgrade will take.

Simplified Database Install The installation process for the database has been
enhanced to reduce install time, system resource requirements (CPU, memory, and
disk space), and number of installation CDs.

Default User Tablespace Database creation now enables specification of a default
tablespace for storing permanent objects for all users created. This eliminates the
need to use the SYSTEM tablespace.

See Also: Oracle10i Real Application Clusters Installation and
Configuration for information on Real Application Clusters
installation in general as well as information on the Oracle
Universal Installer Storage Configuration, the DBCA Service
Management features of Real Application Clusters, and Oracle
Universal Installer clusterware setup.

Storage Management
One of the major improvements in the first release is in the area of automatic
storage management. The new version of the Oracle database can be configured to
take advantage of an Oracle-provided storage virtualization layer that automates
and simplifies the optimal layout of all Oracle database-managed disk storage,
including datafiles, control files, and log files. Administrators can easily configure
and manage a small number of disk groups, and the Automatic Storage



Management capabilities will then automatically configure these disk groups,
providing both data redundancy and optimal layout of all data. As storage
requirements grow, and more disks are added, the Automatic Storage Management
capabilities will automatically rebalance and redistribute the Oracle database files to
ensure optimal performance across the changed configuration.

Multiple Default Temporary Tablespace Support for SQL Operations You can now
define more than one default temporary tablespace, and a single SQL operation can
use more than one temporary tablespace for sorting. This feature lets you create
indexes on very large tables without being limited by the size of one tablespace,
because the sort operation during index creation can be distributed across multiple
tablespaces.

Automatic Storage Management Automatic Storage Management automates and
simplifies the optimal layout of datafiles, control files, and log files. Database files
are automatically distributed across all available disks, and database storage is
rebalanced whenever the storage configuration changes. This feature also provides
redundancy through the mirroring of database files.

Rename Tablespace You can now rename a tablespace. You no longer have to
create a new tablespace, copy the contents from the old tablespace, and drop the old
tablespace. This feature makes it easier, for example, to migrate a
dictionary-managed tablespace to be locally managed, or to transport a tablespace
to a database that already contains a tablespace of the same name.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on creating
multiple temporary tablespaces, creating diskgroups, and
renaming tablespaces
s Oracle10i Database Administrator's Guide for information on
multiple default temporary tablespaces, Automatic Storage
Management, and renaming tablespaces

Instance Tuning
Automatic instance tuning capabilities have been provided that greatly simplify an
administrator's life. The built-in resource management available in the Oracle
database has been expanded to include CPU usage quotas, enabling administrators
to easily set best operating procedures for all types of resource allocation. This in
turn makes it very easy to provide predictable response times for key business
operations. In addition, new methods of identifying resource consumption groups



enable existing applications to take advantage of these capabilities without
application changes. The first release also supports automated checkpoint tuning,
which takes advantage of periods of low I/O usage to advance checkpoints and
therefore improve availability.

User-Initiated Buffer Cache Flushing You can now flush the buffer cache
manually between runs of test queries, which facilitates your diagnosing and
testing procedures.

Database Resource Manager - Adaptive Consumer Group Mapping This feature
lets you define a default consumer group by service name, application, host
machine, or operating system user, as well as by database user.

Database Resource Manager - Fixed CPU Quota You can now allocate to
consumer groups a fixed percentage of CPU resource, which will make resource
allocation predictable.

Improved SQL Reporting Using Oracle Enterprise Manager The new Oracle
Enterprise Manager HTML interface for analyzing SQL, including Top SQL, helps
detect bad SQL and facilitates easy tuning.

New Performance Overview Charts in Oracle Enterprise Manager The enhanced
Oracle Enterprise Manager HTML interface provides a central point of access to all
database performance-related statistics and facilitates complete monitoring and
diagnostics.

Integration of Resource Manager and Profiles A new administrative tool lets you
manage database resources and eliminate redundant functionality by moving all
resource-limit-related functionality from user profiles into the Database Resource
Manager.

Automatic Checkpoint Tuning The Oracle database can now self-tune
checkpointing to achieve good recovery times with low impact on normal
throughput. You no longer have to set any checkpoint-related parameters.

Transaction Rollback and Recovery Monitoring This feature lets you estimate
how long it will take to roll back a transaction. You can also monitor the progress of
transactions being recovered and estimate the average speed of transaction
recovery.



Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor This feature enables the database to
self-analyze its performance. The database can identify potential bottlenecks and fix
them automatically or recommend a solution to an administrator. This capability is
built inside the database kernel and hence does not require any external tools.

Redo Logfile Sizing Advisor This feature recommends the optimal size of redo log
files in order to avoid excessive input/output due to frequent checkpointing.

Automatic Shared Memory Tuning Automatic Shared Memory Tuning automates
the setting of System Global Area (SGA) memory-related parameters (buffer cache,
shared pool) through self-tuning algorithms. It periodically redistributes memory
according to workload requirements and advisory information from different
memory clients.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database Administrator's Guide for information on the
Database Resource Manager
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on the
DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER package, adaptive consumer
group mapping, and integration of Resource Manager with
profiles
s Oracle10i Database Concepts for more information about the
Database Resource Manager, advisors, and other manageability
features

Network Management
This release greatly simplifies Oracle network management by eliminating the need
to manually configure the Oracle networking environment. It is now possible to
connect to a database from a client machine without creating the client
configuration files. A number of shared server parameters are now automatically
configured, and it is now possible to switch back and forth between dedicated and
shared server mode online.

Back Up Directory Naming Entries to Local Naming File You can now export
directory naming entries into a local tnsnames.ora file. Clients can use the locally
saved file when a directory server is unavailable or when clients have not been
upgraded to use directory naming.



Dynamic Connection Manager Configuration You can now easily change
Connection Manager (CMAN) parameters without shutting down the CMAN
process.

Easy Connect Naming Method This feature simplifies network management by
enabling a database connection to be completed without the need to first configure
a net service name or perform other net configuration on the client. It also enables a
connection to different databases or instances running on the same computer.

Easy OCI/JDBC Install Applications that use OCI, including the type-2 JDBC
driver, can now easily install only the required files instead of installing and
configuring the entire Oracle client; resulting in simplified deployment and smaller
memory footprint.

Improved Network Outage Detection A new API provides an efficient event-based
nonblocking abstraction that supports multiple connections. Oracle clients and
servers can now avoid being blocked on a network I/O request.

Automatic LDAP Discovery for Clients A client Oracle home no longer requires
the directory usage configuration file (ldap.ora) to use LDAP naming. If an
Oracle Internet Directory Server is registered with the Domain Name System
(DNS), clients can automatically locate a directory server, and can be mapped to a
particular Oracle Context, eliminating the need for local configuration. However, if
the ldap.ora file is configured, it supersedes the auto-discovery mechanism.

Improved Connection Manager Access Rules This feature eases configuration
and provides more flexibility when specifying access rules for Connection Manager
(CMAN). You can filter traffic for CMAN based on timeout, subnet mask, idle
timeout, and other rule-level controls.

Automatic Shared Server Configuration This feature improves flexibility if you
are using two server models. You can now easily switch between shared server and
dedicated server without having to start a dispatcher.

Simplified Shared Server Configuration Parameters You no longer need to set as
many initialization parameters for shared server environments, as the settings are
now handled internally.

See Also: Oracle10i Database Administrator's Guide for information
on shared server configuration and Oracle10i Database Concepts for
more information about manageability features



Application Tuning
New tools have been introduced in this release to minimize the manual SQL tuning
efforts. These tools provide advice to administrators on new indexes or materialized
views that can be created to optimize SQL performance and suggest changes to
existing indexes and materialized views in order to make them more effective.

Materialized View Tuning API The new TUNE_MVIEW API advises what changes
you need to make to a materialized view to make it fast refreshable and eligible for
advanced query rewrite techniques.

SQLAccess Advisor The SQLAccess Advisor is an expert system that identiﬁes
and helps resolve performance problems relating to the execution of SQL
statements by recommending which indexes or materialized views to create, drop,
or retain.

SQL Tuning Advisor This is a tool built inside the database server engine that
enables users to tune SQL statements. It takes a SQL statement or workload as an
input and gives advice on how to tune it.

Automatic Optimizer Statistics Collection This feature automates the collection of
optimizer statistics for objects. Objects with stale or no statistics are automatically
analyzed, so administrators no longer need to keep track of what does and what
does not need to be analyzed, nor to perform analysis by hand.

Space, Object and Transaction Management
Towards transparent space, object and transaction management: data, temp, undo
disk space mgmt, table, index, partition, lobs mgmt, transactions.

Automatic Undo Retention This feature automatically tunes the initialization
parameter Undo_Retention, used to control retention of undo information in
rollback segments. Automatic Undo Retention enables the database server to make
a best effort at adjusting to changes in undo requirements of user queries, with
changes in system activity given the space previously allocated to the undo
tablespace. It thus relieves the administrators from the task of constantly tuning the
parameter Undo_Retention.

Segment Advisor This advisor does two things. First, based on the level of space
fragmentation within an object, it gives advice on whether an object is a good
candidate for the shrink operation. Second, it reports on the historical growth trend



of segments. This information can be used for capacity planning and also for
arriving at an informed decision about which segments to shrink.

New Segment Resource Estimation This feature facilitates space management by
giving an estimate of the size of a table or index before it is created, so that an
administrator can ensure that sufficient space is available.

Online Segment Shrink This feature shrinks segments (tables, indexes, and
materialized views) that have free space in them, thereby enhancing efficiency of
space utilization.

Proactive Tablespace Management This tablespace advisor gathers and reports
historical data about each tablespace's disk space usage and notifies administrators
when tablespaces run low on available space. The user interface is visible via
Enterprise Manager.

Undo Advisor The feature advises the DBA in sizing the Undo Tablespace and in
setting the Undo_Retention parameter appropriately. This has two direct benefits.
It helps avoid the ORA-1555 'snapshot too old' error, and, for those using the
Flashback Query feature, it helps set the Undo Tablespace size correctly.

Backup and Recovery Manageability
These features simplify backup and recovery management (RMAN, server
recovery).

Enhanced RMAN Reporting The Recovery Manager (RMAN) provides enhanced
reporting. It can now list the backups required to restore a database and the
backups required to restore archive logs.

Backup Compression If disk space is an issue, or your media-management
software does not support compression, the Recovery Manager (RMAN) provides
the ability to compress RMAN backup sets.

Bounded Backup Window You can use the new DURATION option to give an
RMAN BACKUP command a limit on the amount of time that the backup is allowed
to take. You can also control I/O by specifying a window of time in which a backup
can run.

RMAN Scripts Manageability The Recovery Manager (RMAN) now enables
database administrators to easily view all scripts that are stored in the recovery


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catalog. Using a text editor, an administrator can create and test an RMAN script
before saving it into a recovery catalog. If the script needs to be edited, the
administrator can write the script to a file to make necessary changes.

Recovery Area Full Alert Administrators will now be alerted when an
out-of-space condition is imminent in the Recovery Area, potentially preventing
new backup and archiving operations.

Availability
Availability of data is a major requirement for organizations wishing to deliver
world-class data management capabilities. With this new release, Oracle extends the
ability of the database to deal with any type of human error, and also provides
support for reducing the time it takes to implement database and application
upgrades.

Reduced Downtime for Application and Database Upgrades
This release of the Oracle database further reduces the downtime associated with
application and database upgrades by supporting rolling window upgrades of
hardware, operating system, or database versions. This is achieved by using
standby databases, with new support enabling an organization to switch between
different versions of standby and production databases. Different patch releases of
database software running in a Real Application Clusters environment are also
supported. For database changes and application upgrades, the current online
redefinition capabilities have been expanded to support one-step cloning of all the
associated database objects. In addition, changes to the underlying objects no longer
invalidate the PL/SQL packages built on these objects, enabling new redefinition
operations to be performed without the need to recompile the corresponding stored
procedures.

See Also: Oracle High Availability Architecture and Best Practices for
general information on application and database upgrades

Enhanced Online Redefinition This feature increases application availability by
minimizing downtime, such as the downtime for application upgrades.

Signature-Based Dependency Tracking Using Synonyms When a PL/SQL
subprogram or a view references a table using a synonym, then repointing the
synonym to a table with the same signature and grants no longer invalidates its
dependents. Thus the need for time-consuming recompilation is avoided.


Availability

Rolling Upgrades with SQL Apply In a future patchset release of this release, it
will be possible to do a rolling upgrade using logical standby databases. The
foundation for rolling upgrades is now implemented into the SQL apply technology
so that the primary database incurs minimal downtime when you upgrade the
Oracle database software on each database in the Data Guard configuration. For
example, using SQL apply and logical standby databases, you will be able to
upgrade the oracle database software from patchset release 10.1.0.n to the next
database 10.1.0.(n+1) patchset release. See the README file for the applicable
patchset release.

See Also:
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on online
redefinition using the RDBMS_REDEFINITION package
online redefinition enhancements
s Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration for information
on rolling upgrades with Data Guard SQL Apply

Flashback Any Error
In this release, Oracle introduces expanded database flashback capabilities. If a
major error occurs, such as a batch job being run twice in succession, the database
administrator can request a flashback operation that quickly recovers the entire
database to a previous point in time, eliminating the need to restore backups and do
a point-in-time recovery. In addition to flashback operations at the database level, it
is also possible to flash back an entire table in this release of the Oracle database.
Similarly, a new capability enables the database to recover tables that have been
inadvertently dropped by a user. The existing flashback query capabilities have also
been improved.

Flashback Database This feature introduces the FLASHBACK DATABASE statement
in SQL. It let you quickly bring your database to a prior point in time by undoing all
the changes that have taken place since that time. This operation is fast, because you
do not need to restore the backups. This in turn results in much less downtime
following data corruption or human error.

Flashback Reinstantiation This feature reduces the need to reinstantiate the old
primary database following a failover. This in turn lets you more quickly restore full
resiliency after a failure. This is done by using the SQL statement FLASHBACK


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DATABASE to roll back the primary database in time to synchronize with the
standby database.

Flashback Standby Database This feature improves the switchover and failover
time of a standby database. You no longer need to specify a log apply delay, because
you can now roll back the standby database if some error occurs on the primary and
is propagated to the standby.

Flashback Table This feature introduces the FLASHBACK TABLE statement in SQL,
which lets you quickly recover a table to a point in time in the past without
restoring a backup.

Flashback Versions Query Using undo data stored in the database, you can now
view the changes to one or more rows along with all the metadata of the changes.

Flashback Transaction Query This feature introduces flashback transaction query,
which lets you examine changes to the database at the transaction level. As a result,
you can diagnose problems, perform analysis, and audit transactions.

Flashback Drop Oracle now provides a way to restore accidentally dropped
tables.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on the
FLASHBACK DATABASE, FLASHBACK TABLE, and UNDROP
statements and on flashback queries
s Oracle10i Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide for
information on FLASHBACK DATABASE

Backup and Recovery
In line with the management improvements in other areas, this release also greatly
simplifies the management of backup and recovery in an Oracle environment. New
in this release is a disk-based recovery area that can be used as an online disk cache
for backup and recovery operations for one or more Oracle databases. Automated
backup tuning, in conjunction with fast incremental backups, ensures that backups
complete within the window provided for these operations. In recovery scenarios,
the relevant Oracle database is also able to identify the correct backup to use for
restore operations, preventing the administrator from mistakenly using the wrong
backup. A new offline synthetic recovery is also supported, ensuring that an
up-to-date image is always available for fast media restore and recovery.


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Flash Forward This release supports automated, disk-based backup and recovery.
The benefits include simplified and unified storage location for backups, archive
logs, and any other files needed for Oracle recovery; automatic deletion of the files
after they have been successfully backed up by the Recovery Manager (RMAN); the
equivalent of a disk cache for tape, which reduces the time needed to restore a file
from tape; and reduced risk of an out-of-space condition on disk, by deleting files
that are no longer required for database recovery.

Drop Database The new DROP DATABASE command deletes all database files, all
online logs, control files, and server parameter files (spfiles).

Backup and Restore of Standby Control File This feature lets you quickly restore
the standby control file in case of media recovery, providing Oracle-managed files
and automatic storage management support for standby databases.

RMAN Database Deregistration The new UNREGISTER DATABASE RMAN
command removes all metadata for one database from the recovery catalog.

Automatic TSPITR This feature automatically creates the auxiliary instance
needed to perform tablespace point-in-time recovery (TSPITR) and incorporate the
RMAN TSPITR operations.

Simplified Recovery Manager Cataloging of Backup Files You can now catalog
RMAN proprietary backup metadata into a backup repository. If a backup is
overwritten in the control file or a backup file is moved to a new location on disk,
then you can easily uncatalog the backup metadata from the repository.

Automatic Channel Failover for Backup and Restore Recovery Manager (RMAN)
now automatically retries a failed backup or restore operation, reducing the risk of
leaving you with no backup of the Oracle database because of an error.

Automatic File Creation During Recovery This feature enhances RMAN recovery
by automatically creating and recovering datafiles that have never been backed up.

Simplified Backups to Disk Image backups provide fast recovery by being readily
usable. The Recovery Manager (RMAN) BACKUP command has been enhanced to
perform image copy backups at the database, tablespace, and datafile level.

Proxy Copy Backup of Archivelogs You can now back up archive logs by way of
the Recovery Manager (RMAN) Proxy Copy.


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Incrementally Updated Backups You can now apply a Recovery Manager
(RMAN) incremental backup to a datafile image backup. This results in reduced
recovery time, because fewer logs need to be applied, and reduced time to back up
the database, because you do not always have to back up the whole database.

Simplified Recovery Through Resetlogs You no longer have to back up your
database following an incomplete recovery and OPEN RESETLOGS operations.

Restore Tolerates Corrupt or Missing Backups When the latest backup is not
available, Recovery Manager (RMAN) now automatically uses an older backup for
restore operations.

Full Database Begin Backup Command It is no longer necessary to issue a
separate command to place each tablespace in hot backup mode. You can now use
the ALTER DATABASE statement to place all tablespaces in backup mode. Also, the
BEGIN BACKUP command now runs faster than before.

Change-Aware Incremental Backups By using a new type of log file to track
blocks that have changed in the database, Recovery Manager (RMAN) can avoid
scanning the entire datafile during an incremental backup. Instead, the amount of
data scanned is proportional to the amount of data changed.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on the DROP
DATABASE statement
s Oracle10i Backup and Recovery Basics for information on
automated disk-based backup and recovery
dropping a database and on simplified recovery through
resetlogs
s Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration for information
on automated disk-based backup and recovery and on
simplified recovery of resetlogs
s Oracle10i Database Concepts for more information about flash
forward and an overview of backup and recovery features


Availability

Enhanced Data Guard Infrastructure
The Oracle Data Guard infrastructure introduced to support standby databases has
been improved. Support for log mining of additional datatypes is provided, as well
as hot log mining capabilities, enabling Oracle Data Guard to be used with a wider
variety of existing legacy applications. A new real-time standby apply capability is
provided, which ensures that the standby database is in close synchronization with
the production system. Zero downtime instantiation and easier zero data loss
operations are also supported for standby databases using SQL Apply.
Management of an Oracle Data Guard environment has also been improved in this
release, with support for more fine-grained supplemental logging at the database,
schema, and table level, and improved monitoring capabilities. Performance and
security of data transmission have also been improved.

See Also: Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration for
information on all Data Guard enhancements

Data Guard Broker Support for RAC You can now configure and support Real
Application Clusters (RAC) instances in a Data Guard configuration using Data
Guard Broker interfaces, both the GUI and the command line.

Automatic LogMiner Configuration For users who conduct LogMiner mining in
the same database that generated redo logs, LogMiner can scan the control file itself
and determine the redo logs that satisfy a requested time or SCN range. Through
this feature, LogMiner by default adds redo logs from the mining database.

Log Miner Support for Index-Organized Tables LogMiner support for
index-organized tables (IOTs) increases transaction recovery options for DBAs
using LogMiner and makes logical standby more complete.

LogMiner Support for More Types: LONG, Multibyte CLOB and NCLOB LogMiner
and SQL Apply now support multibyte CLOB and NCLOB data. SQL Apply now
also supports LONG data. Support of additional datatypes means that you can now
mine a greater variety of data.

Fine-Grained Supplemental Logging This feature adds a new set of data
definition language (DDL) statements to let you add or drop supplemental logging
at the database, schema, and table levels.

Secured Redo Transmission This feature increases the security of a Data Guard
environment by preventing possible tampering of redo data as it is being
transferred to the standby database.


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Uniquely Named Databases with DB_UNIQUE_NAME With DB_UNIQUE_NAME, it
is now possible to dynamically add a standby database to a Data Guard
configuration that contains a Real Applications Clusters primary database, when
that primary database is operating in either the maximum protection or maximum
availability protection modes, without shutting down the primary database. DB_
UNIQUE_NAME also enhances the usability aspects of a Data Guard configuration.

Simplified Zero Data Loss for Data Guard SQL Apply SQL Apply now supports
standby redo logs (SRLs) that enable complete zero-data-loss support for logical
standby databases.

Zero Downtime Instantiation for SQL Apply Shutdown or quiesce of the primary
database is no longer required when you create a logical standby database from a
primary database.

Real Time Apply The managed recovery process (MRP) can now recover redo
from standby online redo logs as the logs are being filled, without requiring them to
be archived at the standby database, resulting in faster recovery, switchover, and
failover times.

Redo Data and Archivelog Compression This feature compresses redo data before
submission to a standby site and uncompresses it upon retrieval; it also stores
archive logs in a compressed form.

Automating Recovery Through Open Resetlogs in Standby Databases Data
Guard supports the new in this release recovery through resetlogs feature that
simplifies recovery with backups taken from an earlier incarnation so that it is as
easy as recovering a backup from the same incarnation. Hence, database
administrators no longer need to make new backups of a database after a
RESETLOGS. Data Guard supports the recovery through resetlogs feature by
automating operations on a standby database when an ALTER DATABASE OPEN
RESETLOGS statement is being performed on a corresponding primary database. By
providing this automation, Data Guard eliminates the possibility of user error in the
event the standby database has not applied beyond the primary database OPEN
RESETLOGS point-in-time.


Security and Directory

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database Utilities and PL/SQL Packages and Types
Reference for information on LogMiner configuration
s Oracle10i Database Utilities for information on LogMiner
support for index-organized tables and for additional datatypes


Secure Hosting Enhancements
Virtual Private Database (VPD) security policies can be defined to trigger on
relevant column access, providing both better accountability and more fine-grained
data security. VPD also introduces static security policies for security rules that are
always enforced—that is, not based on changing criteria, such as time of access.
This provides a performance advantage in large-scale hosted environments. In
addition, VPD support has been enhanced to enable parallel execution of
application contexts, improving performance and scalability in data warehouses
where parallel queries are routinely used.

VPD Support for Parallel Query Virtual Private Database (VPD) now supports
parallel query, resulting in performance and scalability improvements.

VPD Static and Dynamic Policies Virtual Private Database (VPD) now lets you
distinguish between static policies, which are suitable for hosting environments that
always need to enforce an unchanging policy, and dynamic policies, which are
suited for time-dependent enforcement, such as time of day, where rows returned
must vary at a particular time.

Column-level VPD Virtual Private Database (VPD) is now more fine grained. You
are now able to enforce VPD rewrite when a query references a particular column.

Improved Administration
Administration enhancements lower the costs associated with development,
installation, deployment configuration, and management of security for realistic
applications. Security procedures are simplified so that complexity is not the
primary barrier to secure operational deployments.



Extended SQL Support in FGA SQL support of fine-grained auditing (FGA) has
been enhanced to support granular auditing of queries as well as UPDATE, INSERT,
and DELETE operations.

Communication over SASL This feature provides an alternate secure channel for
communication between Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and the database or
between two databases. If your enterprise deploys password-authenticated users,
then you no longer have to invest in and administer public key infrastructure (PKI).
Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) communication provides an
equally secure channel.

Easy Database Registration This feature eliminates the need for the RDBMS_
SERVER_DN parameter, making configuration of enterprise users easier.

Unified User Model A single sign on user defined in the directory can now use the
features offered by Enterprise User Security. No additional administration tasks are
required for provisioning and credential management. In addition, the
administrative groups for Enterprise User Security can now designate an owner,
which facilitates stronger security overall.

Uniform Audit Trail This feature improves security administration by providing a
uniform audit trail for RDBMS auditing in the form of standard and fine-grained
audit tables. Columns have been added to the audit tables to further improve
accountability of all users.

OLS Directory Integration You can now manage Oracle Label Security policies
and user label authorizations in a central OID/LDAP repository. This reduces
administration costs and increases security by eliminating multiple management
points.

Integration and Interoperability
Database integration with the Oracle Internet Directory has been enhanced, with
support added for directory management of Oracle Label Security policies, and
Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs). The Oracle Internet Directory can also be used
to store the passwords as SASL 'secrets'. In addition, this release provides full
support for Kerberos-based security frameworks, supporting both Kerberos-based
user authentication, and database-to-database communications based on Kerberos
credentials. Fine grained auditing, has been expanded to apply not only to query
operations to but DML operations as well, providing better accountability of all
user operations.



Certificate Validation with Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) Certificate
validation is an important element of enabling public key infrastructure (PKI) in an
enterprise. If you use SSL in an Oracle environment, you can now validate the
certificates presented by servers and clients for authentication.

Centralized CRL Management This feature reduces administrative costs by
enabling certificate revocation lists (CRLs) to be centrally stored in the Oracle
Internet Directory as an alternative to local CRL stores.

Centralized User Management for Kerberos Users Enterprise users can be
authenticated using their Kerberos credentials. This feature extends the support for
Kerberos users from external users to global users and enables users to be mapped
to an exclusive or shared schema.

Operating System Credential Cache This feature supports interoperability with
commercially available key distribution center (KDC) vendors. For example,
customers on Microsoft Windows platforms (including Windows 2000 and
Windows XP) using Kerberos as the security infrastructure can now integrate with
an Oracle environment with the same Kerberos credentials, achieving secure single
sign on.

Kerberos-Enabled Database Links You can now enable Kerberos-based
authentication across current-user and connected-user database links.

Access to Single Sign On Wallet Java applications, including those running
within OC4J, can now access the single sign on wallet through the key store
interface without user input or programmatically provided password.

Key Store Interface J2EE applications that must run over SSL can now use
standard key store interfaces provided in the Java Development Kit to open Oracle
Wallets.

End-to-End Identity Propagation User identity is now preserved across multiple
tiers in Kerberos environments. This represents a substantial benefit in Microsoft
Windows environments in which Kerberos is available at all tiers.

Database Authentication with Standard LDAP Password Verifiers This feature lets
an application use Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard Digest-MD5
verifiers for authentication of users and of the application itself, providing easier
integration of users into the Oracle environment.


Business Intelligence

Single Station Administration for Password Authentication to Oracle Database
Oracle database users and Oracle iAS users managed in the directory now use the
same attribute in the directory for authentication. This feature provides the same
level of security for safeguarding passwords (verifiers) as is available for public key
infrastructure (PKI) credentials.

Smart Card Support for X509v3 Certificates Oracle SSL users can now store their
private key material on smart cards. This feature provides complete machine
independence for performing SSL-based transactions.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) Support Oracle and Oracle iAS now support
transport layer security (TLS), which reduces network activity, improves caching,
and provides a framework to extend public key and bulk encryption algorithms.

SSL Session Renegotiation A client or server can now renegotiate the security
parameters of an existing SSL session. Because SSL handshake is highly CPU
intensive, this feature improves performance of SSL connection requests.

4096-Bit Key Size Support Users and servers can now be provisioned with
certificates with up to 4096-bit keys as well as the ability to honor the keys at run
time.

Performance Improvements This feature incorporates the performance
enhancements RSA Data Security, Inc., has made for SSL Crypto, which will
improve all Oracle products that are configured to run over SSL.

This release continues to focus on key requirements in the business intelligence and
data warehousing areas. In addition, it introduces new capabilities to better support
the needs of bioinformatics and life sciences customers.

Bioinformatics
This release contains specific improvements for bioinformatics customers. These
include the native support of new DOUBLE and FLOAT datatypes in the database,
resulting in improved performance for applications that require large amounts of
numeric computations. New built-in statistical functions are also provided to
support common statistical analysis. For genetic data, text mining capabilities are
provided that support document clustering and classification using Support-Vector



Machine algorithms. In addition, new BLAST similarity searches provide specific
support for analysis of genetic data.

BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT Datatypes This release introduces single-
and double-precision floating point number datatypes. These new types enable
faster arithmetic calculations and reduce storage requirements. These datatypes also
enable you to implement published algorithms that specify IEEE behavior for
arithmetic operations. Intense number crunching computations (whose scale and
precision requests can be accommodated by the IEEE types) will run very
substantially faster using these types than using NUMBER. Additionally, this feature
enables cleaner integration with XML and Java environments because it provides
similar numeric datatypes for those environments.

BLAST Queries Performing similarity searches for similar genes is a common
analysis for life scientists. This feature adds BLAST similarity searches to the Oracle
database. It lets you deal with gaps in genetic or proteomic strings and also lets you
assign costs.

Statistical Functions This feature provides the most commonly used statistical
functions as part of the database, including summary statistics, hypothesis testing,
ANOVA analysis, distribution fitting, and multiple regression tests. As a result, you
no longer need to extract data to external statistical engines for these analyses.

Document Clustering This feature provides a statistical clustering package for
automatic organization of documents.

Document Named Entity Extraction This feature provides document metadata
extraction by providing statistically assisted discovery and extraction of patterns
from text.

Document Clustering Non-negative Matrix Factorization A new
document-clustering algorithm provides non-negative matrix factorization support
for document clustering.

Document Clustering Neural Nets A new classification algorithm provides neural
net support for a classification package.

Support Vector Machines This feature provides a text mining classification
algorithm.



Taxonomy Builder The Taxonomy Builder is an HTML-based editor for the
efficient creation and management of taxonomies and ontologies.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information about
statistical functions and floating-point numbers
s Oracle10i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals for
information on floating-point numbers
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on PL/SQL
packages relating to floating-point numbers and on using the
DBMS_STAT_FUNCS package for statistical functions

Improved VLDB Support
Several new capabilities and improvements have been provided to support
customers who are planning to build data warehouses and transaction systems that
will grow to hundreds or even thousands of terabytes. First of these is support for
ultra large datafiles in an Oracle environment, which raises the limit of data
addressable by an Oracle database to 8 exabytes (8 million terabytes). Partitioning
improvements are also provided, with support for hash partitioning of global
indexes, providing increased throughput for applications performing very high
numbers of concurrent inserts. In addition, partitioning capabilities have been
expanded to include support for index-organized tables (IOTs), with support for list
partitioning, partitioning of IOTs containing large object binaries (LOBs), and
automatic global index management. Oracle Enterprise Manager also provides
complete management of partitioned tables, materialized views, and indexes.

Bigfile Tablespace An Oracle database can now contain up to 8 exabytes (8
million terabytes) of data. You can also store data in much larger files, thus
decreasing the number of files in large databases.

Enhanced Partition Management in Enterprise Manager This feature provides a
user-friendly, intuitive graphical user interface for complete management of the
wide range of partitioning options provided by Oracle.

Global Partitioned Indexes - Hash Partitioning You can now hash-partition
indexes on tables, partitioned tables, and index-organized tables. This feature
provides increased throughput for applications with large numbers of concurrent
inserts.



Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - LOB Support LOB columns are now
supported in all types of partitioned index-organized tables.

Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - Global Index Maintenance Oracle now
automatically maintains global indexes when data definitions language (DDL)
operations are executed against partitioned index-organized tables. This feature
greatly reduces the complexity of partition maintenance operations.

Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - List Partitioning You can now list-partition
index-organized tables, which can improve performance and manageability.

Enhanced Bitmap Index Performance and Space Management Bitmap indexes
now perform better and are less likely to be fragmented when subjected to large
volumes of single-row data manipulation language (DML) operations.

Local Partitioned Indexes Manageability Improvements You can now specify the
location of new local index partitions during partition maintenance operations.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on partitioning
enhancements and index enhancements
s Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide and Oracle10i Database
Administrator's Guide for information on ultra-large datafiles
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on using
the DBMS_ROWID package for ultra-large datafiles
s Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide and Oracle10i Database
Concepts for information on partitioning improvements

Reduced Information Cycle Time
This release of the Oracle database provides significant new capabilities to extract,
load, and transform data. The first of these is a new simple, scalable, and
nonintrusive change data capture framework that allows administrators to
asynchronously capture and publish changed data to data warehouses, data marts,
and even applications. For large-scale bulk movement of data, cross-platform
transportable tablespaces are provided, enabling large amounts of data to be very
quickly moved from one database platform to another. New external table
capabilities are also provided that support the unloading of data to flat files for data
propagation or storage. Newer versions of SQL*Loader and the Import and Export



utilities that take advantage of new high-performance data pump capabilities are
also provided.

Asynchronous Change Data Capture This feature provides a framework for
capturing change data, publishing it, and enabling applications to subscribe to the
change data in a controlled fashion. Change capture occurs asynchronously based
on the information in the Oracle redo logs.

Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespaces The transportable tablespace feature
now enables tablespaces to be transported across different platforms.

Enhanced Table Functions Parallel pipelined table functions have been enhanced
to improve performance by returning only required rows. In addition, anonymous
return types are supported for AnyDataSet table functions.

External Tables Unload You can now load and transform large volumes of data
into a platform-independent flat file for data propagation or storage, either serially
or in parallel.

Enhanced MERGE Functionality The MERGE statement has been extended to cover
a broader variety of complex and conditional data transformations, leading to faster
loading of large volumes of data.

Data Pump Export and Import Utilities The Data Pump Export and Import utilities
provide very high-speed bulk movement of data and metadata from database to
another. These utilities offer several significant advantages over the original Export
and Import utilities, including: the ability to completely restart export and import
jobs; the ability to detach from and reattach to long-running jobs; the ability to
estimate how much space an export job would consume; support for export and
import operations over the network; and support for fine-grained object selection,
based upon objects and objects types.

Parallel Data Pump Export and Import The new Data Pump Export and Import
utilities can each be run in parallel, resulting in better performance in loading and
unloading data and metadata.

SQL*Loader Direct Path Load Support for ROWID Datatype This feature produces
faster SQL*Loader load times for tables containing ROWID columns.

SQL*Loader Direct Path Load Support for VARRAY Datatype This feature
produces faster SQL*Loader load times for tables containing VARRAY columns.



SQL*Loader Direct Path Load Support for XMLType Tables This feature results in
faster SQL*Loader load times for XMLType data in schema-based XMLType tables.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database Utilities for information on the new Data
Pump Export and Import utilities as well as information on
external tables and SQL*Loader direct-path support for ROWID,
VARRAY, and XMLType datatypes
s Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide and PL/SQL Packages and
Types Reference for information on asynchronous data change
capture
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on MERGE
enhancements
s Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide for information on
asynchronous change data capture
cross-platform transportable tablespaces
s Oracle10i Database Concepts for more information about external
tables, data pump export and import, and other utilities

SQL Support for Analytic Applications
This new release of the Oracle database introduces interrow calculations by way of
new SQL clauses, which add support for symbolic cell addressing and automatic
and custom formulas. These new capabilities make it easy to build models and
perform complex calculations without needing to code multiple joins and union
clauses, which can soon become unwieldy. In addition to query operations, INSERT,
UPDATE, and MERGE operations are also supported by the new capabilities, enabling
users to build persistent models and forecasts. In addition to these new, powerful
SQL capabilities, there are improvements in other areas of SQL analytics capabilities
as well.

Grouped Table Outer Join This extension to the ANSI join syntax improves
performance and simpliﬁes SQL queries for time-based calculations.

Increased Number of Aggregates per Query There is no longer a limitation on the
number or size of aggregations in a single SQL statement.



Upsert Through SQL Model Calculations The SQL Model clause supports upsert
operations, enabling easy INSERT and UPDATE of calculated values for building
business models such as forecasts and budgets.

SQL Model Clause Queries and subqueries can include new syntax that enables
highly expressive computations using sets of interrelated formulas. The feature
provides a building block for complex calculations such as forecasts and budgets.
With the Model clause, relational tables are treated as n-dimensional arrays and
inter-row references can be speciﬁed without SQL joins and unions.

Summary Management OLAP Query Performance Improvements Query rewrite
enhancements for OLAP queries enable greater ﬂexibility in creating materialized
views in two ways. First, users have more choice about the fraction of the data that
is preaggregated. Second, users have more choice about the number of materialized
views in which the preaggregated data is stored.

Summary Management - Enhanced Partition-aware Materialized View Refresh
This feature extends the materialized view refresh functionality by optimizing
refresh of materialized views that are partitioned on a column with a functional
dependency on the partitioning columns of the underlying table(s).

Summary Management - EXPLAIN PLAN Shows Materialized View Access The
EXPLAIN PLAN statement now indicates that a materialized view was accessed or
used by query rewrite, instead of showing only table access.

Summary Management - Enhanced Dimensions You can now specify a name for
an attribute of a dimension, and you can display the structure of a dimension using
the DESCRIBE_DIMENSION API.

Summary Management - Nested Materialized View Refresh Materialized view
refresh has been extended so that you can now refresh all the materialized views in
a nested materialized view.

Summary Management - Enhanced PCT Refresh Partition change tracking (PCT)
refresh now supports list partitioning and ROWID, when it is used as a partition
marker. It also performs TRUNCATE operations when appropriate.

Summary Management - Query Rewrite Uses Multiple Materialized Views Query
rewrite can now use more than one materialized view. As a result, more queries are
now eligible for query rewrite and are likely to experience improved query
response time.



See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on grouped
table outer joins and SQL model calculations
s Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide for information on summary
management as well as information on grouped table outer
joins, SQL model calculations, and upsert functionality

OLAP Support for Analytic Applications
This release contains support for new OLAP capabilities using the built-in
analytical workspaces of the Oracle database. New PL/SQL and XML-based
interfaces are provided for the creation of workspaces based on the cubes and
dimensions defined in the OLAP catalog in the database. Measures and calculations
can also be similarly defined and created. These new interfaces are used directly or
by way of Oracle Enterprise Manager to define and build analytical workspaces,
removing the need for the user to learn OLAP DML commands. New cross-tabular
analysis capabilities are also provided, supporting the aggregate of attributes within
a dimension, such as color by size within a product dimensions. The release
contains significant focus on performance enhancements. New parallel capabilities
are provided for AGGREGATE and SQL IMPORT operations, making it much faster to
load and materialize the analytical workspaces from relational information.

PL/SQL Creation of Analytic Workspaces A new PL/SQL interface uses Oracle
Enterprise Manager to build analytic workspaces based on Cubes and Dimensions
as defined in the OLAP catalog. SQL-oriented developers no longer need to learn
and use OLAP DML commands to build analytic workspaces.

Intra-Dimensional (Attribute) Aggregation The OLAP AGGREGATE command now
provides support for cross-tabular analysis.

Enhanced Composite Dimensions Indexing New indexing techniques for
COMPOSITE dimensions in analytic workspaces result in better query performance
in cases with many dimensions and sparse data.

Complete Analytical Workspace Management Analytic workspace management
tools in Oracle Enterprise Manager provide a graphical user interface for creating
and refreshing multidimensional datatypes in analytic workspaces without the
need for programming.



Multi-Writer Support Different users or sessions can now attach different
multidimensional datatypes within the same analytic workspace. This significantly
simplifies application development in cases where multiple users must write to the
same analytic workspaces.

XML Interface for Analytic Workspace The XML interface to analytic workspaces
eliminates the need for application developers to learn OLAP DML syntax in order
to build and add analytic content to analytic workspaces.

Data Mining Support for Analytic Applications
Data mining operations are enhanced in this release. There are improvements in the
data preprocessing and automated binning capabilities (which support outlier and
missing value accounting and dynamic discretization), new attribute importance
algorithms (Mutual Information and Pearson Correlation), Adaptive Bayes
Network enhancements, and better Model Seeker capabilities. Development and
deployment of data mining solutions are also improved, with provision of new
JSR-73 standard-based Java components that enable the easy specification of data
mining operations and the automatic generation of code to perform these
operations. In addition, Oracle Enterprise Manager can be used to monitor and
manage the Oracle Data Mining environment.

Frequent Itemsets This feature provides an efficient mechanism for computing
frequent itemsets, a common computation in data mining applications. Frequent
itemsets are typically used in market-basket analysis, to find which items are most
frequently purchased together.

Enhanced Data Preprocessing This feature improves the performance and ease of
use of essential data preprocessing tasks (transformations) required by algorithms.

PL/SQL API for Data Mining Expanding customer base for data mining by
providing a PL/SQL API in addition to the existing Java API.

Data Mining Rapid Application Development New JDeveloper components enable
graphical specification of Oracle Data Mining (ODM) objects and a graphic user
interface for interacting with key Java objects and processes in the ODM server.

Multi-User Access Control Oracle standard database security is now extended to
provide added security to Oracle Data Mining (ODM) user data and data mining
results.


Information Integration

Enhanced Adaptive Bayes Network The model building and scoring functionality
of Oracle Data Mining (ODM) has been enhanced, and the resulting models are
more accurate.

Complete Oracle Data Mining Management A graphical user interface is now
available for management of the Oracle Data Mining (ODM) task monitor, tasks,
and configuration table parameters.

See Also: PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on
the DBMS_FREQUENT_ITEMSET package

This release provides improved performance for information integration features
and applications. New features enable reference to remote stored procedures,
enabling sophisticated processing in the most efficient manner. Improvements to
OCI enable it to take advantage of fast networks and to run natively over TCP/IP,
boosting performance.

Transparent Gateway - Remote Stored Functions in SELECT Statements In
SELECT statements, you can now refer to remote functions stored in a non-Oracle
database.

Native Net Over Fast Interconnects When running client/server or server/server
communications over fast networks, Oracle can boost performance by using remote
direct memory access to move data between systems.

Native Net Over TCP/IP OCI can now run natively over TCP/IP, improving
performance of client/server and server/server communications.

Oracle Streams
This release provides functionality, performance, and management improvements
for Oracle Streams. New functionality includes downstream capture, which offloads
the capture and mining operations from the production database. Oracle Streams
has also been expanded to support LONG, LONG RAW, and NCLOB datatypes,
index-organized tables, and row subsetting during capture and propagation,
expanding the range of applications Streams can be used with. Support for negative
rules makes it easier to specify complex subscriptions. Other manageability
improvements include better monitoring, additional views, improved diagnostics,
and better error handling and cleanup operations. Performance has also been tuned



to improve most operations. Oracle Streams also offers two new options for
instantiation, using RMAN and transportable tablespaces. Finally, this release
extends support for the Messaging Gateway (MGW).

JMS 1.3-Compliant JDBC - Thin Driver Support This feature provides a
J2EE-compatible JMS provider regardless of your choice of Oracle JDBC drivers.
You can now use the JDBC thin driver.

OJMS Queue and Topic Unification Support OJMS (AQ/JMS) now supports
Domain Unification as it is specified in the JMS 1.1 Specification. Within one
transacted session, both the point-to-point and pub-sub domains are supported. As
a result, OJMS applications can now send a message to a queue and receive a
message from a topic within one transacted session. OJMS also now supports
Streams AQ batch enqueue and dequeue.

Oracle Messaging Gateway - MQSeries JMS Interface This feature supports
integration of Advanced Queuing with the MQSeries JMS interface.

Oracle Messaging Gateway - OJMS (AQ/JMS) Interface This feature supports
integration with the Advanced Queuing OJMS interface.

Oracle Messaging Gateway - Tibco/Rendezvous Java Interface This feature
supports integration of Advanced Queuing with the Tibco/Rv messaging system
through its Java interface.

Streams - Batch Enqueue/Dequeue You can now enqueue or dequeue an array of
messages to a single queue. The messages all share the same enqueue or dequeue
options, but each message in the array can have different message properties.

Advanced Replication to Streams Migration Tool This tool lets you migrate easily
from Advanced Replication to Streams.

Multimaster Replication Multimaster replication enables multiple sites, acting as
equal peers, to manage groups of replicated database objects. Each site in a
multimaster replication environment is a master site, and each site communicates
with the other master sites. The replicated objects must be identical at each site, and
Oracle database servers operating as master sites in a multimaster environment
automatically work to converge the data of all table replicas and to ensure global
transaction consistency and data integrity.



Materialized View Replication Materialized view replication enables a replica of a
target master from a single point in time. Such a replica is called a materialized
view. The master can be either a master table at a master site or a master
materialized view at a materialized view site. Materialized views are updated from
one or more masters through individual batch updates, known as a refreshes, from
a single master site or master materialized view site. A materialized view may be
updatable or read-only, and a materialized view may be an exact replica of its
master or it may contain a subset of the data in its target master.

Streams - Support Delete Cascade Operations Streams now properly replicates
tables with ON DELETE CASCADE constraints.

Streams - Precommit Handlers You can use a new type of apply handler called a
precommit handler to record information about commits processed by an apply
process.

Streams - Additional Streams Datatype and IOT Support You can now use Oracle
Streams to capture and apply changes to index-organized tables (IOTs) and to LONG
and NCLOB datatypes.

Streams - Row Subsetting During Capture and Propagation Streams can now
automatically subset rows between subset databases without having to send
unnecessary data to destination databases.

Streams - Access to Additional LCR Attributes You now have access to additional
LCR attributes, row_id, serial#, session#, thread#, tx_name, and username, for use
in your custom procedures, transformations, and rule conditions.

Streams - Descending and Function-Based Index Support You can now use
Streams with descending and function-based indexes.

Streams - Negative Rules You can now write rules which, if true, will cause the
subscription to be false, simplifying the creation of sophisticated rules.

Streams - Enqueue Handler It is no longer necessary to write an apply handler
that implicitly dequeues a logical change record (LCR) from the buffered queue and
then explicitly enqueues the LCR into the persistent queue. A new name-value pair
for the action context of an apply rule lets you specify the queue into which to move
an LCR. You can optionally apply the LCR as it is reenqueued.



Streams - Rules Engine - Easy Rules Engine Transformation Management A new
function in the DBMS_STREAMS_ADM package makes it easier to set the
transformation function name for a rule.

Streams - Access to client information during processing You can use new
functions to get name and type information about the Streams client processing an
LCR, useful for writing more intelligent rules, transformations, apply handlers and
error handlers.

Streams - Views to Monitor Instantiation Data New data dictionary views make it
easier for you to ensure that Streams is operating and to discover and resolve any
issues that may arise.

Streams - Instantiation Through Transportable Tablespaces Streams replicas can
now be instantiated through transportable tablespaces as well as Import/Export,
providing faster instantiation of a Streams replica at a remote site.

Streams - Clean Up Rules Sets Some Streams packaged procedures have been
enhanced to let you remove unnecessary rule sets, preventing performance
degradation and confusion.

Streams - Easier Transformation Monitoring A new data dictionary view makes it
easier to monitor transformation functions.

Streams - Message notification You can now easily configure email, http, and
PL/SQL message notifications for a Streams messaging client. Notifications
eliminate the need for clients to block or poll for new messages.

Streams - High-Level API for Message Queuing Streams now includes a
simplified API for enqueue and dequeue operations into and from an AnyData
queue.

Streams - Instantiation Through RMAN Streams replicas can now be instantiated
by way of RMAN, in addition to Import/Export, providing faster instantiation of a
Streams replica at a remote site.

Streams - New APIs to Grant Privileges You can now grant privileges through an
API, which makes it easier in a Streams environment to grant only those privileges
that are necessary.



Streams - Downstream Capture Streams can now perform capture from log ﬁles
on a system other than the source database. This can reduce the overhead on the
source system and provide better disaster protection. In a data warehousing
environment it eliminates the need to access the production OLTP system.

Improved Streams RAC Support When used in a Real Application Clusters (RAC)
environment, Streams now supports hot mining, can automatically restart processes
after failover, and can enable supplemental logging on all instances in one
command, reducing operational latency and DBA workload.

Streams - Set Instantiation SCN at Apply Site Streams packaged procedures have
been enhanced to set the instantiation system change number (SCN) for all table
objects owned by a schema, eliminating the need to set the instantiation SCN for
each object individually.

Streams - Clean Up LogMiner Information A new DBMS_CAPTURE procedure lets
you remove old LogMiner information. This cleanup capability can prevent
performance degradation and improve manageability by eliminating clutter.

Streams - Improved Capture and Apply Error Handling Streams now writes
warnings during some error conditions instead of stopping the capture and apply.

Streams - Allocate memory from Streams Pool You can now allocate memory
from the new Streams pool, giving DBA's more control over memory usage by
Streams.

Streams - Buffer queue monitoring Streams provides new view to monitor
statistics on a Streams buffered queue.

Streams - Expose Commit Order of Changes You can now implement record
keeping and order transactions when LCRs are applied by external applications
rather than by the Streams apply process.

OCCI Support for Streams AnyData Queues C++ developers can now use the
OCCI API to enqueue and dequeue to and from Streams and AnyData queues.

Streams - Enhanced Capture and Apply Performance Streams change capture
and apply processes have been improved to handle greater workloads.



Streams - Performance Enhancements for AnyData Queues, Rules, and
Propagation Streams AnyData queue operations, rules evaluation, and
propagation have been improved to handle greater workloads.

Rules Engine - Rules Enhancements This feature reduces the time you need to
spend creating and managing rules used by Streams and other applications. You
can now reload rules rather than re-creating them, and additional views and
statistics are provided for tuning purposes.

See Also:
s Oracle Streams Replication Administrator's Guide for information
on migration from Advanced Replication to Streams,
supplemental logging, and the following instantiation
enhancements: RMAN, SCN at the apply site, and
transportable tablespaces
s Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration for information on
the enqueue handler, rules enhancements, negative rules, the
rules engine, row migration, monitoring enhancements for
transformations, downstream capture, and new APIs for
granting privileges
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on message
queuing and LogMiner information

The Scheduler
This release includes a new database scheduler to provide enterprise scheduling
functionality. The Scheduler gives administrators the ability to schedule a job to run
at a particular date and time. It also provides the ability to create libraries of the
Scheduler objects, thus enabling existing objects to be shared by other users. It also
enables scarce computing resources to be allocated appropriately among competing
jobs, thus aligning job processing with the service-level needs of the business. Jobs
that share common characteristics and behavior can be grouped into larger entities,
called job classes, which can be prioritized by controlling the system resources
allocated to each. For ﬁner control, the prioritization among the job classes can also
be based on a schedule.

Scheduler - Core Scheduler Features The Scheduler integrates many job
scheduling capabilities, such as time-based job execution, in one tool. It supports
PL/SQL stored procedures and anonymous blocks, C functions, and Java stored



procedures by way of callouts and operating system scripts. It also supports
distributed database scheduling.

Scheduler - Usability and Manageability The Scheduler has been designed to be
easy to use. It supports user-defined object names, has easy time specification
syntax, and has defaults for all the API arguments. Schedules are validated, and
both jobs and schedules can be saved in a library for reuse.

Scheduler - Recovery The Scheduler recovers back to a transactionally consistent
state from a system or slave process crash. Jobs and windows that would have
started had the system not crashed will be started automatically, so no manual
intervention is required.

Scheduler - Monitoring A job undergoes multiple states from its creation to its
completion. All Scheduler activity is logged, and you can easily track information
such as the status of the job and the time to completion of the job. This information
is stored in views and can be easily queried using Enterprise Manager or a SQL
query.

Scheduler - Job Processing The Scheduler enables job processing in a way that
models your business requirements. It lets limited computing resources be allocated
appropriately among competing jobs, thus aligning job processing with your
business needs. You can group jobs that share common characteristics and behavior
into larger entities called job classes. You can prioritize among the classes by
controlling the resources allocated to each class. This ensures that your critical jobs
have priority and have enough resources to complete. You can also prioritize jobs
within a job class. The Scheduler lets you change the prioritization based on a
schedule. Because the definition of a critical job can change across time, the
Scheduler lets you change the prioritization among your jobs over time.

Scheduler - Support for Jobs in a Clustered Environment The Scheduler fully
supports execution of jobs in a clustered environment. To balance the load on your
system and for better performance, you can also specify the service where you want
a job to run.

Scheduler - ILMS Support This feature improves the performance of jobs
involving PL/SQL stored procedures, Java stored procedures, and C functions by
skipping the parse phase.


Application Development

Scheduler - Redo Minimization This feature reduces the amount of Scheduler
information that is written to disk. It is very beneficial for polling type jobs, which
would otherwise require a huge amount of information to be written to disk.

Scheduler - Increased Throughput Improved job coordinator algorithms have
increased the number of Scheduler jobs that can be executed per hour.

Scheduler - Dynamic Slave Pool The slave pool grows and shrinks dynamically
depending on demand, thus reducing the resource use and increasing the number
of jobs that can be executed.

Improvements have been provided to simplify development of high-performance,
global applications in standard languages.

Globalization and Unicode
To aid development of global applications, this release provides a Globalization
Development Kit (GDK) that includes comprehensive programming APIs, tools,
and documentation that address many of the design, development, and deployment
issues encountered while creating global applications. The Oracle NLS definition
files (language, territory, linguistic sort, and character set) also become platform
independent, reducing the need to regenerate new binary files on each platform of
developers using these capabilities. In addition, the database provides expanded
locale coverage with support for new languages and territories, and support for
Unicode 3.2.

Globalization Development Kit The Oracle Globalization Development Kit (GDK)
is a toolkit that simplifies the development process and reduces the cost of
developing Internet applications that will be used to support a global environment.
This release of the GDK includes comprehensive programming APIs (Java and
PL/SQL), multilingual test data, code samples, and documentation that address
many of the design, development, and deployment issues encountered while
creating global applications. The key component of the GDK is the Oracle
Globalization Services (OGS). OGS is a set of Java and PL/SQL APIs that provide
Oracle application developers with the framework to develop globalized Internet
applications using the best globalization practices and features designed by Oracle.

Enhanced Character Set Scanner The Character Set Scanner has been enhanced
to support the scanning of nested tables and character semantics objects. The



database scan summary report now provides additional information on the source
database along with statistics on possible size expansion.

CLOB and NCLOB Implicit Conversions This feature provides implicit conversion
between CLOB and NCLOB datatypes. Global internet applications that support
multiple national language character sets no longer require development and
deployment of explicit function calls to achieve this conversion.

Expanded Locale Coverage This feature adds new territories and languages, and
augments existing definition files with additional information.

Unicode 3.2 Support This feature provides support for the latest Unicode
standard, Unicode 3.2, by adding new Unicode code points, character
classifications, and mapping information to existing Unicode character sets.

See Also:
s Oracle10i Database Globalization Support Guide for information
on the Globalization Development Kit
on Unicode support, as well as on Character Set Scanner and
Converter enhancements and expanded locale coverage
s PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for information on the
UTL_ENCODE, UTL_I18N, and UTL_LMS packages, which are
part of the Globalization Development Kit

SQL Language Improvements
To aid migration from other database systems, this release provides support for
case-insensitive queries and sorts, enabling users to search and sort their data
regardless of the casing and accent of the characters. Regular expressions are also
supported in SQL and PL/SQL, enabling developers to write one-line queries that
previously would have taken multiple lines of SQL code. This POSIX-compliant
implementation also supports multilingual queries and is locale sensitive. A new
capability, Oracle Expression Filter, is also supported in this release. Oracle
Expression Filter provides an Expression datatype and an EVALUATE SQL operator.
It enables application developers to manage and evaluate conditional expressions
that describe users' interests in data. Other SQL improvements include new
CONNECT BY processing that supports ancestor-descendant pairs, and new
collection performance and type evolution enhancements.



Case-Insensitive and Accent-Insensitive Query and Sort Oracle provides
linguistic sorts and queries that use information about base letter, accents, and case
to sort character strings. Now you can also specify a sort or query on the base letters
only (accent insensitive) or on the base letter and the accents (case insensitive).

Enhanced Collections Collection types have been enhanced to provide better
performance and greater functionality. You can now alter the size of a VARRAY type
object, use varrays in temporary tables, and specify different tablespaces for
different columns of nested table type.

Enhanced CONNECT BY Support Additions to the CONNECT BY clause enhance
queries of hierarchical data in the following ways: All ancestor-dependent pairs can
be returned (not just parent-child pairs); a new pseudocolumn specifies whether or
not a given node is a leaf of a hierarchy; a cycle in a hierarchy triggers an error
message with information about the rows involved in the cycle; and the CONNECT
BY clause is now supported for simple subqueries.

Expression Filter The Expression Filter feature enables application developers to
manage and evaluate conditional expressions that describe users' interests in data.
The following are part of the Expression Filter feature: an Expression datatype, a
SQL EVALUATE operator, and an index (Enterprise Edition only).

SQL Regular Expressions This release supports POSIX-compliant regular
expressions to enhance search and replace capability in programming environments
such as Unix and Java. In SQL, this new functionality is implemented through new
functions that are regular expression extensions to existing functions such as LIKE,
REPLACE, and INSTR. This implementation supports multilingual queries and is
locale sensitive.

Row Timestamp A new pseudocolumn consisting of the committed timestamp or
SCN provides applications and users the ability to efficiently implement optimistic
locking. Until now, when posting updates to the database, applications had to read
in all column values or user-specified indicator columns, compare them with those
previously fetched, and update those with identical values. With this feature, only
the row SCN needs to be retrieved and compared to verify that the row has not
changed from the time of the select to the update.



See Also:
s Oracle10i Database SQL Reference for information on Oracle
regular expression support, case- and accent-insensitive
sorting, and hierarchical query enhancements
s Oracle10i Database Globalization Support Guide and Oracle10i
Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals for information on
Oracle regular expression support
on case- and accent-insensitive sorting
s Oracle10i Database Application Developer’s Guide - Expression
Filter and Oracle10i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals
for information on Oracle Expression Filter

PL/SQL Improvements
This release contains significant PL/SQL enhancements, both for the application
end-user and for the application developer. It introduces a brand-new optimizing
compiler which generates faster code, and it exposes improvements in Native
PL/SQL Compilation, in particular adding full support for RAC. A number of
powerful new language features are added (for example support for ANSI syntax
for multiset operations on nested tables, for regular expressions and for IEEE
floating point arithmetic). New utility packages are added for data compression and
to provide a simple API for sending email.

Sparse Table Bulk Binds This feature extends the usefulness and efficiency of the
FORALL bulk DML syntax by allowing the bound array to be sparse, or by allowing
a second array to denote a sparse subset in the bound array.

Collection Set Operations SQL introduces support for ANSI compliant multiset
operations (for example, equality, union, and intersect). Oracle's implementation of
the multiset is the nested table, which since its introduction has been available also
as a PL/SQL datatype. The new, compact syntax allows efficient implementation of
common operations on collections which would otherwise require tedious coding
and would result in a less efficient implementation, and these benefits are also
brought to PL/SQL programs. In addition, support is now provided for using a
collection in the semantic role of an IN list.

Database Storage of PL/SQL Native Compilation Units The output of PL/SQL
native compilation is now stored in the database as BLOB data. This simplifies



backup procedures in a native PL/SQL environment. The performance benefits of
PL/SQL native compilation are now available in a Real Application Clusters (RAC)
configuration. The usability of the configuration steps has been improved.

Fine-Grained Debug Privileges Debugging privileges can now be granted on a
per-program-unit basis. As a result, application developers can debug appropriate
code without having access to data they should not see or change.

Regular Expressions The new SQL builtins for POSIX-compliant regular
expressions are also available in a pure PL/SQL setting. This allows the compact
and efficient implementation of a new class of algorithms as stored database
procedures.

User-Specified Quoting Character You can now choose any convenient delimiter
and define it dynamically as the quoting character, resulting in increased usability
for application developers and DBAs.

UTL_COMPRESS Package This new package delivers the familiar functionality of
zip and unzip utilities in a PL/SQL environment. It lets you compress and
uncompress a RAW bytestream, and guarantees the exact original bytestream after
the round trip.

UTL_MAIL Package This package makes it possible for a PL/SQL programmer to
send programmatically composed e-mails by way of a PL/SQL API. It requires only
the normal mental model of a user of the GUI email client, rather than an
understanding of the underlying protocol (SMTP) features.

Compile-Time Warnings This feature, which is well-known in other programming
languages is now introduced for PL/SQL. Constructs that are legal, but are in some
sense dubious, will now optionally raise a compilation warning. Warnings can be
turned on or off individually or by category. For example, a particular warning in
the performance category will be raised when an opportunity is detected to
improve the efficiency of parameter passing by using different syntax.

DBMS_PROFILER Improvements This package now helps you better measure the
performance characteristics of your PL/SQL programs. It enables profiling of
natively compiled PL/SQL program units, removes correspondence problems
between reported and actual source code line numbers, and flushes profile data to
an Oracle table faster at the end of the profiling run.



PL/SQL Optimizing Compiler This release replaces the PL/SQL compiler with a
completely new version that provides a framework for and support of many
optimizations. The result is improved performance, especially for computationally
intensive PL/SQL programs.

See Also: PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

Java VM, JDBC, SQLJ, and Web Services

JDBC
This release offers new features to complete Oracle drivers support for standard
JDBC 3.0, including for the DATALINK datatype and the REF interface, Connector
Architecture Resource Adapters, and connection caching; as well as an early
implementation of JDBC 3.0 Web RowSet (JSR-114). In addition, new native
database types support, varray enhancements, LONG-to-LOB conversions, support
for the INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND datatype. Finally, significant performance
improvements, compatible type-2 and type-4 JDBC drivers enable you to use
different flavors of JDBC drivers for development and deployment including
support for RAC/HA, support for PL/SQL index tables, and passing, retrieving,
and registering parameters by name.

JDBC Thin Driver PL/SQL Index Table This feature lets you send and receive
PL/SQL tables in the thin driver. For example, you can exchange Java collections
with PL/SQL collections.

JDBC 3.0 Named Parameter This feature enables JDBC applications to pass
parameters by name with CallableStatement and to register and retrieve output
parameters by name.

JDBC IEEE DOUBLE and FLOAT Datatypes The new SQL floating-point number
datatypes are supported in JDBC, enabling Java/J2EE applications using JDBC to
perform faster arithmetic calculations without loss of information and with reduced
storage.

JDBC INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND JDBC applications can now utilize the
database INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND datatype for improved time management.

JDBC LONG to LOB Conversion This feature improves JDBC application
portability by enabling the conversion of CLOB and BLOB data so that it is



compatible with LONG, RAW, and LONG RAW, and by simplifying CLOB and
BLOB manipulation in JDBC applications.

JDBC 3.0 J2EE Connector Architecture Resource Adapter The Oracle JDBC
driver can now function as a JCA-compliant resource adapter for Oracle databases,
enabling improved pluggability, packaging, and deployment.

JDBC 3.0 DATALINK Datatype and Ref Interface This feature enables distributed
JDBC applications to retrieve and store references to external data, obtain
DATALINK-related metadata information, and map into Java a reference to a SQL
structured type value in the database.

JDBC Web RowSet This feature enables disconnected applications such as Web
Services clients or J2EE components to fetch a collection of rows from database
tables (or other data sources) in XML format and to scroll through, update locally,
and synchronize the rows back to the data source.

Implicit JDBC 3.0 Connection Caching This feature provides JDBC applications
with new, faster, simplified connection caching for DataSource. Java/J2EE
applications will benefit from transparent access to the cache, support for multiple
users, and the ability to request connections based on user-defined profiles.

JDBC Connection Cache Manager The Connection Cache Manager APIs let
middle-tier (application servers and packaged applications frameworks) create,
manage, and maintain caches; bind connections in caches to DataSources, configure
and search connections based on specified profile.

RAC/HA Fast JDBC Connection Failover This features enables transparent and
fast connection failover under different High Availability (HA) configurations (both
RAC and non-RAC). Middle-tier Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) proactively
reestablishes connections to the up instance or service without waiting for an
application to issue a connection request.

Enhanced JDBC VARRAY Support Aggregation and set operations are now
available to data mining and JDBC applications.

SQLJ
In this release, SQLJ has been expanded to support result set iterators in JSPs, and
other SQLJ ISO and JDBC 3.0 features. This enables you to write applications faster
and simplified JDBC applications.



SQLJ ISO and JDBC 3.0 Features This feature enhances Oracle JDBC and
SQLJ-ISO standard compliance by providing expanded support for SQLJ update
and delete statements, exposing JDBC updatable result sets to SQLJ, and exposing
JDBC 3.0 named parameters of stored procedures and functions to SQLJ.

SQLJ Result Set Iterator in JSPs Java Stored Procedures can now return SQLJ
result set iterators as Ref Cursors. This feature facilitates result set management for
database-side SQLJ applications.

Java in the Database
This release offers faster J2SE, JDBC, SQLJ, JMS and JAI Applications deployment
directly in the database. You can reuse Standard and Third Party Java Class libraries
directly in the database for complex manipulation or transformation of Relational,
XML, Text, Spatial, and MultiMedia data.

OracleJVM J2SE 1.4.x Compatibility This feature provides IPv6 support and
support for channels, nonblocking I/O locks, and buffers. Java-client applications
that are J2SE 1.4.x compatible can now be moved seamlessly into OracleJVM as Java
Stored Procedures. New java libraries can be loaded by using new data-driven
functionalities in the database.

OracleJVM: Native Java Interface This feature provides simplified application
integration. It enables client-side and middle-tier Java applications to invoke Java
directly in the database without the need for a PL/SQL wrapper.

Database Web Services
This release’s Database Web services work in two directions: database as service
provider, that is, calling from the outside in, which lets client applications access the
database via Web services mechanisms; and database as service consumer, that is,
calling from the inside out, which lets a SQL query or an application module in a
database session consume an external Web Service.

SQL Query Web Services Middle-tier applications, desktop applications, and
tools can search, retrieve, and extract business data (relational, XML, text, or spatial)
from the database using Web Services mechanisms. As a result, you can implement
data-bound services, such as predefined warehousing queries, catalog search
queries, and Map/GIS services, and expose them to other applications by reusing
predefined SQL queries.



DML Web Services This feature makes it possible to implement Web Services as
single or grouped database INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations.

SOAP Client for Database Web Services This feature lets the database consume
external Web Services. As a result, Java classes in the database as well as SQL
statements, PL/SQL packages, triggers, table functions, and so on can call out to the
external Web Services.

Java-in-Database Web Services This feature renders Java classes deployed in the
database as Web Services. Java classes implementing such data-related services can
be migrated between the middle tier and the database. Furthermore, Java
portability results in database independence.

Enhanced PL/SQL Web Services This feature improves PL/SQL Web Services by
supporting BOOLEAN, CLOB, BLOB, and PL/SQL types, enabling you to use most
of your existing PL/SQL packages as Web Services.

Web Services Data Source This feature renders the output resulting from external
Web Services calls as regular SQL output, which can then be used in the FROM
clause of a SQL query. SQL functions can be applied to WHERE clauses before
returning the query results. This conversion of external Web Services into SQL data
sources is a building block of enterprise data integration.

Consuming External Web Services from SQL and PL/SQL Any SQL-enabled tool
or application can transparently and easily consume dynamic data from external
web services.

Consuming External Web Services from Database using Java Easy-to-use
interface for calling-out web services. Java classes running in the database can
simply and directly invoke external web services, using their Java proxy, insulating
developers from low-level SOAP programming.

Database Centric Application Environment
New in this release is a declarative development framework for creating
database-centric web applications. Using only an HTML browser, developers can
quickly assemble sophisticated and fast web applications that leverage all the
database capabilities.

SQL Workshop SQL Workshop enables you to build database objects and run SQL
statements and SQL scripts from a web browser. In addition, it enables you to store



and retrieve data, execute SQL commands, and perform many additional tasks to
speed and simplify development.

Data Workshop Data Workshop helps you load data into and extract data from the
database. You can populate database tables from various data sources, such as
Excel. Data Workshop also provides a data generator to help you generate your
own data.

Flow Builder Flow Builder in HTML DB enables you to build database-centric
interactive web applications. Flow Builder helps you assemble an HTML user
interface on top of database objects such as tables and procedures. Once your
application is assembled, the engine takes care of rendering your application, using
templates and UI elements that you specify. It also handles all the processing,
validation, and branching that your application needs.

XML Application Development
To provide better support for standards-based access to XML, this release provides
SQL/XML Standard compliance. Applications can use standard SQL/XML
operators to generate complex XML documents from SQL queries and to store XML
documents. The XML parser is also extended to support the updated and new W3C
XML standards. There have also been major improvements in XML processing
performance. The XML Developer's Kit (XDK) libraries and interfaces in Java, C,
and C++ all transparently support the database XMLType, increasing throughput
and scalability without high resource and processing costs. Additionally, the
architecture has been redesigned using a pipeline process model and SAX to
increase performance while reducing resources.

SQL/XML Standard Compliance SQL/XML is a new part (Part 14) of the SQL
standard that provides interoperability between SQL and XML. Applications can
now use SQL/XML operators to generate complex XML documents from SQL
queries and to store XML documents in relational tables.

XML DB LDAP Access Performance This release provides improved performance
for large-scale enterprises using Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for access control.

XML DB Schema Evolution This feature supports the evolution of XML schemas
as your business requirements change.



XML Processing Performance Improvements XDK libraries and interfaces in Java,
C, and C++ now support XMLType data in the database, thus increasing
throughput and scalability without high resource and processing costs.

XML Transformation Performance Improvements in C/C++ The C XSLT Processor
is now over 100% more efficient in the XSL transformation of XML, yielding huge
benefits in performance and scalability of XML-enabled applications and the XML
database.

XML DB Internationalization The Oracle XML database and the Oracle XML
database repository now support multibyte character sets and the use of multiple
client characters sets. You can now set your client character set different from the
database character set. Appropriate conversion will take place to present the XML
data in the character set of the client. In addition, using FTP or HTTP, you can
specify multibyte characters in the directory, filename, or URL, and you can transfer
or receive data encoded in a different character set from the database. Oracle XML
DB can handle all popular XML character encodings as long as the database
character set supports characters in use. For full support of all valid XML
characters, use UTF-8 as your database character set.

Extended XML Standard Support in C/C++ You can use the Oracle XDK as an
XML platform because of its extensive and conforming support of the Internet XML
Standards. This feature lets you develop and deploy on a platform that does not
lock you into proprietary interfaces. It also implements DOM Level 2 Range and
Traversal to improve support for DOM.

Extended XML Standard Support in Java You can use the Oracle XDK as an XML
platform because of its extensive and conforming support of the Internet XML
Standards. This feature lets you develop and deploy on a platform that does not
lock you into proprietary interfaces. It also implements JSR-031 Java Bindings
(enhanced class generator), which provide easy XML access for Java development.

XML Transformation and Querying Performance Improvements in Java To help
speed searches on XML documents, this release adds support for indexing XML
documents based on the XMLSchema. It also adds support for transforming XML
files using SAX-based streaming of XML or partially built DOM trees. This results in
dramatic increases in scalability and performance for all of the Oracle XML
infrastructure and XML-enabled applications, including Discoverer, JDeveloper,
EJBs, and JSPs.



XML DB XMLType View Performance Query rewrite is now supported for
XMLType views. This makes XMLType views easier to use and more like traditional
relational views, and reduces the complexity of applications that use them.

See Also: Oracle XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide for
information on the XSLT compiler and the XSLT virtual machine,
Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide, and Oracle XML API Reference

Other APIs and Precompilers
To facilitate C++ development, the Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI) has also been
improved in this release, with support for UTF16 character data and other
globalization capabilities. In addition, performance has been improved with
internal object management algorithms, SQL statement caching, and stateless
connection pooling. Distributed transaction capabilities are supported in OCCI with
XA support in the interface.

Easy OCI/JDBC Install - 6546 Applications that use OCI, including the type-2
JDBC driver, can now easily install only the required files instead of installing and
configuring the entire Oracle client; resulting in simplified deployment and smaller
memory footprint.

OCCI Globalization Support Globalization support for OCCI users enables them
to bind and define multibyte and UTF-16 character data and to use strings in any
character set.

OCCI Stateless Connection Pooling Formerly, every time a connection was
chosen, it was authenticated with the server. In stateless connection pooling, a
connection is picked up and given to the user without having to do a server
round-trip for authentication.

OCCI Performance Improvements OCCI applications now experience improved
performance in the creation and update of object instances as well as fetch, delete,
and pickle and unpickle operations.

OCCI Statement Caching By caching the cursors containing parsed SQL and
associated data structures, this feature provides improved performance for
statements that are reused. You can cache statements for a particular connection and
enable or disable caching for a connection. You can also tag an individual statement
so it can subsequently be retrieved from the cache.


Content Management

OCCI XA Support C++ developers using OCCI are now able to use distributed
transactions options as provided by an XA-compliant database.

Preserved User Code in OTT-Generated Classes Applications using Oracle types
need to use the Oracle Type Translator (OTT) to generate classes for the types stored
in the database. Application developers often must modify OTT-generated code to
handle application-speciﬁc requirements. OTT now preserves the user-added code
for use in subsequent calls to OTT.

See Also: Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide for information
on OCI installation

Content Management

Improved Multimedia Support
As larger and larger documents are stored and managed in content management
applications, the 4 GB restriction on LOBs stored in the database is removed in this
release, raising the limit to 8 to 128 terabytes. Standards-based access to image data
is also supported through the SQL Multimedia Still Image Standard (ISO/IEC
13249-5). The Java Advanced Imaging package used by interMedia for image
support has been upgraded to JAI 1.1.1_01, and additional image processing is now
supported. In addition, new audio and video media formats are supported,
including MPEG4 and MPEG2, with the associated automatic recognition and
extraction of metadata supported by these formats.

ISO/IEC 13249-5 SQL Multimedia Still Image Support This feature implements
Oracle interMedia compliance with ISO/IEC Still Image standards, enabling
application portability.

Unlimited-Size LOBs As large documents proliferate in content management
applications, the Oracle database has been enhanced to store large documents from
8 to 128 terabytes in size.

Java Advanced Imaging 1.1.1_01 Support Oracle supports the new release of the
Sun Microsystem Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) package, including the addition of
new operators for interMedia applications that use Oracle to store and process
image content.

Native Support for Additional Audio/Video Media Formats You no longer have to
write special code to parse MPEG2 and MPEG4 multimedia content. interMedia can


Content Management

now extract metadata from these formats and make it available for indexing and
querying.

See Also:
s Oracle interMedia Reference for information on ISO/IEC 13249-5
support, Java advanced imaging support, audio media formats,
and video media formats
s Oracle10i Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects for
information on unlimited-sized LOBs
s Oracle interMedia Annotator User's Guide and Reference for
information on MPEG2 and MPEG4 media formats

Improved Text Globalization Capabilities
For better handling of documents in a global environment, automatic discovery of
the language and character set of unknown documents is provided, as well as
support for new German spelling rules, Japanese adverb and verb stem indexing,
and additional Japanese and Chinese character sets.

Document Character Set and Language Detection This feature lets you determine
the character set and language, including Asian languages, of unknown documents.

New German Spelling Rules Support Transliteration spelling rules, as mandated
by the German government, are now supported, enabling queries against both the
old and new spellings of a word.

Chinese GB18030 Character Set Support This feature provides support for this
increasingly common Chinese character set.

Enhanced Japanese Language Support Japanese language support has been
enhanced to include adverb and verb stem indexing, a Japanese-speciﬁc fuzzy
machine, a customizable user dictionary, and full support for AL32UTF8.

Improved Text Manageability and Usability
To make it easier to develop text-enabled applications, a series of JDeveloper
Wizards are provided that enable the generation of catalogs and text-driven
applications. In addition, an HTML-based Thesaurus Manager is also provided.
Manageability of text documents in the database has also been improved: locally
partitioned text indexes can be created online, and documents can be inserted


Content Management

during index creation and rebuild. Document services, such as highlighting,
themes, and gists, no longer require the building of a text index, and a text
framework enables user-defined components to be plugged in while invoking these
document services.

Text Classification and Routing Oracle Text now supports content-based as well
as text-only routing of word processor format documents.

Text Wizard for JDeveloper JDeveloper now includes a Text application generator.

Catalog Wizard for JDeveloper JDeveloper now includes a catalog search
application generator.

Thesaurus Manager The Thesaurus Manager is an easy-to-use HTML-based
thesaurus management tool.

Classification Training Set Wizard for JDeveloper JDeveloper now includes a
classification training set application.

Progressive Text Query Relaxation This feature provides an easier way to query
in several dimensions.

Query Log Analysis This feature lets you customize search sites according to
actual end-user queries.

Indexless Document Services This feature lets you call document services
without a Text index.

This new configurable filter can understand multipart
Multipart MIME Filter
MIME-encoded documents and mail messages.

Mixed Section Indexing You can now index columns containing both XML and
HTML documents.

Highlighting for INPATH and HASPATH Operators This feature provides more
complete handling of XML paths.

Positional Operator An order position identifier for XML sections supports more
complete handling of XML path expressions.


Location Services

Improved Text Quality of Retrieval
The quality of retrieval of text searches has also been improved. Query log analysis
is supported, enabling searches to be customized based on the success of past user
queries, and a new progressive text query relaxation template enables multiple
queries, with relaxed restrictions if earlier queries fail.

Link Analysis A new algorithm boosts scores based upon popularity, and affords
better search ranking for Web pages and content.

NEAR-ACCUM Text Operator This Text operator combines the effects of proximity
(NEAR) and progressive relaxation (ACCUM) operations, increasing the quality of
search result sets, especially for passage-based queries.

Theme Proximity Searching This feature lets you use proximity (NEAR) with
theme queries for better relevance ranking.

Location Services
Oracle Spatial provides rich new location-based services capabilities. To store and
manage cadaster and land information systems, a topology data model is provided.
An open Georaster data format supports the speciﬁc image processing requirements
of GIS and remote sensing applications (for example, homeland security, energy,
defense, and land management). Spatial analytic functions are provided to meet the
requirements of business intelligence, CRM, and public sector applications.
Location service and land management applications can execute high volumes of
spatial distance queries faster by running in parallel on partitioned indexes.
Performance has also been enhanced for spatial index updates. These features are
integrated with Workspace Manager which enables users to group, isolate, and
implicitly version collections of edits for long transactions.

GeoRaster Support This feature provides an open data format for database
storage, management, and retrieval of raster data with a location reference or
geo-reference. It supports the speciﬁc image processing requirements of GIS and
remote sensing applications such as homeland security, energy, defense, and land
management.

Topology Data Model This feature provides an open data model to store and
manage topology, which is required for managing data in land information systems.
It provides APIs that support edit and update capabilities for managing parcel and


Location Services

linear feature data as well as a query model to efficiently relate spatial objects by
feature.

Spatial Analytic Functions New server-based spatial analysis capabilities include
classification, binning, association, and spatial correlation, all of which are essential
for business intelligence applications.

Network Data Model This feature provides an open data model to store and
manage networks in support of utility and transportation applications. Path
computations and network-traversal queries are supported, as well as
segment-level updates for network data by data providers.

Spatial Index Updates - Performance Improvements Spatial R-tree index update
time has been reduced by 40% or more, which is especially helpful for
location-based services and enterprise geographic information systems.

Parallel Spatial Queries Spatial queries can now run in parallel on partitioned
spatial indexes, improving the performance of within distance, nearest neighbor,
and relate queries. Performance scales with the number of CPUs used to execute a
query. This helps location service and land management applications, which need
to execute high volumes of spatial queries quickly.

OpenGIS Simple Features Specification Conformance This feature enables
third-party tools as well as GIS and location service applications to conform to the
OpenGIS interface standards for location-based services and geographic
information systems.

Enhanced Workspace Manager Usability Workspace Manager now supports
multiparent workspaces that let a child workspace merge with and refresh from
multiple parent workspaces. It also supports continually refreshed workspaces
anywhere in a workspace tree with optimistic locking, and enables other users in
the workspace tree to access versions locked in a workspace.

Workspace Manager Event Management You can now define workspace event
callbacks that associate application logic, such as business practices, with
Workspace Manager operations. Events exist for the following workspace
operations: create and delete savepoint; create, merge, remove, refresh, and rollback
workspace. User-defined event handlers can be written in PL/SQL or any other
language that can be wrapped in a PL/SQL procedure.


Database Overall

Enhanced Workspace Manager Database Support Workspace Manager now
supports UNIQUE constraints, SQL*Loader, materialized views, Virtual Private
Database, table statistics, and nested tables. Support has been enhanced for many
DDL operations and for finer grained import and export.

Database Overall

Utilities
The utilities that support the database have also been improved in this release, to
take advantage of the new capabilities, as well as address some common
requirements requested by customers.

SQL*Plus - SPOOL CREATE, REPLACE, and APPEND Options The SPOOL
command has been enhanced to include CREATE, REPLACE, and APPEND options.
These provide better control over output file creation and bring SPOOL syntax into
line with the SAVE and STORE commands.

SQL*Plus - DBMS_OUTPUT After SELECT SQL*Plus now displays any DBMS_
OUTPUT information generated as the result of a procedure or trigger in a SELECT
statement. This feature improves PL/SQL debugging and reporting capabilities.

SQL*Plus - Show Recycle Bin This features supports the new UNDROP
functionality by displaying the objects in the recycle bin that can be undropped.

SQL*Plus - SET SQLPROMPT Runtime Variable Substitution This feature lets you
identify the schema and server you are connected to. Substitution variables are now
dereferenced in the user prompt. New predefined variables exist for the username,
connection privilege, and current date.

SQL*Plus -COMPATIBILITY Command Line Option SQL*Plus now supports the
-C command line option. You can use this to set the initial value of the
SQLPLUSCOMPATIBILITY parameter, giving you more control over SQL*Plus
script behavior.

SQL*Plus - Run glogin.sql and login.sql After Each CONNECT The glogin.sql
and login.sql scripts can now be read after each CONNECT command, rather than
just when SQL*Plus is started, affording easy per-connection configuration.


Windows

iSQL*Plus Input Prompting User input is now permitted during the running of a
SQL script. This improved compatibility for SQL*Plus scripts provides more
flexibility for development and deployment of scripts.

Windows

.NET Support
This release provides further integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework by
exposing more Oracle advanced database functionality in an easy-to-use manner.
These improvements include native XML DB support and additional Oracle
datatype and PL/SQL support.

Oracle Objects for OLE Support for Oracle Datatypes Oracle Objects for OLE
(OO4O) now supports all of Oracle's timestamp (TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH
LOCAL TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE) and interval (INTERVAL DAY TO
SECOND, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH) datatypes. It has also added support for the
new optimized float and double datatypes in this release.

ODP.NET Support for Advanced Oracle Features The Oracle Data Provider for
.NET (ODP.NET) has been enhanced to support advanced Oracle datatypes and
features. - .NET developers now can access index-by table datatypes, also known as
PL/SQL associative arrays; the new optimized - float and number datatypes
introduced in this release Database; and improved LOB datatype performance.
Moreover, - ODP.NET has introduced a new LOB property, InitialLOBFetchSize, to
allow developers to tune their LOB applications better. ODP.NET now also supports
nested cursors.

ODP.NET Support for XML DB ODP.NET has been enhanced to include native
support for Oracle XML DB, making XML easy to use and manage within .NET.
This new functionality introduces a native XMLType for flexible and efficient XML
manipulation; XSLT and XPATH support; and seamless conversion between
relational and XML data.

64 bit Windows Support
This release provides a native 64-bit Oracle database for Windows with additional
Itanium II performance and scalability optimizations for enterprise data centers.


Windows

Optimized 64-bit Database The Oracle database is now available on 64-bit
Windows. The database is a native 64-bit application, enabling it to take maximum
advantage of the high performance Itanium II hardware.

Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Support for Serializable
Transactions Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server now supports
distributed transactions set to a serializable isolation level.


Windows


2
Oracle10i Database Documentation

This chapter lists the books available online that document the Oracle10i Database,
Release 1.
This chapter contains the following sections:
s Online Documentation Structure
s Documentation Titles

Beta Draft Oracle10i Database Documentation 2-1

Online Documentation Structure

Online Documentation Structure
All books are available in electronic format. The following categories of
documentation are available:
s Oracle10i Server and SQL*Plus
s Data Mining
s Oracle Spatial
s OLAP
s Oracle10i Documentation for Windows

Documentation Titles
The following tables list the book titles in the generic documentation areas.

Note: This is the list of books and part numbers that were
available at release time. This list might differ slightly from what is
available online.

Oracle10i Server and SQL*Plus
Table 2–1 Oracle10i Server and SQL*Plus Documentation
Documentation Part Number Description
Administration, Concepts, and Reference
Oracle10i Database New Features B10750-01 Describes the new features of Oracle10i and lists the
documentation for this release.
Oracle10i Database Administrator's B10739-01 Explains how to create and to manage an Oracle database.
Guide Includes information about distributed processing.
Oracle10i Database Concepts B10743-01 Describes how the Oracle Database functions and lays a
conceptual foundation for more detailed information
contained in other Oracle Database books.



Table 2–1 Oracle10i Server and SQL*Plus Documentation(Cont.)
Oracle10i Database Upgrade Guide B10763-01 Explains the process of planning and executing database
upgrades on the Oracle database server. In addition, this
guide provides information about compatibility, about
upgrading applications to the current release of Oracle,
and about important changes in the current release, such
as initialization parameter changes and data dictionary
changes.
Oracle10i Database Performance B10752-01 Explains in detail how to enhance Oracle performance by
Tuning Guide writing and tuning SQL properly, by using performance
tools, and by optimizing instance performance.
Oracle10i Database Performance B10751-01 Explains the high-level performance methodology
Planning recommended by Oracle for the database. Explains clear
and simple activities that can dramatically improve
system performance according to extensive Oracle design
and performance research.
Oracle10i Database Reference B10755-01 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 system.
Oracle10i Database Utilities B10825-01 Describes how to use Oracle Database utilities to load data
into a database, transfer data between databases, and
maintain data. The utilities described include the new
Data Pump export and import products, the original
export and import products, SQL*Loader, external tables,
the Metadata API, LogMiner, DBVERIFY, and DBNEWID.
Oracle10i Database Globalization B10749-01 Describes Oracle globalization support for the database.
Support Guide 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 High Availability Architecture B10726-01 Describes tested architectures and recommended practices
and Best Practices that can be used to achieve high availability with Oracle
Database products and features.
Oracle10i Sample Schemas A96539-01 Describes the sample schemas that are included in the
seed database that ships, along with the familiar SCOTT
schema, with Oracle10i. These schemas are used in
examples in Oracle documentation and curriculum
materials and in demos on Oracle Technology Network
(OTN).



Oracle10i Database SQL Quick B10758-01 Contains a high-level description of the Structured Query
Reference Language (SQL) used to manage information in an Oracle
database.
Oracle10i Database SQL Reference B10759-01 Contains a complete description of the Structured Query
Language (SQL) used to manage information in an Oracle
database. The ﬁrst volume describes all of the building
blocks of SQL statements. The remaining volumes
describe the SQL statements alphabetically.
Oracle10i Heterogeneous B10764-01 Describes the Oracle approach to information integration
Connectivity Administrator's Guide in a heterogeneous environment. Describes Oracle
Transparent Gateways and Generic Connectivity and is an
administrator’s guide for these Oracle products.
Backup and Recovery
Oracle10i Recovery Manager Quick B10769-01 This book is the starting point for all users of the backup
Start Guide and recovery documentation. It presents the basics of
backup and recovery through the Recovery Manager,
provides a guide to using the rest of the backup and
recovery documentation, and includes a quick reference
for frequently used Recovery Manager commands and
views.
Oracle10i Backup and Recovery B10735-01 Provides introductory background information on backup
Basics and recovery and a guide on how to perform common
backup and recovery tasks.
Oracle10i Backup and Recovery B10734-01 Provides in-depth information on the mechanics of
Advanced User's Guide backup and recovery, and a guide to performing complex
and less frequently performed backup and recovery tasks,
including user-managed backup and recovery and
performance tuning of backup and recovery.
Oracle10i Recovery Manager B10770-01 This book describes the RMAN syntax and recovery
Reference catalog views.
Data Warehousing
Oracle10i Data Warehousing Guide B10736-01 Provides conceptual, reference, and implementation
material for using Oracle10i in data warehouses. Covers
the full range of data warehousing activities, from
physical database design to advanced calculation
techniques



Streams and Replication
Oracle Streams Concepts and B10727-01 Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams
Administration and information about configuring, administering, and
monitoring an Oracle Streams environment. Also includes
detailed examples of using Oracle Streams for various
purposes.
Oracle Streams Replication B10728-01 Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams
Administrator's Guide replication and about configuring, administering, and
monitoring an Oracle Streams replication environment.
Also includes detailed examples of configuring Oracle
Streams replication environments.
Oracle10i Advanced Replication B20732-01 Contains conceptual information about Oracle Advanced
Replication. Also includes information about planning an
Advanced Replication environment, an introduction to the
Replication Management tool in Oracle Enterprise
Manager, and information about troubleshooting
Advanced Replication problems.
Oracle10i Advanced Replication B10733-01 Contains reference information about and step-by-step
Management API Reference instructions for using the replication management API,
which is a set of PL/SQL packages for setting up and
managing an Advanced Replication environment. Also
includes reference information about data dictionary
views that are important for Advanced Replication and
security considerations for an Advanced Replication
environment.
SQL*Plus
SQL*Plus User's Guide and B12006-01 Provides introductory and how-to sections describing the
Reference SQL*Plus command-line interface, the Windows graphical
user interface, and the web-based iSQL*Plus user interface
and how to configure and use them. Reference and error
sections provide SQL*Plus command descriptions and list
SQL*Plus error messages with associated cause and action
text.
SQL*Plus Quick Reference B12007-01 Shows iSQL*Plus syntax, navigation, and buttons, and
SQL*Plus command syntax.



Data Guard
Oracle Data Guard Broker B10822-01 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. This
guide provides comprehensive descriptions and examples
for using both the command-line interface and the Oracle
Data Guard Manager graphical user interface.
Oracle Data Guard Concepts and B10823-01 Provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle Data Guard
Administration 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.
Networking and Security
Oracle10i Net Services B10775-01 Explains how to plan, configure, and manage enterprise-
Administrator's Guide wide connectivity with Oracle Net Services.
Oracle10i Net Services Reference B10776-01 Contains a complete listing and description of the control
Guide utility commands and configuration file parameters
available for managing components of Oracle Net
Services.
Oracle10i Security Overview A96582-01 Introduces the basic concepts of system security. It
outlines the data security risks which are prevalent today,
and the industry-standard technologies available to
address them. It then presents the suite of Oracle products
you can use to implement these security technologies.
Oracle10i Database Security Guide B10773-01 Provides a comprehensive overview of security for this
database release, featuring security as a necessary, primary
focus for Oracle installations. It provides the conceptual
framework for understanding security requirements and
threats as well as introducing the features, techniques, and
policies for meeting those needs with Oracle products. The
audience for this book includes system managers as well
as users, DBAs, and application developers.
Oracle Advanced Security B10772-01 Oracle Advanced Security provides a single source of
Administrator's Guide integration with network encryption, single sign-on
services, smartcard, token and biometric user
authentication.



Oracle Label Security B10774-01 Describes how to use Oracle Label Security to protect
Administrator's Guide sensitive data. It explains the basic concepts behind label-
based security and provides examples to show how it is
used.
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Oracle10i Real Application Clusters B10767-01 Provides a brief conceptual description of Real
Quick Start Application Clusters and describes "quick start"
installation, administration, and deployment procedures
for Real Application Clusters.
Oracle10i Real Application Clusters B10766-01 Explains Real Application Clusters setup and
Installation and Configuration configuration procedures as well as how to use Oracle
tools for software installation and database creation. This
RAC install book is new for Oracle10i and includes RAC
installation information for all platforms.
Oracle10i Real Application Clusters B10765-01 Explains how to administer Real Application Clusters.
Administration
Oracle10i Real Application Clusters B10768-01 Provides a high-level explanation of deployment practices
Deployment and Performance for various system types such as e-commerce, data
warehousing, and online transaction processing. Gives an
in-depth examination of Real Application Clusters
performance measurement and tuning methods to
maximize clustered environment performance.
Oracle10i Application Developer's B10795-01 Introduces the features needed to develop applications for
Guide - Fundamentals Oracle10i, particularly triggers and stored procedures.
This book also gives a high-level overview of topics
covered in more detail in other books, such as PL/SQL,
Java, and OCI.
Oracle10i Application Developer's B10796-01 Describes use of large object (LOB) datatypes BLOB, CLOB,
Guide - Large Objects NCLOB, and BFILE in application development. You can
use these datatypes to store and manipulate unstructured
and semi-structured data in binary or character format.
This book also describes APIs for working with LOBs in
supported programmatic environments. New APIs that
allow you to use LOBs 8 terabytes in size or larger,
depending on your configuration, are described.
Oracle10i Application Developer's B10799-01 Describes user-defined object datatypes and how to use
Guide - Object-Relational Features these datatypes to model complex real-world entities as
objects in the database.



Oracle10i Application Developer's B10824-01 Describes how to use Oracle Database Workspace
Guide - Workspace Manager Manager to work with long transactions. Workspace
management refers to the ability of the database to hold
different versions of the same record (that is, row) in one
or more workspaces. Users of the database can then
change these versions independently. This manual
includes conceptual, usage, and reference information.
Oracle10i Database Application B10821-01 Provides usage and reference information about how to
Developer’s Guide - Expression Filter manage, index, and evaluate conditional expressions in
relational tables.
Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing B10785-01 Describes features of application development and
User’s Guide and Reference integration using the Oracle messaging system, Advanced
Queuing (AQ). Includes the PL/SQL, C, Visual Basic, Java,
and JMS interfaces to AQ and gateways to non-Oracle
messaging systems.
Oracle10i Data Cartridge Developer's B10800-01 Describes how to implement custom indexing and query
Guide optimization services and how to package and use these
as a server extension called a data cartridge.
Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide B10790-01 Describes the database native XML support for this
release. Oracle XML DB features a hierarchical repository
with advanced foldering, versioning, and security
mechanisms. This manual describes methods of storing,
generating, accessing, searching, validating, transforming,
and indexing XML and other data, including how to use
FTP or HTTP/WebDav to access XML in the database.
This manual also covers using Oracle XML DB with
Oracle Text, Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing, and
Oracle Enterprise Manager.



Oracle HTML DB User’s Guide B10992-01 Oracle HTML DB is a browser-based development
environment that enables users to build data-driven
applications called flows. A flow consists of multiple
HTML pages linked together with tabs, buttons, or
hypertext links. Oracle HTML DB dynamically renders
and processes these pages from data stored in tables.
Oracle HTML DB consists of three core components:
Data Workshop. Enables users to import data into and
export data from a hosted database.
SQL Workshop. Enables uses to view and manage
database objects from a Web browser.
Flow Builder. Provides users with an online development
environment in which to build the pages that comprise of
flow.
Oracle XML Developer's Kit B10794-01 Introduces you to the XML Developer’s Kit (XDK) and
Programmer's Guide how the various language components of the XDK can
work together to generate and store XML data in a
database or in a document outside the database. Examples
and sample applications are introduced where possible.
Language and Interface
Oracle Call Interface Programmer's B10779-01 Presents the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), an application
Guide programming interface (API) that enables applications
written in C or C++ to interact with one or more Oracle
databases.
Oracle C++ Call Interface B10778-01 Presents the Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), an
Programmer's Guide application program interface (API) 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 (OTT),
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.
PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference B10807-01 Presents PL/SQL, the Oracle procedural extension of SQL,
an advanced fourth-generation programming language.
Explains the concepts behind PL/SQL and illustrates
every facet of the language.



Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide A967269-02 A comprehensive user's guide and reference to the Oracle
Pro*C/C++ precompiler, this guide shows how to develop
C++ programs that use the SQL and PL/SQL database
languages to access and manipulate Oracle data.
Pro*COBOL Programmer's Guide A96109-02 A comprehensive user’s guide and reference to the Oracle
Pro*COBOL Precompiler, this guide shows how to
develop COBOL programs that use the SQL and PL/SQL
database languages to access and manipulate Oracle data.
Programmer's Guide to the Oracle A42525-01 This guide is a comprehensive user’s guide and on-the-job
Precompilers reference to the Oracle Pro*COBOL and Pro* Fortran
Precompilers. It show you step-by-step how to develop
applications that use the powerful database language SQL
to access and manipulate Oracle data.
Pro*Fortran Supplement to the A42523-01 This companion book to the Programmer’s Guide to the
Oracle Precompilers Guide Oracle Precompilers shows you how to write FORTRAN
programs that use the powerful database language SQL to
access and manipulate Oracle data.
SQL*Module for Ada Programmer's A58231-02 This book is a comprehensive user’s guide and reference
Guide for SQL*Module, an Oracle application development tool.
It includes a complete description of Module Language,
an ANSI/ISO SQL standard for developing applications
that access data stored in a relational database. Module
Language uses parameterized procedures to encapsulate
SQL statements. The procedures can then be called from
an Ada application. This guide also describes how you can
use SQL*Module to call PL/SQL procedures stored in an
Oracle database. A number of complete examples using
Module Language, Ada code, and stored database
procedures are provided.
Application Reference
PL/SQL Packages and Types B10802-01 Describes the PL/SQL packages and deﬁned types
Reference supplied with the Oracle Database. Packages are listed
alphabetically with syntax, procedures and functions, and
parameters described for each package.
Oracle XML API Reference B10789-01 Describes Oracle XML Developer’s Kit (XDK) and Oracle
XML DB application program interfaces (APIs) for
developers building XML applications on the Oracle10i
database and provides syntax and a brief description of
functions, methods, and procedures associated with them.



interMedia
Oracle interMedia User's Guide B10840-01 Describes how to develop and deploy Web-based
applications running on Oracle9i Application Server that
are tightly integrated with the Oracle10i Database to store,
retrieve, and manage image, audio, video, and
heterogeneous media data using Oracle interMedia object
types along with other relational data.
Oracle interMedia Reference B10829-01 Describes how to enable Oracle10i to store, manage, and
retrieve images, audio, video, or other heterogeneous
media data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise
information.
Oracle interMedia Annotator User's B10831-01 Describes how to extract information (or metadata) from
Guide and Reference media sources of certain formats and insert the metadata
along with the media source into an Oracle database.
Oracle Text
Oracle Text Application Developer's B10729-01 Contains information about how to build an application
Guide with Oracle Text, such as a text query application or
document classiﬁcation system. Examples are provided for
creating a text table, indexing, and querying. This book
also contains information about query tuning, document
presentation, and using a thesaurus in your application.
Oracle Text Reference B10730-01 Contains reference information for Oracle Text, including
Oracle Text SQL statements, operators, supplied PL/SQL
packages, and views. Examples are provided for using the
PL/SQL packages and operators.
Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide B10731-01 Contains information on how to build web-based query
applications using Oracle Ultra Search. Topics include
crawling, indexing, and searching text content in
databases or HTML pages. Java Server Pages (JSP) web-
application examples are provided.



Data Mining
Table 2–2 Oracle10i Data Mining Documentation
Oracle Data Mining Concepts B10698-01 Provides an overview of basic Oracle Data Mining concepts.
Oracle Data Mining B10697-01 Describes how to install the Oracle Data Mining software and
Administrator’s Guide how to perform other administrative functions common to all
Oracle Data Mining environments on both UNIX and Windows
platforms.
Oracle Data Mining B10699-01 Describes how to use the Oracle Data Mining API (Java and
Programmer’s Guide PL/SQL) to perform data mining tasks, including building and
testing models, computing lift, and scoring.

Oracle Spatial
Table 2–3 Oracle Spatial Documentation
Oracle Spatial User's Guide and B10826-01 Provides usage and reference information for indexing and
Reference storing spatial data and for developing spatial applications.
Includes an appendix about Oracle10i Locator and its
relationship to Oracle Spatial.
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster B10827-01 Describes GeoRaster, a feature of Oracle Spatial that lets you
store, index, query, analyze, and deliver GeoRaster data,
that is, raster image data and its associated Spatial vector
geometry data, plus metadata.
Oracle Spatial Topology and Network B10828-01 Provides usage and reference information about the
Data Models topology data model and network data model capabilities
of Oracle Spatial.



OLAP
Table 2–4 OLAP Documentation
Oracle OLAP Application B10333-02 Explains how SQL and Java applications can extend their
Developer's Guide analytic processing capabilities by using the OLAP option in the
Enterprise Edition of the Oracle database.
Oracle OLAP Reference B10334-02 Explains the syntax of PL/SQL packages and types and the
column structure of views related to Oracle OLAP.
Oracle OLAP DML Reference B10339-02 Contains a complete description of the OLAP Data Manipulation
Language (OLAP DML) used to define and manipulate analytic
workspace objects.
Oracle OLAP Developer's B10335-02 Introduces the Oracle OLAP API, a Java application
Guide to the OLAP API programming interface for Oracle OLAP, which is used to
perform online analytical processing of the data stored in an
Oracle database. Describes the API and how to discover
metadata, create queries, and retrieve data.

Oracle10i Documentation for Windows
f

Table 2–5 Oracle Windows Documentation
Oracle10i Database Platform Guide B10113-01 Provides platform-specific information for configuring and
for Windows using your Oracle database software on Windows. Topics
discussed include: architecture, services, tools,
configuration, administration, tuning, backup, accounts,
passwords, user authentication, registry parameters, and
application development.
Oracle10i Database Installation B10130-01 Provides platform-specific preinstallation, installation,
Guide for Windows postinstallation, and component information for your single
instance Oracle10i database and client software on
Windows.
Oracle Services for Microsoft B10114-01 Provides introductory, installation, configuration, usage,
Transaction Server Developer's Guide and administration information for using Oracle Services
for Microsoft Transaction Server. Microsoft Transaction
Server is a proprietary Component Object Model (COM)
transaction processing system that runs on an Internet or
network server.



Table 2–5 Oracle Windows Documentation(Cont.)
Oracle Provider for OLE DB B10115-01 Oracle Provider for OLE DB (OraOLEDB) is based on an
Developer's Guide open standard that uses a set of Component Object Model
(COM) interfaces for data access, in this case to Oracle
databases. This developer’s guide describes provider-
specific features and properties of OraOLEDB.
Oracle COM Automation Feature B10116-01 Oracle COM Automation Feature provides a mechanism to
Developer's Guide manipulate COM objects through PL/SQL. This
developer’s guide provides introductory, installation,
postinstallation configuration, and usage information for
Oracle COM Automation Feature.
Oracle Data Provider for .NET B10117-01 Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is an
Developer's Guide implementation of Microsoft's ADO.NET interface and
provides access to Oracle databases. This developer’s guide
describes provider-specific features and properties of
ODP.NET.
Oracle Objects for OLE Developer’s B10118-01 Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O) allows easy access to data
Guide stored in Oracle databases with any programming or
scripting language that supports the Microsoft COM
Automation and ActiveX technology. This developer’s
guide describes the concepts important to OO4O and the
object classes.
Oracle Objects for OLE C++ Class B10119-01 The Oracle Objects for OLE C++ Class Library is a collection
Library Developer’s Guide of C++ classes that provide programmatic access to the
OO4O automation server. This developer’s guide describes
the concepts and the object classes.
Pro*C/C++ Getting Started for A96111-02 This guide is an addendum to the Pro*C/C++ Programmer's
Windows Guide containing information specific to the Windows
platform.
Pro*COBOL Getting Started for A96113-02 This guide is an addendum to the Pro*COBOL Programmer's
Windows Guide containing information specific to the Windows
platform.


3
Oracle10i Database Feature and Option
Availability

This chapter describes which database features are included in the various editions
of Oracle10i. This chapter contains the following sections:
s Introduction to Feature and Option Availability
s Oracle10i Database Release 1 Options
s Oracle10i Database Release 1 Feature Availability

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Introduction to Feature and Option Availability
The Oracle10i Database is available as Oracle10i Enterprise Edition, Oracle10i
Standard Edition, and Oracle10i Personal Edition. Each database edition includes a
wide set of database features. A database feature is a speciﬁc area of functionality
for the Oracle10i Database.
Oracle10i Enterprise Edition provides the most extensive functionality of the three
editions and contains all database features as well as the capability to use additional
database options if they are purchased with the product. A database option is an
area of functionality that actually extends the capability of the server and that must
be licensed for an additional fee.
Oracle10i Standard Edition, a subset of the feature functionality of Oracle10i
Enterprise Edition, does not allow for the purchase of options and is designed for
smaller businesses and enterprises.
Oracle10i Personal Edition is designed to be used by the single user for
development purposes. It is available on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP and includes, at no extra cost, all the features and options available
with Oracle10i Enterprise Edition, excluding Oracle10i Real Application Clusters.

Note: All features and options applicable to your conﬁguration
are included on your product CD-ROM and are shipped enabled.
Options must be licensed for use.

Oracle10i Database Release 1 Options
This section describes the options available with Oracle10i and lists the features that
are part of each option. Hyperlinks take you to the description of each feature in
Chapter 1, "Oracle10i Database Release 1 New Features".

Note: Options to the Oracle10i Database Enterprise Edition
expand database performance and manageability. Options are
included on your product CD ROM but must be licensed for use.

Oracle Advanced Security Oracle Advanced Security provides a comprehensive
range of network security features to provide a single source of integration with
network encryption, single sign-on services, smartcard, token, and biometric user
authentication, with support for Enterprise User Management. The following new
features are part of the Advanced Security option:



s 4096-Bit Key Size Support
s Access to Single Sign On Wallet
s Centralized CRL Management
s Centralized User Management for Kerberos Users
s Certificate Validation with Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)
s Communication over SASL
s Database Authentication with Standard LDAP Password Verifiers
s Easy Database Registration
s Kerberos-Enabled Database Links
s Key Store Interface
s Operating System Credential Cache
s Performance Improvements
s Single Station Administration for Password Authentication to Oracle Database
s Smart Card Support for X509v3 Certificates
s SSL Session Renegotiation
s Transport Layer Security (TLS) Support
s Unified User Model
s OLS Directory Integration

Oracle Data Mining Oracle Data Mining embeds data-mining functionality into
the Oracle database, for making classifications, predictions, and associations. All
model-building, scoring, and metadata management operations are initiated by
way of either a Java or PL/SQL API and occur entirely within the relational
database. The following new features are part of the Data Mining option:
s BLAST Queries
s Complete Oracle Data Mining Management
s Data Mining Rapid Application Development
s Enhanced Adaptive Bayes Network
s Enhanced Data Preprocessing
s Multi-User Access Control



Oracle Label Security Oracle Label Security extends Virtual Private Database
functionality by offering label-based data access.
s OLS Directory Integration

Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) Oracle10i OLAP is a scalable,
high-performance calculation engine with fully integrated management and
administration for delivering analytic applications. The following new features are
part of the OLAP option:
s Complete Analytical Workspace Management
s Enhanced Composite Dimensions Indexing
s Intra-Dimensional (Attribute) Aggregation
s Multi-Writer Support
s PL/SQL Creation of Analytic Workspaces
s XML Interface for Analytic Workspace

Oracle Partitioning Oracle Partitioning allows large tables to be stored in smaller
pieces that improve manageability, availability, and scalability. The following new
features are part of the Partitioning option:
s Global Partitioned Indexes - Hash Partitioning
s Local Partitioned Indexes Manageability Improvements
s Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - Global Index Maintenance
s Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - List Partitioning
s Partitioned Index-Organized Tables - LOB Support

Oracle10i Real Application Clusters Oracle10i Real Application Clusters is a
computing environment that harnesses the processing power of multiple,
interconnected computers using clustering technology. It includes Cluster
Filesystem capability on the Windows environment. The following new features are
part of the Real Application Clusters option:
s Automatic Portable Clusterware Installation
s Automatic RAC Services Conﬁguration
s Data Guard Broker Support for RAC
s Improved Streams RAC Support


Oracle10i Database Release 1 Feature Availability

s Real Application Clusters High Availability Extensions
s Simplified Upgrade for RAC and OPS Databases

Oracle Spatial The Oracle Spatial option is an integrated set of functions and
procedures that enables spatial data to be stored, accessed, and analyzed quickly
and efficiently in an Oracle database. The following new features are part of the
Spatial option:
s GeoRaster Support
s Network Data Model
s Topology Data Model
s Spatial Analytic Functions

This section lists the features in Oracle10i that are available only as part of
Enterprise Edition. Features not listed here are available with all editions with no
additional licensing fee required.
Advanced Replication to Streams Migration Tool
Asynchronous Change Data Capture
Automating Recovery Through Open Resetlogs in Standby Databases
Change-Aware Incremental Backups
Column-level VPD
Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespaces
Dynamic Connection Manager Configuration
End-to-End Application Tracing
End-to-End Identity Propagation
Enhanced Online Redefinition
Enhanced Partition Management in Enterprise Manager
Extended SQL Support in FGA
Flashback Database
Flashback Reinstantiation
Flashback Standby Database
Flashback Table
Flashback Transaction Query
High-Speed Infiniband Network Support
Improved Connection Manager Access Rules
Incrementally Updated Backups
Materialized View Tuning API



Multimaster Replication
Native Net Over Fast Interconnects
Oracle Messaging Gateway - MQSeries JMS Interface
Oracle Messaging Gateway - OJMS (AQ/JMS) Interface
Oracle Messaging Gateway - Tibco/Rendezvous Java Interface
Parallel Data Pump Export and Import
Parallel Spatial Queries
Real Time Apply
Rolling Upgrades with SQL Apply
Secured Redo Transmission
Simpliﬁed Zero Data Loss for Data Guard SQL Apply
Improved Streams RAC Support
Streams - Clean Up LogMiner Information
Streams - Downstream Capture
Streams - Row Subsetting During Capture and Propagation
Summary Management - Enhanced Dimensions
Summary Management - Enhanced Partition-aware Materialized View Refresh
Summary Management - Enhanced PCT Refresh
Summary Management - EXPLAIN PLAN Shows Materialized View Access
Summary Management - Query Rewrite Uses Multiple Materialized Views
VPD Static and Dynamic Policies
VPD Support for Parallel Query
Zero Downtime Instantiation for SQL Apply


Index
A N
administration documentation, 2-2 networking
application development documentation, 2-6
documentation, 2-7
application reference
documentation, 2-10
O
online documentation, 2-2
administration, concepts, and reference, 2-2
B application development, 2-7
backup and recovery application reference, 2-10
documentation, 2-4 backup and recovery, 2-4
Data Guard, 2-6
data warehousing, 2-4
D database and SQL*Plus, 2-2
Data Guard for Windows, 2-13
documentation, 2-6 interMedia, 2-11
data warehousing networking, 2-6
documentation, 2-4 Oracle Spatial, 2-12
database Oracle Streams, 2-5
feature availability, 3-5 Oracle Text, 2-11
features, 3-2 Real Application Clusters, 2-7
options, 3-2 replication, 2-5
documentation. See online documentation. security, 2-6
SQL*Plus, 2-5
F option factoring matrix, 3-2
Oracle Spatial
factoring matrix documentation, 2-12
options, 3-2 Oracle Streams
documentation, 2-5
I Oracle Text
documentation, 2-11
interMedia
documentation, 2-11

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R
Real Application Clusters
documentation, 2-7
reference documentation, 2-2
release
availability, 3-5
options, 3-2
replication
documentation, 2-5

S
security
documentation, 2-6
SQL*Plus
documentation, 2-2, 2-5

W
Windows
documentation, 2-13

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