• Computationally intensive PL/SQL programs compiled under Oracle Database 10g will run, on average, twice as fast as they did under Oracle9i Database Release 2.
• PL/SQL will run three times as fast as they did under Oracle8 Database.
• Oracle Database 10g enhances support for querying hierarchical, or tree-structured, data
• Automatic Storage Management (ASM) now includes multiple disk operations, and a non-ASM database migration utility to help migrate existing databases while taking advantage of ASM’s dynamic data striping and load balancing.
• Enhancements to data provisioning and Oracle Streams making it much easier and faster to archive, move, and copy large data sets to better share information in a grid environment.
• Cluster Ready Services Open API for higher application availability and built in cluster ware file redundancy to reduce the risk of failure.
• Fully integrated tape backup and recovery solution, offering reliable Oracle database and file system protection utilizing tape devices.
• New Fast-Start Failover for rapid and automatic fail over to standby databases, without requiring any manual intervention.
• Integrated transparent data encryption and key management in the database, helping customers protect sensitive data in an Oracle Database without any changes to their application.
• Automated database administration enhancements include statistics collection directly from memory, eliminating the need to execute SQL queries.
• Application development enhancements include Xquery feature for queries and mapping of XML results inside the database.
• The cost of business intelligence is reduced with data mining PL/SQL package support for analytic applications such as Oracle Discoverer.
• Improved VLDB support is available with more partitions per table and more efficient partition management and query optimization.
• Information cycle time is reduced with enhanced data loading and query processing improvements.
By Chandra Shekara