New Oracle 7.1 Features

Received this the other day. Thought there might be some interest on the net. I don't have any more info, so please post questions to comp.databases.oracle and perhaps the oracle folks that follow this group will have mercy on us. - Dan

  General:

        V7.1 is both a fix release and includes lots of new features.

  New Features:

        Read-Only Tablespaces, including WORM drive support

        PLSQL functions allowed in SQL statements

        Asyncronous SQL statement execution (i.e. as background tasks)

        Multiple same-type triggers allowed per table

        Dynamic SQL implemented using DBMS_SQL procedure

	Snapshot enhancement which allows updates from both parent table AND
	   the snapshot table(s) - this includes a complex method for resolving
	   update conflicts for distributed replication.
	
  New Products:
	Server Manager
 	--------------
	This is a window interface for the DBA and will allow multiple
	windows to be opened to multiple databases at one time.  This will
	mean the ability to manage multiple databases from a single
        application. 

	Note: This product will cause SQL*DBA to be obsoleted in Oracle V8.0.

	SQL*Module
	----------
	We already have an Alpha version of this product installed on our
	DBASPT instances.  This is a tool for 3GL customers and should prove
	to be a very powerful enhancement.

  New Database Options:
	Parallel Decision
	-----------------
	This is a multi-tasker for SQL statement execution.  There will be
	such components as a QUERY COORDINATOR which will hand off tasks
	to a QUERY SLAVE.

	Parallel Data Option
	--------------------
	This is for very large databases.  It allows performing data
	manipulation in batches and in parallel.  Can choose level of
	parallelism (threads).  Also includes: Parallel index creation,
	parallel loader, parallel recovery (instance and media).

  Pro*C Improvements:
	The Pro*C precompiler will be simplified so as to only read and
	parse keyword tokens that it understands.  This will allow Proc*C
	to support all kinds of C structures and pointers that we currently
	don't support.

• Dan

Daniel Druker
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA                    

Disclaimer: None. I'm a student now and I don't care what you think. Received on Fri Aug 13 1993 - 22:47:23 CEST