Oracle 11g New Features




§ Adaptive Cursor Sharing.
§ ADDM Enhancements (for RAC).
§ Automated Maintenance Tasks.
§ Automatic Memory Management.
§ Automatic SQL Tuning .
§ Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements.
§ AWR Baseline Enhancements .
§ Case Sensitive Passwords .
§ Data Recovery Advisor .
§ Database Resident Connection Pool .
§ Database Replay .
§ DDL With the WAIT Option...


The articles in this section are specifically targeted at the 1Z0_050Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators OCP upgrade exam.

Adaptive Cursor Sharing in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Overcome the problems associated with using bind variables against indexed columns containing skewed data.
 Reduce the impact of automated maintenance tasks on your system by controlling how and when they run.

Automatic Memory Management in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Oracle 11g takes the next step down the road to making manual memory management a thing of the past.

Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Take advantage of the Automatic SQL Tuning features of Oracle 11g Release 1.

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - This article provides an overview of the main Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1.

AWR Baseline Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Oracle 11g has extended the AWR baseline functionality and made alert threshold creation more flexible.

Case Sensitive Passwords in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Understand the implications and administration of this new security feature in Oracle 11g.
Cross-Session PL/SQL Function Result Cache in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Improve the performance of PL/SQL functions across the whole database instance by caching return values.
Database Replay in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Capture workloads on a production system and replay them exactly as they happened on a test system.

Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP) in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Use the database resident connection pool to reduce the resource requirements of applications that do not support connection pooling.

Data Recovery Advisor in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Automatically identify, diagnose and repair corruption or loss of persistent data on disk using this new feature.

DDL With the WAIT Option (DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT) - Avoid unnecessary "ORA-00054: resource busy" errors in 11g.

Fine-Grained Access to Network Services in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Take control of the external services accessed by the UTL_TCP, UTL_INADDR, UTL_HTTP, UTL_SMTP, and UTL_MAIL packages.

Finer Grained Dependency Management in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - See how finer grained dependency management in 11g reduces the extent of invalidations associated with schema changes.

Flashback and LogMiner Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - See how Oracle 11g Release 1 makes tracking data changes and recovering from logical errors easier because of enhancements to Flashback and LogMiner.

Invisible Indexes in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Take control of the indexes available to the optimizer by using invisible indexes in 11g.
1g Release 1 - A collection of new features and enhancements listed in the miscellaneous section of "Oracle Database 11G: New Features for Administrators" OCP syllabus.

Online Table Redefinition Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Take advantage of the reduced invalidations associated with online table redefintions in 11g.

Partitioning Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - An introduction to the partitioning enhancements in Oracle 11g Release 1.

Query Result Cache in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Improve the performance of SQL across the whole database instance by caching query results.

Read-Only Tables in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Protect data in static tables using the read-only table feature in Oracle 11g Release 1.

Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - An overview of the resource manager enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1.

RMAN Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - An overview of all the RMAN enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1.

Scheduler Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Oracle 11g adds more functionality to the Oracle scheduler.

SecureFiles in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Compress, deduplicate and encrypt LOBs using the new LOB functionality in Oracle 11g.


SQL Access Advisor in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Use this advisor to get suggestions for indexes, materialized views and partitioning schemes to improve system performance.

SQL Performance Analyzer in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Compare the performance of the statements in an SQL tuning set before and after database changes.


SQL Plan Management in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Maintain consistent SQL performance regardless of changes in optimizer version, optimizer statistics, schema changes, system settings and SQL profile creation.


Statistics Collection Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Provide the optimizer with additional selectivity information and avoid new statistics adversely affecting performance.


Table Compression Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Save space and improve performance of OLTP systems using the enhanced table compression in 11g.


Tablespace Encryption in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Simplify the administration of transparent data encryption (TDE) using tablespace encryption.


Temporary Tablespace Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 - Take advantage of better visibility and management of temporary tablespaces usage in 11g.


Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g - This article provides a brief overview of the areas involved in upgrading existing databases to Oracle 11g.

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