Oracle

11G New Features

Technology Workshop

Asaf Lev & Ofir Manor

asaf.lev@oracle.com
ofir.manor@oracle.com

http://tech.theoracles.co.il

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 Agenda
9:00 – 9:05 Workshop Environment Introduction
9:05 – 9:20 Workshop Review Part I
DBConsole 11G
Advanced Compression
Total Recall
10:55 – Workshop Review Part II
11:15
Real Application Testing
Development & Performance Feature
(SPA)
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Technology Workshops
Workshop Environment
 Windows
Vmware
Virtual Machines running OEL 5.1
Firefox, SQLDeveloper, SQLPlus*
11g DB running DB control

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Workshop Contents – Part I

Username Password

SYS oracle

SYSTEM oracle

SCOTT TIGER

OE OE

SH SH

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 11g Database Console
• Objective – get familiar
with the DB Control UI,
and navigation through
the menus
• Performance tab
• Data Movement tab

• Enterprise Manager, Grid

Control, DB Console?!?!

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 Advanced Compression
• Oracle 9i - compresses data only during bulk load
• Data warehousing
• Table compression is now viable for all
applications
• Compress during random updates
• Typical compression ratio of 2x to 3x
• Database directly reads compressed data
bypassing decompression overhead
• Strategy - Compress 10 largest tables in a database
• Reduce table data by half, increase CPU usage 5%

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OLTP Table Compression Process

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Compression Results

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Compression Results

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Compression Results

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Compression Results

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Flashback Data Archive &
Total Recall ORDERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liO8UK2K-p4

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Flashback for Rapid Recovery
from Human Error

Flashback
Flashback Flashback Flashback Data Archive
Query Tables Database and
Transaction

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 Flashback Data Archive
• Flashback Data Archive
• Easy, practical way to add “time Select * from orders
dimension” to your data AS OF
‘Midnight 31-Dec-
• For change tracking, auditing, 2003’
compliance, …
• Query data “AS OF” any time in the past
ORDERS
• Efficient storage / retrieval of undo data
Archive
Tables
• DFA Vs. Other Flashback Tech Changes
• Historical data can be accessed from any
specified duration, far and beyond the User Flashback Data
undo or flashback log data. Tablespaces Archive

Total Recall

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 Flashback Data Archive
• FBDA process
• Collects and writes the original data to
flashback data archive
• Works Asynchronously
• Default sleeps for 5min (Changes
dynamically according to traffic)
• Flashback Data Archive ORDERS
• Based on new data dictionary objects
• Uses Advanced Compression
• Uses partitioning in its internal scheme
• Based upon quota & retention policy
definitions for flashback archive
• The internal history table is a replica of
the tracked table with addition timestamp Total Recall
column

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 Workshop Part I

Username Password

SYS oracle

SYSTEM oracle

SCOTT TIGER

OE OE

SH SH

http://tech.theoracles.co.il/

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Workshop Contents – Part II

Username Password

SYS oracle

SYSTEM oracle

SCOTT TIGER

OE OE

SH SH

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Lifecycle of Change Management
New Change Assurance Capabilities
Detect and Tune
Performance Changes
Capture and
Replay Workload Provision - Upgrade or
Clone

Set Up Test Configure and Maintain

Environments Production System

Package Incidents
for Support

Online ‘Hot’ Patching

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 Make Change Safe -
Realistic Testing with Database Replay
• Recreate actual production database workload in test environment
• No test development required
• Replay workload in test with production timing
• Analyze & fix issues before production

Client Client Client

… Production Test

Middle Tier Replay DB Workload

Capture DB Workload … …
Test migration
Oracle DB to RAC

Storage

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Make Change Safe –
Find Regressed SQL with SQL Performance Analyzer

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 Make Change Safe -
Online Upgrades

• Major online upgrade enhancements

• Online database upgrades for Data Guard
Physical Standby
• Physical Standby is Data Guard’s high performance
disaster recovery solution
• uses new Transient Logical Standby feature for
online upgrades
• Online database patching
• for one-off patches including diagnostic patches

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 Make Change Safe –
Fault Resolution

• New facilities to speed fault resolution

• Automatic Fault Diagnostics
• New facilities to capture and manage relevant
information for incidents (faults) to speed Support
processes
• Support Workbench
• Repair Advisors
• Speed analysis of root cause for faults
• Advise DBAs on repair strategy

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 Transparent Data Encryption
• Building on transparent column level encryption in Oracle
Database 10g Release 2
• Tablespace level encryption
• For encrypting entire application data
• Supports foreign keys and range scan
• LOB encryption
• Master Key protection in hardware using PKCS #11
• Integrates with LogMiner, Logical Standby, Streams,
Datapump

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 Workshop Part II

Username Password

SYS oracle

SYSTEM oracle

SCOTT TIGER

OE OE

SH SH

http://tech.theoracles.co.il/

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Summary and Feedback

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 Other Oracle Database 11g
Highlights
• Performance and Scalability
• Query Result Cache
• TimesTen Cache Enhancements
• RAC Scalability Enhancements
• High Availability
• Data Recovery Advisor
• Readable Physical Standby
• VLDB/ILM
• Interval and Referential
Partitioning
• Enhanced Compression
• Manageability and Diagnosability
• Support Workbench
• SQL Performance Analyzer
• SQL Test Case Builder
• Security
• Tablespace and LOB Encryption
• Secure Configuration
• Business Intelligence
• BI Publisher Reporting
• Supermodels for Data Mining
• Unstructured Data Management
• Enhanced XML indexing
• Storage & Query of Semantic Content
• Developer Productivity
• APEX 3.0 including support for Flash
Charting and PDF output
• Improved PHP Scalability
• .NET Improvements
• Simple compilation of PLSQL and Java
Stored Procedures
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 Oracle SecureFiles
Consolidated Secure Management of Data

• Many applications have both files and relational data

• e.g. Document Management, Medical, CAD, Imaging
• SecureFiles breaks the performance barrier that has kept file
data out of databases
• Similar to LOBs but much faster, and with more capabilities
• Transparent encryption, compression, deduplication, etc.
• Preserves security, reliability, and scalability of database
• Superset of LOB interfaces for easy migration from LOBs
• Benefits
• Single security model
• Single view of data
• Single management of data
• High performance

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 Unlocking the Value of Standby
DBs

Logical Standby Standby

Standby Standby for Online
for DR for Testing,
for Realtime Upgrade, Readable
and Backup Query Auto Failover Physical

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 Physical Standby with Real-Time Query
Real-time
Queries
Concurrent
Real-Time
Query
Continuous Redo
Shipment and Apply
Primary Physical Standby
Database Database

• Read-only queries on physical standby concurrent with redo apply

• Supports RAC on primary / standby
• Queries see transactionally consistent results
• Immediate appeal to the many users of physical standby
• DR with real time query is unique in the industry – no idle resources
• Handles all data types, but not as flexible as logical standby

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