| Oracle® Database Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2.0) for Windows Part Number B10130-01 |
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| Oracle® Database Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2.0) for Windows Part Number B10130-01 |
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This section describes new features of Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) for Windows and provides pointers to additional information.
The following sections describe the new features in Oracle Database:
Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) New Features for Windows
Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) Deprecated and Desupported Components
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Automatic Storage Management enables creation of a single disk group from a collection of individual disk devices.
Several components are no longer installed from the Oracle Database installation media.
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See Also: "Additional Software Installations" |
When a user attempts a remote login to an Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) database, the password is automatically encrypted before it is sent to the remote database.
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See Also: "Administering a Database on Windows" in Oracle Database Platform Guide for Windows |
Two new utilities offer faster transfer of files to and from Oracle databases. The older file transfer utilities, Import and Export, are retained for use with Oracle databases created with earlier versions of Oracle software.
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See Also: "Database Tools on Windows" in Oracle Database Platform Guide for Windows |
The Instant Client feature of Oracle Call Interface (OCI) simplifies OCI installation. The activation of Instant Client mode is only dependent on the ability to load the Instant Client data shared library. It requires only two dynamic link libraries to be loaded by the dynamic loader of the operating system.
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See Also: "OCI Instant Client" in Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide |
Large page support provides a performance boost for memory-intensive database instances running on Windows Server 2003. By taking advantage of newly introduced operating system support, Oracle Database 10g can now make more efficient use of processor memory addressing resources.
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See Also: "Large Page Support" in Oracle Database Platform Guide for Windows |
Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) 10g release 1 (10.1) includes the following:
Support for Oracle grids
ODP.NET is grid-enabled, allowing developers to take advantage of Oracle database grid support without having to make changes to their application code.
Support for new datatypes in the database
ODP.NET supports the new database native types BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE.
Support for multiple Oracle homes
ODP.NET can be installed in multiple Oracle homes. In order to make multiple homes available, some of the ODP.NET files include a version number, and the use of a HOMEID is required.
Support for schema-based XMLType in the database
ODP.NET supports the native schema-based XMLType.
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See Also: Oracle Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide |
Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control is installed in the same Oracle home as the database and supports standalone Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) instances.
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Oracle Home Selector is no longer available from the Start menu. Similar functionality is available through Oracle Universal Installer.
Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O) 10g release 1 (10.1) has the following new and updated features:
Support for Oracle grids
OO4O is grid-enabled, allowing developers to take advantage of Oracle database grid support without having to make changes to their application code.
Support for new datatypes
Oracle Objects for OLE 10g release 1 (10.1) provides support for the BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT datatypes introduced in this release. Instances of these types can be fetched from the database or passed as input or output variables to SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks, including stored procedures and functions.
Support for multiple Oracle homes
Oracle Objects for OLE can be installed in multiple Oracle homes, starting with 10g release 1 (10.1). However, being a COM component, only one instance can be active on the computer. This means that the current (latest) installation renders the previous one inactive.
In order to make multiple homes available, the use of a HOMEID is required. Also, some of the OO4O files include a version number.
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See Also: Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide |
Oracle Provider for OLE DB 10g release 1 (10.1) includes the following:
Support for Oracle grids
Oracle Provider for OLE DB is grid-enabled, allowing developers to take advantage of Oracle database grid support without having to make changes to their application code.
Support for the following datatypes introduced with Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1):
BINARY_DOUBLE
BINARY_FLOAT
Support for multiple Oracle homes
Oracle Provider for OLE DB can be installed in multiple Oracle homes, starting with 10g release 1 (10.1). However, being a COM component, only one instance can be active on the computer. This means that the current (latest) installation renders the previous one inactive.
In order to make multiple homes available, some of the Oracle Provider for OLE DB files now include a version number, and the use of a HOMEID is required.
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See Also: Oracle Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide |
Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server supports .NET transactional applications with OLE DB.NET through the Oracle Provider for OLE DB, and ODBC.NET through the Oracle ODBC driver.
The following components were renamed in this release:
Oracle Windows Performance Monitor was renamed to Oracle Counters for Windows Performance Monitor.
Oracle Administration Assistant for Windows NT was renamed to Oracle Administration Assistant for Windows.
Oracle Demos were renamed to Oracle Examples.
This release includes a new database scheduler to provide enterprise scheduling functionality. External jobs performed by the user are started using the OracleJobScheduler service. This service is disabled by default. In order to use the external jobs functionality, the administrator must set the username and password for the user account under which this service must run, and enable the service.
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The following Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) components that were part of Oracle9i release 2 (9.2.0) are not available for installation with Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1):
The following components are desupported in a this release:
INTYPE File Assistant (IFA)
Pro*COBOL 1.8.77
Oracle Names
Oracle Trace
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Oracle Data Provider for .NET release 9.2.0.4, which was released on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) included the following:
XML support in ODP.NET.
With XML support, ODP.NET can now:
Store XML data natively in the database as the Oracle database native type, XMLType.
Access relational and object-relational data as XML data from an Oracle database instance into Microsoft .NET environment, process the XML using Microsoft .NET framework.
Save changes to the database server using XML data.
Support for PL/SQL Associative Array Binding
ODP.NET supports PL/SQL Associative Array (formerly known as PL/SQL Index-By Tables) binding.
An application can bind an OracleParameter, as a PL/SQL Associative Array, to a PL/SQL stored procedure using OracleParameter properties.
Support for InitialLOBFetchSize property on OracleCommand and OracleDataReader objects
Oracle Objects for OLE release 9.2.0.4 has the following new datatypes:
TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
Oracle Provider for OLE DB release 9.2.0.4, which was released on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) included the following:
Oracle Provider for OLE DB-Specific Connection String Attribute UseSessionFormat
UseSessionFormat specifies whether to use the default NLS session formats or let Oracle Provider for OLE DB override some of these formats for the duration of the session.
Support for the following datatypes introduced with Oracle9i release 1 (9.0.1):
TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
