Oracle 11G New Features

11G New Features

Flashback data archive
Database replay
SQL performance advisor
SQL plan management
Proactive health checking
Automatic diagnostic repository
Online patching
Patching advisor
Memory management
SQL Cache
SQL Access advisor (Partition)
Virtual columns
Invisible indexes
Transparent tablespace encryption
Create and rebuild indexes online


Flashback Data Archive
Flashback feature introduced in 9i
Allows viewing of data at a point in time in
the past
System managed undo required
Undo data could be overwritten preventing
flashback operations from occurring
10G introduced flashback database
Flash entire database back in time using
flashback recovery logs

Flashback Data Archive
11G introduces Flashback Data
Archive
Flashback operations now available over an extended
period of time.
Able to specify retention during flashback tablespace
creation.
Use Flashback Data Archive to Generate Reports, for
Trending, to Recover Data, etc.
SELECT product_number, product_name, count FROM
inventory AS OF TIMESTAMP TO_TIMESTAMP ('2007-01-01
00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS');

Use log miner GUI to search for specific changes.
Database Replay
Capture all database
activity like database
DVR.
Enables user to perform
real-world testing
Capture actual database
workload on production
system and replay it for
testing.
Test parameter, new
release changes
Measure performance impact
using diagnostic tools.
Database Replay
Analyze this!
SQL Performance Analyzer

Compare performance of SQL statements before and after a
system change.
Common Usage Scenarios:
Upgrade
Parameter Changes
Schema Changes (Indexes)
Optimizer Statistics

Produce report identifying changes in execution plans or
performance of SQL statements.
Measures overall response time of every individual SQL statement
in the workload.
Reveals regressed SQL statements (allowing time to remedy the
problem.)
Offers significant advantage for database tuning.


I KNEW I shouldnt
have reduced the SGA...
SQL Performance Analyzer
Observe how
system change
will affect each
SQL statement in
tuning set
Observe overall
affect from
system change
SQL Plan Management
Preventative tool to track SQL statements
access paths.
Stored in SQL Plan Baseline.
If access path changes, new plan is stored.
Database evaluates performance of new plans and
integrates plans with better performance into SQL Plan
Baselines to be accepted or removed.
Prevents bad access paths from being implemented.

Provide administrators time to evaluate the
access path change.
Interface available to view history of plans.
SQL Plan Management Baselines
Review captured access paths
Analyze each path
Proactive Health Checking
Redo integrity
Undo integrity
Transaction integrity
Dictionary integrity
Validate database
Recovery Advisor
Automatic
Monitors
Proactive Health Checking
Checkers results recorded in repository called Automatic
Diagnostic Repository.
Redo Integrity Check - scans contents of redo and archive
logs for accessibility and corruption
Undo Segment Integrity Check - finds logical undo
corruptions
Transaction Integrity Check - similar to Undo Segment
Check except that it checks only one specific transaction
Dictionary Integrity Check - examines the integrity of core
dictionary objects
DB Structure Integrity Check - verifies integrity of database
files and reports failures if files are inaccessible, corrupt,
inconsistent
Data Block Integrity Check - detects disk image block
corruptions

Identify and Resolve Critical Database Issues

When checkers find a
problem, information is
reported and then fed to
recovery advisors.

New Incident Packaging
Service creates a
bundle of all issues and
supporting files for easy
reporting to Oracle
Support.

Reduce time to problem
resolution.
Proactive Health Checking
Data Recover
Advisor Auto
Recovery Script
Generation
Automatic Diagnostic Repository
Combine incidents into "envelope"
All relevant trace files associated with error are identified
and added to the package and sent to Oracle Support.
Reduce time to problem resolution.


Online Patching
In Oracle Database 11g, most patches,
specifically diagnostic patches, can now be
applied online without taking any downtime.

Reduce planned as well as unplanned
downtime.

Patch Advisor
Setup Metalink credentials in
Enterprise Manager and all patches will be automatically
downloaded during a patching session.

Gathers information on available patches based on the
features you are using and downloads recommended
patches.
Patch Advisor
Determine if
there are
patches
available only
for features you
are using.
See available
CPU patches.
Memory Management
Oracle 9i introduces automatic memory management
MAX_SGA_SIZE, swaps memory between shared pool and data
buffer cache
Oracle 10g simplifies memory management
SGA_TARGET, allocates specified value for the overall SGA
memory area.
Memory area PGA is entirely outside the SGA, so is not touched
by the Automatic SGA Management feature
Oracle 11g SGA & PGA one setting
MEMORY_TARGET, boundary between PGA and SGA are fluid
and the memory allowed to flow freely between them
Avoids wasted memory due to incorrect memory pool settings.


Memory Management

MEMORY_TARGET
One setting

Memory Advisor
SQL Access Advisor
SQL Access Advisor has been enhanced
Helps achieve performance goals by recommending proper set
of materialized views, partitions, indexes ,etc.
Analysis includes considering cost of creation and maintaining
access structures.
Using these structures is essential when optimizing SQL and
can result in significant performance improvements.

Recommendations on improving schema design
Partitioning, indexing, and creating materialized views based
on actual frequency and type of usage.
SQL Access Advisor
Considers cost
of creation and
maintaining
access
structures
Advise on
complex
structures
SQL Result Cache
Cache in SGA, like buffer cache or PGA

Accessing memory is far quicker than accessing hard drives
When queries and functions are executed repeatedly, results
are retrieved directly from cache memory
Results in faster response time

Execute with hint result_cache
Stores results of SQL queries and PL/SQL functions in area
called Result Cache Memory
Allows lookup, rather than recalculation.
A change in the underlying table invalidates the cache,
resulting in dynamic refresh next time it is queried.



Virtual Columns

Enable application developers to define computations and
transformations as column definition of tables without space
consumption
Offers the flexibility to add columns that convey business
sense without adding any complexity to code or performance
impact.




SQL> create table sales
2 (
3 sales_id number,
4 cust_id number,
5 sales_amt number,
6 sale_category varchar2(6)
7 generated always as
8 (
9 case
10 when sales_amt <= 10000 then 'LOW'
11 when sales_amt > 10000 and sales_amt <= 100000 then 'MEDIUM'
12 when sales_amt > 100000 and sales_amt <= 1000000 then 'HIGH'
13 else 'ULTRA'
14 end
15 ) virtual

Invisible Indexes
Is this index really beneficial?
Oracle 11g offers option to make indexes invisible to optimizer.
alter index employee invisible;

Analyze impact index is having on system without
affecting performance.
Great for testing.






Transparent Tablespace Encryption
Transparent Data Encryption
(10g R2)
Performance is an issue with this feature.
Index range scan cannot be applied to
encrypted columns.
Transparent Tablespace Encryption
(11g)
All data in the tablespace is encrypted.
Index scanning occurs in memory where the data is
unencrypted, causing no performance impact.



Create and Rebuild Index Online
The online clause rebuilds the index without
affecting the DML.
In 10g the operation required an exclusive lock at the end
of the process and DMLs had to wait. Caused concurrency
waits.

In Oracle Database 11g, the online rebuild is
truly online, does not hold exclusive lock and
DMLs are not affected.
Maintain indexes without affecting system performance.