Oracle Database 11g New Features

Introduction

Oracle Database 11g is the newest release of Oracle's flagship database product. It contains a number of new innovations, which we cover in the pages of this book. This is my third Oracle "New Features" book for Oracle Press, and I've actually been writing them since Oracle 8.0 was released. For each book, it's been an incredible experience to go through the product, find the new features, and learn how to use them.

It can be difficult to write books about new features. First, you don't start out running the production product. You write using a beta copy of the software, and just hope that the final release does not change too much. Also, the marketing reality is that publishers want to get books out to market. So there is always ...