April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
23h 17m
English
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Options
The Oracle options summarized in this section are currently available.
- Advanced Networking Option (ANO)
Implements additional network security and encryption. Also provides support for third-party authentication services.
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Tuning Pack
Extra-cost add-on to Enterprise Manager.
- Objects Option
Allows the creation of object classes such as object data types and methods. Implementation of the Objects Option begins the process of converting Oracle from a relational database to an object-relational database. Many of the new data types and SQL statements are available only with this option.
- Parallel Server Option
Allows loosely coupled nodes in a cluster (shared disk) or a massively parallel processor (MPP) configuration to share a common database. This allows for scalability to larger databases than could be supported on a single computer system. Each computer node has a separate instance. In an MPP configuration, the database is distributed across multiple (up to 1024) computer systems. When Parallel Query is also built into the system, Oracle is able to distribute the workload for large-scale queries across the multiple nodes.
- Partitioning Option
Allows large tables to be split into multiple segments based upon value ranges for one or more columns, called the partition key . At the time the table is created, you specify the number of partitions and the largest value for the partition key in each partition. Since each partition is a separate segment, you can also ...
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