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Oracle9i New Features for Developers

Duration: 3 days

Familiarize developers experienced with Oracle8i what new features are available in Oracle9i

Course Objectives:

Course Topics:

  1. Support for the 1999 SQL Standard

Join syntax

CASE statements

COALESCE and NULLIF expressions

Newly allowed subqueries

Using new SQL features in PL/SQL

  1. New Date/time Datatypes

TIME_ZONE parameter

TIMESTAMP datatypes

INTERVAL datatypes

New date functions

  1. Data Warehousing Enhancements

ROLAP operators

DSS function enahancements

Enhancements to INSERT statements

MERGE statements

GROUPING SETS

WITH clauses

Introduction to external tables

  1. PL/SQL Enhancements

Native compilation

Bulk binding

Bulk dynamic SQL

Enhanced PL/SQL tables

  1. Enhancements to Objects and Collections

Type inheritance and hierarchies

Substitutable object types

Widening and narrowing

Type dependencies

Multilevel collections

  1. Tuning Enhancements

Enhancements to index-organized tables

Stored SQL execution plans and stored outlines

CBO enhancements

Literal replacement of bind variables

  1. XML in Oracle9i

Overview of XML and XSL

The Oracle9i XDK

The XMLType

DBMS_XMLGEN

  1. Data Definition and Security Enhancements

Online table redefinition

Online index rebuilding

Virtual Private Database

Global Application Context

Row-level security

  1. Database Workspaces

What are workspaces?

Benefits of workspaces

Using workspaces

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