Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 provides you with the foundation for IT. Deliver more information with higher quality of service successfully, reduce the risk of change within IT, and make more efficient use of their IT budgets. By deploying Oracle Database 11g Release 2 as their data management foundation, organizations can utilize the full power of the world's leading database to:

* simplify their overall IT software portfolio;
* reduce server costs by a factor of 5;
* reduce storage requirements by a factor of 12;
* improve mission critical systems performance by a factor of 10;
* increase DBA productivity by a factor of 2;
* eliminate idle redundancy in the data center;
* simplify their overall IT software portfolio.

Several different editions are available depending on your technical requirements - including Express Edition, which is free to use, develop and distribute. This white paper describes the editions and what features are available in each edition.

Key Benefits:

* Analytic Functions 2.0;
* Recursive WITH Clause;
* Preprocessing Data for ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver in External Tables;
* In-Memory Parallel Execution;
* Auto Degree of Parallelism (Auto DOP) and Parallel Statement Queuing;
* Significant Performance Improvement of MV On-Commit Fast Refresh;
* Database Resource Manager Instance Caging;
* ASM Intelligent Data Placement;
* Database File System (DBFS);
* Hybrid Columnar Compression.