12 January, 2006
Announcing the General Availability of
Oracle Rdb Product Family Production Release 7.2 for OpenVMS
Itanium(r)-Based and AlphaServer Systems
Oracle is pleased to announce the production release of version 7.2
of
the Oracle Rdb product family. All product family components are
available for download from MetaLink. Now you can have the
rock-solid
availability, performance, disaster tolerance, security, and
scalability for which Oracle Rdb is well known on your choice of
Itanium-based or AlphaServer hardware. Nearly all Oracle Rdb-based
applications running on OpenVMS Alpha systems today need only to be
recompiled, linked and tested to run on Itanium-based servers.
Oracle Rdb release 7.2 is sup****ted on the full range of OpenVMS
certified Itanium-based server configurations from a
single-processor
rx1620 to a 16-processor Superdome. You can deploy on standalone or
clustered Itanium-based servers or add Itanium-based database
servers
to your existing OpenVMS cluster of AlphaServer systems.
Oracle Rdb release 7.2 allows direct database access from multiple
nodes in mixed-architecture clusters. Simultaneous access to the
same
database from AlphaServer and Itanium-based server systems within a
cluster allows you to ****t your existing applications on your own
schedule rather than forcing an "all-or-nothing" migration. These
options give you maximum protection for production environments and
permit you to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware when it makes
sense for your business.
As well as mixed-architecture cluster access, Oracle Rdb continues
to
offer remote database access. Existing applications connected via a
network can access Oracle Rdb release 7.2 databases located on
either
AlphaServer or Itanium-based server systems. For most applications,
this can be done with a simple logical name change and no
application
rebuilds. You can continue to run many applications unchanged while
you take advantage of performance improvements and reduced
cost-of-owner****p available with new Itanium-based servers.
In addition to OpenVMS Itanium sup****t, Oracle Rdb release 7.2
provides
a number of new features and performance enhancements, including:
* Increased maximum number of database global buffers to reduce
the I/O requirement of your workload
* Increased maximum database page and buffer size limits to
retrieve and store more information with a single I/O
* Additional statistics screens and larger counter sizes to make
monitoring your database even easier
* Streamlined internal instruction sequences for more efficient
CPU use
* Improved caching of database AIP entry information for reduced
I/O
* Index node pre-fetch performance optimizations to reduce I/O
stall time
* Transaction rollback performance optimizations to reduce
rollback time
* Encrypted database and after-image journal backups for
protection of confidential data
* Query Optimizer enhancements for more efficient query execution
strategies
With this release, all the components and features of Oracle Rdb are
available for production use on both AlphaServer and Itanium-based
server platforms. These components and features include:
* SQL interactive and dynamic interfaces
* SQL module language and precompilers
* RDO, RDBPRE and RDML precompilers
* Local and global buffering and row caches
* Data protection and transaction integrity using before-image and
after-image journaling
* Two-phase commit transactions sup****ting transactions that span
multiple databases
* Remote database access via TCP/IP and DECnet
* Data replication using Oracle Rdb Hot Standby, Oracle Rdb
LogMiner and Replication Option for Rdb
* All Oracle RMU management tools for backing up, verifying,
restoring and monitoring your database
* Oracle Trace for Rdb
* SQL/Services including sup****t for Oracle Call Interface (OCI),
and ODBC
* Oracle Rdb JDBC Drivers
Also, Oracle Rdb releases for AlphaServer systems continue to be
available in two options: a generic kit that runs on any AlphaServer
processor, and a platform-targeted performance kit that runs on
AlphaServer EV56 and later processors.
Oracle Rdb release 7.2 requires OpenVMS Alpha version 8.2 or later
or
HP Open Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers version 8.2-1 or
later.
The Oracle Rdb product family includes Oracle Rdb Enterprise
Edition,
Oracle CODASYL DBMS, Oracle CDD/Repository, Oracle SQL/Services, OCI
Services for Oracle Rdb, Oracle Trace for Rdb, Replication Option
for
Rdb, Oracle Rdb ODBC Driver, and Oracle Rdb JDBC Drivers.
Additional information is available at the Oracle Rdb web site:
http://www.oracle.com/rdb.
Regards, Ginger Vollmar
Rdb Engineering
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