Oracle 18c: 26 Remarkable new features of Oracle Database 18c..!!

Oracle 18c: 26 Remarkable new features of Oracle Database 18c..!!

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Oracle 18c: 26 Remarkable new features of Oracle Database 18c..!!

By Joel Pérez ( Oracle ACE Director )

Oracle 18c was released in 2018-02-16, and now available on Cloud and Engineered Systems，Adhering to Oracle’s Cloud first philosophy

Now let’s take a look at the 18c new features which are important in our opinion.

(A) Availability

1. Oracle Data Guard Multi-Instance Redo Apply Supports Use of Block Change Tracking Files for RMAN Backups

Multiple-Instance Redo Apply (also known as MIRA) now supports BCT (Block Change Tracking) backups. This is an effective incremental backup method large database, and both master and slave are RAC, and the backup happens on the slave this kind of DB environment.

2. Automatic Correction of Non-logged Blocks at a Data Guard Standby Database

added two new standby logging modes (mainly to speed up the primary database loading data):

One is Standby Nologging for Data Availability, where the commit of a loading operation is delayed until all standby have applied data.

SQL> ALTER DATABASE SET STANDBY NOLOGGING FOR DATA AVAILABILITY;

One is Standby Nologging for Load Performance. This mode is similar to the previous one, but it will not send data when it encounters the network bottleneck during loading data. This guarantees the loading performance but may lose the data which can be obtained again from primary.

SQL> ALTER DATABASE SET STANDBY NOLOGGING FOR LOAD PERFORMANCE;

3. Shadow Lost Write Protection

Create a shadow tablespaces to provide data protection. With this feature you may not need ADG to provide additional lost write protection.

Do you notice that this feature like double write of the MySQL?

4. Backups from non-CDBs are usable after migration to CDB

The original non-CDB can be migrated as a PDB to the existing CDB with this new function.

5. Support for PDBs as Shards and Catalogs

finally, oracle shard could be a pdb.

However, it only supports a single pdb in a single cdb. What’s the point?

6. User-Defined Sharding Method

This feature once appeared in the beta version of 12.2 but canceled in the official release. Now it got released again.

7. Consistency Levels for Multi-Shard Queries

Provides the MULTISHARD_QUERY_DATA_CONSISTENCY initialization parameter, to avoid SCN synchronization during slicing across slices you can be set it before the execution

8. Manual termination of run-away queries

Now you can manually kill a statement without breaking the session:

ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SQL.

ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SQL ‘SID, SERIAL, @INST_ID, SQL_ID’;

(B) Big Data and Data Warehousing

9. Approximate Top-N Query Processing

Note: In 18c, APPROX_COUNT and APPROX_SUM were added to make full use of theAPPROX_RANK.

10. LOB support with IMC, Big Data SQL

the memory database start support LOB objects.

(C) Database Overall

11. Copying a PDB in an Oracle Data Guard Environment

Two new parameters have been added to facilitate the creation of PDBs in an ADG environment.

12. PDB Lockdown Profile Enhancements

PDB lockdown profiles can now be created in application root and CDB root.You can now create another pdb lockdown profile based on a pdb lockdown profile.18c contains three default lockdown profiles: PRIVATE_DBAAS, SAAS, PUBLIC_DBAAS

13. Refreshable PDB Switchover

PDB refresh has always been known as the ADG for the poor, this feature is now getting much better in 18c. Switchover is supported. The switchover is divided into two scenarios outside the planned kernel plan.

Planed switchover: it can be cut back and used mainly to balance the load of the CDB.

Unplanned switchover: mainly for the PDB master failure, do not switch the entire CDB.

14. PDB Snapshot Carousel

The pdb snapshot backup carousel, reserves 8 copies and is backed up every 24 hours by default.

ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE SNAPSHOT MODE EVERY 24 HOURS;

15. New Default Location of Oracle Database Password File

Note that the new password file path is already in ORACLE_BASE, not ORACLE_HOME.

16. Read-Only Oracle Home

You can use dbca or roohctl -enable to install read only oracle home.Run the orabasehomecommand to check if the current Oracle Home is read-only. If the output of this command is the same as $ORACLE_HOME, Oracle Home is read-write. If the output is ORACLE_BASE/homes/HOME_NAME, Oracle Home is read-only.

17. Online Merging of Partitions and Subpartitions

Supports online consolidation of partitions and the ONLINE keyword is required.

18. Concurrent SQL Execution with SQL Performance Analyzer

The SPA can run in parallel (by default, it is serial), helping you to complete the SPA test faster.

(D) Performance

19. Automatic In-Memory

this feature evicts the infrequently accessed IM columns out of memory in the situation of memory insufficiency, based on the Heat Map.

20. Database In-Memory Support for External Tables

External tables support IM features.

21. Memoptimized Rowstore

There is a memoptimize pool area in the SGA. The size is set by the MEMOPTIMIZE_POOL_SIZE parameter. When fast lookup is turned on, the memory area can be used for quick search.

Open fast lookup, need to add keywords in the table statement:

fast lookup would be used based on the primary key query

Memoptimized Rowstore will greatly improve the high-frequency query based on the primary key in the Internet of Things.

(E) RAC and Grid

22. ASM Database Cloning

You can clone pdb based on ASM. Use the flex diskgroup to achieve.

23. Converting Normal or High Redundancy Disk Groups to Flex Disk Groups without Restricted Mount

We think use the Flex disk groups is great.

(f) Security

24. Integration of Active Directory Services with Oracle Database

Combined with Microsoft’s AD.

Before 18c, interaction with Oracle Enterprise User Security (EUS) was required. Now, you can use the centrally managed users (CMU) to mappiing the AD users and groups directly with the Oracle users and roles.

(G) Others

25. Add initialization parameters:

ADG_ACCOUNT_INFO_TRACKING

FORWARD_LISTENER

INMEMORY_AUTOMATIC_LEVEL

INMEMORY_OPTIMIZED_ARITHMETIC

MEMOPTIMIZE_POOL_SIZE

MULTISHARD_QUERY_DATA_CONSISTENCY

OPTIMIZER_IGNORE_HINTS

OPTIMIZER_IGNORE_PARALLEL_HINTS

PARALLEL_MIN_DEGREE

PRIVATE_TEMP_TABLE_PREFIX

STANDBY_PDB_SOURCE_FILE_DBLINK

STANDBY_PDB_SOURCE_FILE_DIRECTORY

TDE_CONFIGURATION

UNIFIED_AUDIT_SYSTEMLOG

WALLET_ROOT

It’s worth mentioning OPTIMIZER_IGNORE_PARALLEL_HINTS. In a pure OLTP system, you can finally disable developers’ uncontrolled concurrency (often not writing concurrency). 🙂

26. dbms_session.sleep

Exec dbms_session.sleep(3);

Finally, it is no longer necessary to grant grants for dbms_lock separately.

Until here the article. Thanks for Reading!

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