Oracle9i Features

The Oracle9i family of database products introduced new features such as partitioned tables and indexes (the ability to break each table and index into pieces by a key value and locate across many disk drives). Oracle9i also contains enhancements to previous versions of Oracle such as a new partitioning feature known as list partitioning, enhancements to read-consistency known as Deja-view, additional buffer pools, multiple block sizes, and major enhancements to Log Miner.

Oracle9i has a new feature called data pump that allows for operating-system files to be viewed by Oracle as a relational table. Oracle9i also introduces XML as well as support for Java and SQLJ into the Oracle database environment. Java is one of today's ...

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