What's New

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information.

New features in Release 11.2.1.8.0

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1.8.0 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information.

You can create or drop a table, index or synonym in an active standby pair without stopping the replication agent. You can choose to have these statements replicated to the standby database. You can include a table in an active standby pair when the table is created. See the following statements for more details:

• "ALTER SESSION"

• "ALTER ACTIVE STANDBY PAIR"

• "CREATE TABLE"

• "ALTER TABLE"

• "DROP TABLE"

• "CREATE INDEX"

• "DROP INDEX"

• "CREATE SYNONYM"

• "DROP SYNONYM"

New features in Release 11.2.1.7.0

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1.7.0 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information:

• The CALL statement is now documented to cover how to execute the TimesTen built-in procedures and how to execute PL/SQL procedures and functions. See "CALL" for more information.

• The SYS_CONTEXT expression can now be used to retrieve the connection ID. See "SYS_CONTEXT" for details.

• Explicit load for a global cache group is now enabled. For details, see "CREATE CACHE GROUP" for more information.

New features in Release 11.2.1.6.0

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1.6.0 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information:

• The system tables and replication tables are now documented in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database System Tables and Limits Reference.

• You can modify the REPLICATION_TRACK session parameter for parallel replication with the ALTER SESSION statement. See ALTER SESSION for more details.

New features in Release 11.2.1.4.0

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1.4.0 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information:

• You can create synonyms for database objects including tables, views, sequences, PL/SQL stored procedures, PL/SQL functions, PL/SQL packages, materialized views and cache groups. For more information, see:

  • CREATE SYNONYM

  • DROP SYNONYM

  • CREATE ANY SYNONYM, CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM, DROP ANY SYNONYM and DROP PUBLIC SYNONYM system privileges in Table 6-1, "System privileges"

• Time-based aging can now be specified for tables and cache groups in units of seconds as well as minutes, hours, and days. See the ALTER TABLE, CREATE TABLE, and CREATE CACHE GROUP statements.

• If privileges on a table owned by one user are revoked from another user, the associated materialized views owned by the second user are marked invalid. See "Invalid materialized views".

New features in Release 11.2.1.1.0

This section lists new features for Release 11.2.1.1.0 that are documented in this reference and provides cross-references to additional information.

Access Control

• New system privileges and object privileges. See Chapter 6, "Privileges". Also see "Required privileges" for each SQL statement in Chapter 5, "SQL Statements".

• New syntax for ALTER USER, CREATE USER, DROP USER, GRANT and REVOKE statements

• Revised reserved words. See Chapter 7, "Reserved Words".

PL/SQL support

The ALTER SESSION statement has been enhanced.

These statements are new:

• ALTER FUNCTION

• ALTER PACKAGE

• ALTER PROCEDURE

• CREATE FUNCTION

• CREATE PACKAGE

• CREATE PACKAGE BODY

• CREATE PROCEDURE

• DROP FUNCTION

• DROP PACKAGE [BODY]

• DROP PROCEDURE

These SQL functions are new:

• SYS_CONTEXT

• UID

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache (IMDB Cache)

These IMDB Cache features are new:

• Dynamic cache groups: In a dynamic cache group, new cache instances are loaded manually into the TimesTen cache tables using a load operation, or on demand using a dynamic load operation. See:

  • CREATE CACHE GROUP

  • LOAD CACHE GROUP

  • REFRESH CACHE GROUP

  • UNLOAD CACHE GROUP

• Cache grid: A cache grid is a collection of TimesTen databases that collectively manage the application data using the relational data model. A cache grid consists of one or more grid members each backed by a TimesTen database. See "CREATE CACHE GROUP".

• Global cache groups: In a global cache group, data in the cache tables are shared among TimesTen databases within a cache grid. See "CREATE CACHE GROUP".

Asynchronous materialized views

Materialized views can be refreshed asynchronously. The CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement has been enhanced. These statements are new:

• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG

• DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG

• REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW

RETURNING ... INTO clause

The DELETE, INSERT and UPDATE statements have been enhanced with the RETURNING...INTO clause.

ROWID data type

The ROWID data type has been implemented. See "ROWID data type".

Duplicate parameter names

TimesTen offers Oracle-style behavior for duplicated parameter names. See "Duplicate parameter names".

Bitmap indexes

You can create bitmap indexes. See "CREATE INDEX".

Set operators in subqueries

Set operators are allowed in subqueries. See "Subqueries".

Enhanced ":" parameter markers

":" parameter markers have been enhanced. See "Dynamic parameters".

Multiline C-style comments

You can use multiline C-style comments in SQL statements. See "Comments within SQL statements".

View and sequence names

A view and a sequence cannot have the same name. See "CREATE VIEW" and "CREATE SEQUENCE".