New Features in SAP Release 6.10 (SAP Library - SAP Database Guide: Oracle (BC-DB-ORA-DBA))

New Features in SAP Release 6.10

There are the following new features in SAP Release 6.10:

BRARCHIVE support for backup of offline redo log files with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

This enables you to develop a comprehensive strategy for database files and offline redo log files. You can also take advantage of internal block consistency checking by RMAN for offline redo log files.

Software compression for backups on remote disk

This helps to reduce the network traffic load required for backups. For more information, see backup_dev_type.

Support of util_file_online logic for offline backups

This enables you to fully implement split-mirror and snapshot scenarios in BACKINT.

New user interface for BRCONNECT

The main new functions are:

Database system check

Adapt next extents

Update statistics

Clean up old logs and traces

For more information about the new commands, see Command Options for BRCONNECT.

Support for the following new features in SAPDBA:

Partitioned objects – for more information, see:

Reorganization with SAPDBA

Export and Import of Database Objects with SAPDBA

Reorganization of index-organized tables

Creation and extension of locally managed (that is, "bitmap") tablespaces and reorganization of locally managed tablespaces.

New "rebuild online" option for index reorganization

Reorganization of new index types, bitmap and reverse – for more information, see Reorganizing a Single Table or Index

Veritas Quick I/O to administer files from file systems as if they were raw devices