Oracle unveils software to update database

Oracle India has released Database 10g Release 2, the latest update to its
database. The product will include enhanced availability, manageability and
performance and security features to help customers and partners achieve high
levels of efficiency from their IT investments.

With this, new sorting techniques will improve the performance of all
operations doing sorting, such as queries and index creation, and may eliminate
the need for costly pre-load sort operations.

The product will also feature an open Application Program Interface (API) for
Oracle's clusterware—Cluster Ready Services—that will enable higher
application availability. New backup and recovery capabilities in Release 2 will
augment the existing backup-to-disk operations by also automating
backup-to-tape, reducing the need for complex backup environments. New automated
fail over capabilities will also improve a site's ability to come back online
quickly after a disaster, even in unattended environments. It will build on
manageability features by Automatic Storage Management that simplifies the
optimal configuration and management of storage for the database, reducing
administrators' workload.

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