Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS..............................................................................................................................1 Release Notes.......................................................................................................................................................2 January 2006.......................................................................................................................................................3 Contents...............................................................................................................................................................4 Preface..................................................................................................................................................................5 Purpose of This Manual.....................................................................................................................................6 Intended Audience..............................................................................................................................................7 Document Structure............................................................................................................................................8 Chapter 1Installing Oracle Rdb Release 7.2....................................................................................................9 1.1 Oracle Rdb on HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64..............................................................................10 1.2 Requirements...............................................................................................................................................11 1.3 Database Format Changed.........................................................................................................................12 1.4 Using Databases from Releases Earlier than V7.0...................................................................................13 1.5 Deinstall Any Prior PCSI−installed Kit....................................................................................................14 1.6 Invoking the VMSINSTAL Procedure.....................................................................................................15 1.7 Stopping the Installation............................................................................................................................16 1.8 After Installing Oracle Rdb.......................................................................................................................17 1.9 Maximum OpenVMS Version Check.......................................................................................................18 1.10 VMS$MEM_RESIDENT_USER Rights Identifier Required..............................................................19 1.11 Installation, Configuration, Migration, Upgrade Suggestions..............................................................20 1.12 Sample Installation Dialogue...................................................................................................................23 Chapter 2Enhancements And Changes Provided in Oracle Rdb Release 7.2.............................................28 2.1 Enhancements And Changes Provided in Oracle Rdb Release 7.2........................................................29 2.1.1 Default Floating Point Format......................................................................................................29 2.1.2 Features Not Yet Available for OpenVMS I64............................................................................30 2.1.3 Expect Additional Memory Consumption....................................................................................30 i Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents 2.1 Enhancements And Changes Provided in Oracle Rdb Release 7.2 2.1.4 Handling of Initialized Overlaid Program Sections on OpenVMS I64........................................30 2.1.5 Deleted Space in Uniform Areas Not Reclaimed by Other Users................................................31 2.1.6 AIP Entries Cached for Improved Performance...........................................................................31 2.1.7 Improved Rollback Performance..................................................................................................32 2.1.8 Index Prefetching Performance Improvements............................................................................32 2.1.9 Performance Improvement for Query with Constant Boolean Predicates....................................33 2.1.10 Index Column Group is Enabled by Default...............................................................................34 2.1.11 No File−System Caching When Writing Database and AIJ Backup Files.................................34 2.1.12 Estimation Refinement Rules are Enabled by Default...............................................................34 2.1.13 New LIMIT TO Syntax..............................................................................................................36 2.1.14 Additional %CDD−I−BLRSYNINFO Integrating with CDD....................................................38 2.1.15 RMU Unload Record_Definition Accepts TRIM Option...........................................................38 2.1.16 Maximum Page and Buffer Size Increases.................................................................................39 2.1.17 Various I/O Sizes Increased........................................................................................................39 2.1.18 New Statistics for the Oracle Rdb Executive..............................................................................39 2.1.19 RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Enhanced Navigation Between Row Caches...............................40 2.1.20 RMU SHOW LOCKS /RESOURCE_TYPE Qualifier..............................................................40 2.1.21 RMU Command Qualifiers Accept Absolute or Delta Date/Time Specification.......................42 2.1.22 64−bit Statistics...........................................................................................................................43 2.1.23 Maximum Global Buffer Count Increased.................................................................................43 2.1.24 Support for WORM (Write Once Read Many) Storage Removed.............................................43 2.1.25 Support for ACE (AIJ Cache on Electronic disk) Removed......................................................44 2.1.26 RMU Support for /DENSITY = SDLT320.................................................................................44 2.1.27 Sequential Scan Statistics...........................................................................................................44 2.1.28 RDB$SHOVER, RDB$SETVER, SQL$SETVER Temporary Files.........................................45 2.1.29 Logical RDM$BIND_RW_TX_CHECKPOINT_ADVANCE Removed.................................45 2.1.30 Backup File Encryption..............................................................................................................45 2.1.30.1 Commands Accepting /ENCRYPT...................................................................................46 2.1.30.2 Examples...........................................................................................................................47 2.1.31 RMU /POPULATE_CACHE Command /[NO]ONLY_CACHED Qualifier............................47 2.1.32 RMU/SHOW LOCKS Includes Time and Node Name.............................................................48 2.1.33 Default /ROW_COUNT Increased for RMU/UNLOAD and RMU/LOAD..............................49 Chapter 3Software Errors Fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.2........................................................................50 3.1 Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces...............................................................................51 3.1.1 Various Sequence Generation Problems Fixed.............................................................................51 3.1.2 Various Errors Using Read Only Areas with Global Buffers.......................................................52 3.1.3 Enhancement for HASH ORDERED Index of BIGINT Column................................................53 3.1.4 RMU /SHOW LOCKS Limits Relaxed........................................................................................53 3.2 SQL Errors Fixed.......................................................................................................................................54 3.2.1 %SQL−F−UNSDATASS When ALIAS Defined With COMPILETIME PATHNAME............54 3.2.2 SQL Module Language /PROTOTYPES Now Generates INT64 for BIGINT Parameters.........55 3.2.3 Unexpected Column Ordering Generated by ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN Statements.............................................................................................................................................56 ii Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents 3.3 RMU Errors Fixed......................................................................................................................................58 3.3.1 RMU /UNLOAD Qualifier /REOPEN_COUNT..........................................................................58 3.3.2 RMU /LOAD /STATISTICS=ON_COMMIT.............................................................................58 Chapter 4Known Problems and Restrictions.................................................................................................59