Question: What is the difference between Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g.

What differences are there in options between 9i and 10g? I'm considering a migration to 10g and I need to get a list of all differences. Answer: Each release of Oracle has many differences, and Oracle 10g is a major re-write of the Oracle kernel from Oracle 9i. I keep a list of the differences and make sure to see these important differences when migrating from 9i to Oracle 10g. While there are several hundred new features and other differences between 9i and 10g, here are the major differences between Oracle9i and Oracle10g:

Major changes to SQL optimizer internals Oracle Grid computing AWR and ASH tables incorporated into Oracle Performance Pack and Diagnostic Pack options Automated Session History (ASH) materializes the Oracle Wait Interface over time Data Pump replaces imp utility with impdp Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) SQLTuning Advisor SQLAccess Advisor Rolling database upgrades (using Oracle10g RAC) dbms_scheduler package replaces dbms_job for scheduling

Other notes on differences between 9i and 10g:

Oracle New Features by release

New Features of Oracle10g release 2: Web server load balancing - The web cache component includes Apache extension to load-balance transactions to the least-highly-loaded Oracle HTTP server (OHS). RAC instance load balancing - Staring in Oracle 10g release 2, Oracle JDBC and ODP.NET provide connection pool load balancing facilities through integration with the new load balancing advisory tool. This replaces the more-cumbersome listenerbased load balancing technique. Automated Storage Load balancing - Oracles Automatic Storage Management (SAM) now enables a single storage pool to be shared by multiple databases for optimal load balancing. Shared disk storage resources can alternatively be assigned to individual databases and easily moved from one database to another as processing requirements change. Data Guard Load Balancing Oracle Dataguard allows for load balancing between standby databases. Listener Load Balancing - If advanced features such as load balancing and automatic failover are desired, there are optional sections of the listener.ora file that must be present. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) includes multiple disk operations and a non-ASM database migration utility

Enhancements to data provisioning and Oracle Streams designed to make it easier to archive, move, and copy large data sets New Fast-Start Failover for automatic fail over to standby databases Integrated data encryption and key management in the database Automated statistics collection directly from memory designed to eliminate the need to execute SQL queries New administrative reports include automatic database workload repository comparison Extended use of Standard Chunk sizes - In 10gR2, the server has been enhanced to further leverage standard chunk allocation sizes. This additional improvement reduces the number of problems arising from memory fragmentation. Mutexes - To improve cursor execution and also hard parsing, a new memory serialization mechanism has been created in 10gR2. For certain shared-cursor related operations, mutexes are used as a replacement for library cache latches and librarycache pins. Using mutexes is faster, uses less CPU and also allows significantly improved concurrency over the existing latch mechanism. The use of mutexes for cursor pins can be enabled by setting the init.ora parameter _use_kks_mutex to TRUE. V$SGASTAT - V$SGASTAT has been enhanced to display a finer granularity of memory to component allocation within the shared pool. This allows faster diagnosis of memory usage (in prior releases many smaller allocations were grouped under the miscellaneous heading). V$SQLSTAT - A new view, V$SQLSTAT has been introduced which contains SQL related statistics (such as CPU time, elapsed time, sharable memory). This view is very cheap to query even on high-concurrency systems, as it does not require librarycache latch use. It contains the most frequently used SQL statistics in the V$SQL family of views. V$OPEN_CURSOR - This implementation of this view has also been enhanced to be latchless, making it inexpensive to query. V$SQLAREA - The V$SQLAREA view has been improved in 10gR2; the view optimizes the aggregation of the SQL statements while generating the view data.

New Features in Oracle10g release 10.1.0

Oracle10g Grid RAC enhanced for Oracle10g dynamic scalability with server blades

Completely reworked 10g Enterprise Manager (OEM) AWR and ASH tables incorporated into OEM Performance Pack and Diagnostic Pack options Automated Session History (ASH) materializes the Oracle Wait Interface over time Data Pump replaces imp utility with impdp Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) Automatic Storage Management (ASM) introduced Stripe And Mirror Everywhere (SAME) standard Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) replaces STATSPACK SQLTuning Advisor SQLAccess Advisor Rolling database upgrades (using Oracle10g RAC) dbms_scheduler package replaces dbms_job for scheduling OEM Partition Manager introduced

Miscellaneous Oracle10g enhancements:

Set Database Default Tablespace syntax Rename Tablespace command Introduced RECYCLEBIN command for storing objects before they are dropped. Required new PURGE command for maintenance. sqlplus / as sysdba accessibility without quote marks SYSAUX tablespace Multiple Temporary Tablespaces supported to reduce stress on sorting in TEMP RMAN introduces compression for backups New drop database syntax New alter database begin backup syntax Oracle10g Data Guard Broker introduced Oracle10g RAC supports secure Redo Log transport Flashback enhancements for flashback database and flashback table syntax SQL Apply feature VPD (FGAC, RLS) supports both row-level and column-level VPD Cross Platform Transportable Tablespaces External Table unload utility SQL Regular Expression Support with the evaluate syntax New ROW TIMESTAMP column Improvement to SSL handshake speed Automatic Database Tuning of Checkpoints, Undo Segments and shared memory Automated invoking of dbms_stats for CBO statistics collection RAC introduces Integrated Cluster ware Oracle Application Builder supports HTML DB Browser Based Data Workshop and SQL Workshop PL/SQL Compiler enhanced for compile-time Warnings in utl_mail and utl_compress VPD (FGAC, RLS) supports both row-level and column-level VPD External Table unload utility SQL Regular Expression Support with the evaluate syntax

New ROW TIMESTAMP column