Re: Oracle database version history

How the heck did Tanel manage to learn so much after being born in 1978?
Because he didn't have to listen to disco...  :-)


on 1/29/04 7:19 PM, Mladen Gogala at mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
>> Oracle 5 - 1986
>>  - Client Server
>>  - Cluster support (VAX)
> 
> Nope. Cluster  wasn't supported with V5. Cluster support
> came with  Oracle 6.2. That was the first OPS version and
> was VAX/VMS-only.

[TG]: Mladen, sorry to contradict, but Tanel is correct.  V5 had the first
clustered database on VAX/VMS.  Wasn't pretty, but it had a pulse...

V6.2 was indeed the first version of the Parallel Server product, available
originally on VAX/VMS and later on NCR Unix.  Had a financial services
company here in Denver using V6.2 OPS on NCR (crazy bahstahds).  Naturally,
I wanted to hire the DBA out of sheer admiration...

> 
> 
>> 
>> Oracle 6 -1989
>>  - Online backup & recovery
>>  - Row level locking, stored PL/SQL
> 
> Nope. PL/SQL  wasn't stored in V6, it was executed in SQL*Forms30,
> if anyone still remembers the good, old INP files instead of the
> stupid *.FMB stuff.

[TG]: Sorry to contradict both of you, but the PL/SQL that was available in
the database server was not stored, and it wasn't only available in
SQL*Forms.  It was available in the database server as "anonymous" blocks
(i.e. starting with BEGIN or DECLARE keywords) in v6.  In v7 came packages,
procedures, and functions;  in v6, you created big ol' SQL*Plus scripts to
run them the "anonymous" blocks.

Mladen is correct that procedures in PL/SQL were available in SQL*Forms v3.0
and SQL*ReportWriter v1.x also, on the client side...

> 
>>  - Parallel Server
>> 
>> The rest you know ;)

Well, for those who don't know, here are some more milestones...

More for Oracle6 (1989):

    - hot backups (not certain about this -- could have been v5)

v7.0 (1992):

    - basic replication (a.k.a. snapshots)
    - stored PL/SQL packages, procedures, and functions
    - database triggers
    - direct-path SQL*Loader
    - cost-based optimizer
    - the Shared Pool in the SGA

v7.1 (1994):
    - parallel queries
    - parallel direct-path SQL*Loader
    - parallel index creation
    - parallel instance recovery
    - Symmetric (multi-master) replication
    - the Large Pool in the SGA

V7.2 (1995):
    - parallel CREATE TABLE AS SELECT

v7.3 (1996):
    - parallel INSERT /*+ APPEND */
    - bitmap indexes
    - partition UNION-ALL views
    - ALTER INDEX REBUILD
    - Oracle Enterprise Backup Utility (OEBU)
    - Standby Database

v8.0 (1997):
    - range partitioning
    - Recovery Manager (RMAN)
    - INSTEAD OF triggers on views
    - REVERSE indexes
    - parallel UPDATE and DELETE

v8.1 (1999):
    - hash partitioning
    - composite range-hash subpartitioning
    - DDL and database-event triggers
    - materialized views and query rewrite
    - function-based indexes

...to name a few...

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