Summary

This chapter reviewed the important new features of Oracle Database 10g (Releases 1 and 2) and the processes that support these features. The major architectural changes include performance improvement, storage management, system resources, application tuning, and recovery management. ADDM and AWR are the key improvements to this Oracle version; they support the automatic diagnosis and correction of performance problems. Now that you have an overview of all the new features of Oracle Database 10g, we will proceed to the various installation processes for a database.