From InfoWorld:
I expect most Oracle Database shops will find at least five of these life changers in Oracle Database 11g. But there’s one feature, Real Application Testing, that’s so compelling, it’s almost enough reason to upgrade on its own. There’s not a shop out there that doesn’t make code changes, and they all need a solid way of reproducing production workloads to certify those changes without affecting the production environment. Real Application Testing does the trick.
Combining Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer, Real Application Testing allows you to capture a workload and its performance stats and replay it, either on the same box or on another box, and compare the performance results. This level of insight into comparative workloads is something that most database vendors are still struggling with.
OK, so there is great improvements in overall usability, data corruption protection in Data Guard and workload replay (cool feature) et cetera but, what about security? Nope no mention. I wonder what David Litchfield, Pete Finnigan and others will have to say about it?
