From: markbtownsend@comcast.net   
      
   Jack wrote:   
   > Does anyone know what the big ORCL database features are really   
   > intended to support OLAP or reporting requirements...so far I   
   > have:   
   >   
   > * Query re-write   
   > * Materialized Views   
   > * Bitmap Indexing   
   > * Read Consistency – a previous pilot was required to use NSK "READ   
   > UNCOMMITTED" to get any sort of viable performance, which implies   
   > dirty reads (typically handled with rollback segments in Oracle)   
   > * Data concurrency: Readers don't block readers, readers don't block   
   > writers, writers don't block readers.   
   > * Rollback - undo any uncommitted changes made by a transaction. The   
   > transaction is ended.   
   >   
   > Are there others I should consider ?   
   >   
   > Thanks,   
   >   
   > Jack   
      
      
   SQL Analytics   
   Partitioning (option)   
   Parallel Operations   
   Data Compression   
   OLAP (Option)   
   Data Mining (Option)   
   There are more ......   
      
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