Chapter 3. Tibero 6 FixSet06
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Chapter 3. Tibero 6 FixSet06

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3.1. New Functions
3.1.1. DBMS Engine
3.1.2. Client Drivers
3.1.3. Utilities
3.2. Modified Functions
3.2.1. DBMS Engine

This chapter describes functions added to or modified in Tibero 6 FixSet06.

3.1. New Functions

The following describes new functions added to Tibero 6 FixSet06.

3.1.1. DBMS Engine

The following functions have been added.

  • Tibero Active Storage (TAS)

    • Added the view that shows jobs running on all disk spaces mounted by a TAS instance.

    • Can authenticate an ascmd user.

    • Can back up and recover TAS meta data.

  • Tibero Standby Cluster (TSC)

    • Can switchover between TAC and TSC.

  • DATA

    • Can compress, encrypt, and deduplicate LOB data.

  • DD/DDL

    • Added the [ALL|USER|DBA]_TYPE_VERSIONS catalog views.

    • Added the [ALL|USER|DBA]_TAB_COLS views.

    • Added the NUM_NULLS column to the [ALL|USER|DBA]_TAB_COLUMNS views.

    • Added the PARAMETERS, DOMIDX_STATUS, and DOMIDX_OPSTATUS columns to the [ALL|USER|DBA]_INDEXES views.

    • Added the TABLE_NAME column that has the same values as in the OBJECT_NAME column to the [ALL|USER|DBA]_CATALOG views.

    • Added the ELAPSED_TIME and END_TIME columns to the V$SESSION_LONGOPS view.

    • Added the BANNER column to the V$VERSION view.

    • Added the LTSN and ITSN columns related to DD versioning to the V$DDCACHE_INFO view.

    • Added the GV$SQL view.

    • Can use ALTER statements for external tables.

    • Added DDL statments for deferrable constraints.

    • Can encrypt a user password.

    • Added the disable option for the CREATE TRIGGER statement.

  • Executor

    • Can use partition outer join.

    • Can perform partial sort.

    • Added the xmlsequence(extract(xmltype)) function.

    • Supports the following deferred constraints.

      • not null constraint

      • check constraint

    • Added the SYS_TYPEID function.

  • Frame

    • Can check NULL for the AGNT deadlock detection logic.

    • Can retrieve OS statistics.

      • Added the COMMENTS column and statistics data about CPU and TCP to the V$OSSTAT2 view.

      • Added the CPU_NAME, PLATFORM_NAME, IP_ADDRESS, and OS_UPTIME columns to the V$DATABASE view.

    • Can get a host address with the USERENV function.

  • Character Set

    • Added MSWIN1253, MSWIN1256, ISO-8859-6, and ISO-8859-7 character sets.

  • Optimizer

    • Added the USE_CONCAT and NO_EXPAND hints.

    • Added partial Indexes.

    • Implemented range partition pruning for LIKE.

    • Can collect statistics about table subpartitions with DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS.

    • Added the block_sample parameter to the GATHER_[TABLE|SCHEMA|DICTIONARY|DATABASE]_STATS procedures in the DBMS_STATS package.

    • Added the url_charset parameter to the ESCAPE and UNESCAPE functions in the UTL_URL package.

    • Can use the relies_on function for a query result cache.

    • Added the DBMS_ALERT function.

  • PSM

    • Can inherit PSM objects.

    • Added the OWA_UTIL.WHO_CALLED_ME procedure.

    • Added the TO_NCHAR function.

    • Added DBMS_UTILITY.CURRENT_INSTANCE and DBMS_UTILITY.DB_VERSION.

  • Recovery

    • Can perform a hot backup for multiple tablespaces.

  • Recovery Manager (RMGR)

    • Removes relevant data files if a backup fails.

    • Added the V$BACKUPSET view.

    • Can perform a backup or recovery in parallel.

  • TPR (Tibero Performance Repository)

    • Added 'YES' and 'NO' to the TSC item in a TPR report.

3.1.2. Client Drivers

The following functions have been added.

  • JDBC

    • Can use a query to check a gateway.

    • Supports the following character sets.

      ClassificationCharacter Set
      ISO 8859-7Latin/Greek
      ISO 8859-6Latin/Arabic
      Windows-1253Windows Greek
      Windows-1256Windows Arabic

3.1.3. Utilities

The following functions have been added.

  • tbLoader

    • Added the NULLIF clause.

    • Can load data in parallel with an option.

  • tbExport/tbImport

    • Can export and import schemas and table statistics in the full database, user, and table modes.

    • Can encrypt data.

3.2. Modified Functions

The following describes functions modified in Tibero 6 FixSet06.

3.2.1. DBMS Engine

The following functions have been improved.

  • Optimizer

    • Adjusts too small sample_size created according to estimate_percent specified in DBMS_STATS by a user. This prevents performance decrease.

    • Can refresh MView of another schema by using the privilege to access the schema and its synonym.

    • Improved the selectivity prediction function.

  • DDL

    • Improved using the block space when executing the "MULTI INSERT" statement.

  • PSM

    • Removed FUNCTION from the list of reserved words.

  • Parser

    • Can use the PARALLEL hint for the "MERGE INTO" statement.

    • Can use the outer join operator (+) along with the TABLE() function.

    • Improved the DBMS_AQ package.

      • Can use the object type of payload for AQ.

      • Can enqueue and dequeue object values.

      • Can configure retention_time for a single consumer queue.

  • Tibero Cluster Manager (TBCM)

    Modified the connection path between Tibero and CM.

    • Before modification

      Interconnect IP:PORT

    • After modification

      localhost IP:CM_UI_PORT
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