Oracle Server Support
The Oracle Server provides a number of new features. In general, the features
are in these categories:
- Greater scalability. For example, Oracle databases can contain tens of terabytes
of data, and can support simultaneous access by up to 10000 users. Tables
themselves can now contain up to 1000 columns. CHAR and VARCHAR2 datatypes
can now be up to 2000 and 4000 bytes, respectively.
- Greater performance and efficiency. Use of these Oracle features is handled
for you and requires no actions on your part. You automatically receive the
speed and reliability benefits of having your data on the Oracle Server.
- Large objects (sometimes called LOBs)
- User-defined objects.
Continued support for Oracle7
Oracle7 Server features are still supported (Release 7.3.4 and later).
Related topic
Scalability and performance
with Oracle