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October, 2003 - Oracle releases Rdb version 7.1.2
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New Features and Technical Changes (Rdb V7.1.2)
	Enhancements provided in Oracle Rdb release 7.1.2.
1.1	New NVL2 expression.
1.2	SET DEFAULT CONSTRAINT MODE enhancements.
1.3	New dialect ORACLE LEVEL2 added.
1.4	RMONSTOP71.COM Parameter for RMU/MONITOR STOP command.
1.5	RMU/UNLOAD/AFTER_JOURNAL output flush.
1.6	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS enhanced to show large memory setting.
1.7	Statistics collection performance improvement for AlphaServer GS systems.
1.8	RMU RECOVER accepts wildcard After-image Journal file specifications and ORDER_AIJ_FILES qualifier.
1.9	RMU/SHOW STATISTICS page dump content and format enhancements.
1.10	Enhancement to prestarted transaction timeout.
1.11	RDM$BIND_SNAP_QUIET_POINT logical no longer Used.
1.12	New SET CONTINUE CHARACTER statement for interactive SQL.
1.13	OPTIMIZE clause enhancements.
1.14	New Options for the OPTIMIZATION_LEVEL qualifier.
1.15	SET OPTIMIZATION LEVEL enhancements.
1.16	RMU Load now supports SELECTIVITY option for OPTIMIZE Qualifier.
1.17	New options supported for LOGMINER SUPPORT clause.
1.18	Changes to the IMPORT command.
1.19	ALTER MODULE statement.
1.20	New RENAME statement.
1.21	New Warning generated when row size exceeds row cache length.
1.22	Oracle media management V2.0 API for Oracle Rdb RMU.
1.23	Commands accepting /LIBRARIAN.
1.24	Opaque archive application.
1.25	RMU backup streams.
1.26	Parallel backup operations.
1.27	Data stream naming considerations.
1.28	/LIBRARIAN parameters.
1.29	Logical names To access LIBRARIAN application.
1.30	SQL/Services required for RMU parallel backup.
1.31	Listing and deleting data streams.
1.32	Sanity checks added to RMU /VERIFY to check TSNs and CSNs.
1.33	RMU /CLOSE /WAIT /NOCLUSTER now allowed.
1.34	Native 64-bit Virtual Addressing for row caches.
1.35	64-bit addressing no application or database Changes required.
1.36	Deprecated Attributes.
1.37	Snapshots In Row Cache.
1.38	Performance Enhancements for RMU /RECOVER with optimized After-Image Journals.
1.39	Enhancements to INSERT FILENAME for LIST OF BYTE VARYING Data.
1.40	Default for RMU CRC Qualifier Changed to /CRC = AUTODIN_II.
1.41	New LIKE clause added to CREATE TABLE.
1.42	Enhancements to statistical functions.
1.43	RMU /VERIFY enhanced to detect sequence problems.
1.44	New Procedure RDB$IMAGE_VERSIONS.COM.

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Problems Corrected (Rdb V7.1.2)
	Software errors fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.1.2
2.1	Software errors fixed that apply to all interfaces.
2.2	Area access fails after online storage area creation.
2.3	Page Transfer via memory feature now available.
2.4	UNION Query with two left outer joins in first leg returns wrong results.
2.5	Error %RDMS-E-NOSOL_FOUND in Full Outer join query.
2.6	Query with EXISTS clause and COMPUTED BY column returns wrong results.
2.7	Bugcheck in DIO$FREE_CURRENT_LOCK for sorted ranked indexes.
2.8	Illegal page count error in the dynamic optimizer.
2.9	Ranked index overflow node corruption on insert.
2.10	Incorrect results from a reverse scan on a ranked index.
2.11	Restriction removed for READ ONLY transaction on standby database
2.12	Bugcheck at PSIINDEX$FIND_ENTS_EXACT + 54.
2.13	AIJ Log server process may loop or bugcheck.
2.14	SYSTEM-F-NOIOCHAN Error.
2.15	ROLLBACK not appended to AIJ for failed 2PC transactions.
2.16	Bugcheck at LCK$MEMBIT_BLAST + 023C with exception of COSI-F-IVLOCKID
2.17	Bugcheck when multiple tables are transitively joined with IS NULL Filter.
2.18	Unexpected error from GRANT and REVOKE.
2.19	Process can hang after SYS$FORCEX issued.
2.20	Show storage map "Lists_Map" partition display error
2.21	Incorrect cardinalities calculated by CREATE DATABASE.
2.22	ALTER INDEX fails with the RDMS-F-NOT_LARDY error.
2.23	Cannot drop close timer database.
2.24	Outer ORDER BY ignored in favor of inner ORDER BY clause.
2.25	Query Using IN clause with 16 filter predicates runs slower
2.26	PIOUTL$BUILD_IORB bugcheck adding mixed format storage area
2.27	Unexpected Bugcheck During CREATE SEQUENCE.
2.28	Bugcheck on dropping of an empty sorted ranked index.
2.29	Index estimation may not estimate the most useful index first
2.30	Premature switch to sequential retrieval in the dynamic optimizer
2.31	Poor performance from bulk loads after 7.1.0.1.
2.32	RDMRLE image not always supplied during installation.
2.33	SORT consumes all available memory.
2.34	Unexpected failure of the IDENTITY clause in CREATE TABLE.
2.35	Unexpected failure of INSERT for Table with IDENTITY after an IMPORT
2.36	Unexpected Privileges required using VLM or SSB features with OpenVMS Galaxy support enabled.
2.37	bugchecks at PIO$FETCH + 00000360.
2.38	DBR bugchecks at DBR$DDTM_RESOLVE + 000003F4.
2.39	Spurious CHECKSUM errors reading READ ONLY areas with global buffers.
2.40	Additional memory utilized for global buffers starting with Rdb release 7.1.0.4
2.41	Fields added to informational table RDB$CACHES.
2.42	Page locks not released when LOCKING IS PAGE LEVEL.
2.43	Potential bugcheck using VLM Global buffers with Galaxy support.
2.44	Incorrect retrieval of duplicates from ranked Indexes.
2.45	ALTER TABLE Statement May Fail if RESERVING clause used for transaction.
2.46	Processes not recovered after node failure.
2.47	DBR bugchecks at PIO$COMPLETE + 000002E4.
2.48	Left outer join query with CONCAT function returns wrong results.
2.49	RCS Bugchecks at DIOCCH$UNMARK_GRIC_ENT.
2.50	Query with sum function of two select counts bugchecks.
3	SQL Errors fixed.
3.1	DECLARE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE limited to 10 tables per session.
3.2	Unexpected ACCVIO when reporting incompatible character set assignments.
3.3	ALTER STORAGE MAP may fail with PARTEXTS error for LIST storage map.
3.4	Problems corrected in ALTER INDEX BUILD PARTITION.
3.5	INSERT into table with an IDENTITY column may fail with RDB$_NO_PRIV error.
3.6	IMPORT may generate ACCVIO exception during import of a module.
3.7	SELECT FOR UPDATE now supported by Oracle Rdb.
3.8	Unexpected failure from DROP STORAGE AREA CASCADE clause.
3.9	Create Module declaring integer variable's default with cast bugchecks.
3.10	Incorrect Unit for the DETECTED ASYNC PREFETCH THRESHOLD option.
3.11	DROP CONSTRAINT now operates on column and table constraint.
3.12	IVP or other failure with dynamic SQL if SQL$INT is Installed/RESIDENT.
3.13	CREATE INDEX Would Fail With READ_ONLY_FIELD error.
3.14	SQL Added padding spaces to saved source SQL statement.
3.15	ALTER TABLE caused AUTOMATIC UPDATE columns to be evaluated for all rows.
3.16	SQL-F-NODBFILE When SQL Modules are compiled with /CONNECT.
3.17	Concatenate now supports Non-character values in ORACLE LEVEL2.
3.18	RDB-E-REQ_NO_TRANS with multiple SQL modules and images.
4	RDO and RDML errors fixed.
4.1	RDML /DATE_TYPE qualifier default is now NOEMPTY_RECORDS.
4.2	RMU errors fixed.
4.3	Could not import statistics on different node.
4.4	RMU extract generates incorrect ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT syntax.
4.5	RMU/VERIFY/CONSTRAINTS problems with named tables and constraints.
4.6	RMU/BACKUP/PARALLEL/DISK_FILE did not work properly
4.7	RMU/BACKUP/DISK_FILE fails if too many writer threads
4.8	TRUNCATE TABLE and RMU /REPAIR corruption corrected.
4.9	AIJ backup file may not allow recovery of a restored database.
4.10	Domains required for SQL_FUNCTION not output by RMU extract
4.11	RMU/RESTORE bugchecks at LCK$STALL_FOR_ENQ + 0CC0.
4.12	Changes to RMU /CLOSE behavior.
4.13	May not be able to apply the next AIJ after doing RMU/RECOVER/RESOLVE /STATE multiple times.
4.14	RMU/EXTRACT/ITEM=DATABASE may not display snapshot file attributes
4.15	Recovery of empty optimized AIJ does not update the sequence number.
4.16	RMU/VERIFY not writing constraint verification failure warnings to /OUTPUT file.
4.17	RMU/COLLECT may default to a READ WRITE transaction.
4.18	RMU/CONVERT failed if VMS$MEM_RESIDENT_USER rights identifier not held.
4.19	Multi-Disk file restore could fail if READER_THREADS exceeded one.
4.20	RMU extract not extracting modules correctly when MATCH option used.
4.21	Recovery of database with fixed AIJs after convert to V7.1 could lose data.
4.22	Some database backup files created with LZSS compression could not be restored.
4.23	RMU verify access violation allocating memory for Expanding a Storage Record.
5	LogMiner errors fixed.
5.1	LogMiner elimination of processing unneeded AIJ files.
5.2	Replication Option and LogMiner features active at the same time
5.3	RMU /UNLOAD /AFTER_JOURNAL created .RRD content clarification.
5.4	/TRANSACTION_TYPE qualifier for RMU/UNLOAD /AFTER_JOURNAL.
6	Row cache errors fixed.
6.1	Storage area grows despite row erasure when using row cache.
6.2	Logical area record erasure count not updated for cached rows.
6.3	Commit performance improvement with row cache feature.
RMU/SET	ROW_CACHE command updates.
7	RMU show statistics errors fixed.
7.1	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS writes invalid configuration file.
7.2	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS /DEADLOCK_LOG does not record first deadlock occurrence.
7.3	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS row cache overview integer overflow.
7.4	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS "Device Information" screen bugchecks in playback mode.
7.5	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Limiting multi-page report.
7.6	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Misleading maximum values after RESET or UNRESET.
7.7	Enhancement to transaction duration display when written to report.
7.8	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS Bugcheck in KUTDIS$UPDATE_RS.
7.9	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS 95th percentile transaction duration less than 0.40 seconds.
7.10	"RUJ File Writes" statistic not accurate
7.11	RMU /SHOW STATISTICS custom (Yanked) value double of value reported in original screen.
8	Hot standby errors fixed.
8.1	Changes to RMU /REPLICATE AFTER START /BUFFERS qualifier.
8.2	Standby database missing updates if master not manually opened.
8.3	Starting LRS on master database caused shutdown.
9	Oracle Trace errors fixed.
9.1	Oracle Trace did not collect for Oracle Rdb Release 7.1.1

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