New Oracle 11g Database Features

Lewis Cunningham has described the new features in Oracle 11g (the next database release), as announced this week at Open World, in OOW: Enhancements in Oracle 11g PL/SQL

There are a few that sound fantastic:

• DML triggers are up to 25% faster.
• Specify Trigger firing order.
• Read only tables
• SQL and PL/SQL result caching
• Fine Grained Depenancy Tracking - when you add a column to a table, or a cursor to a package spec, you don't invalidate objects that are dependant on them