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Foil 15 What are the versions of the Oracle Parallel Server ?

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
First introduced with Oracle 6.2
version 6.2 = version 6.0 (sequential) + Parallel Cache Management
version 7.1 = version 6.2 + parallel query processing
latest version 7.2 = sequential Oracle + Parallel Server Option + Parallel Query Option
production release on nCUBE is in Jan. 1995
All parallel implementation is transparent to users
Key technology: Parallel Cache Management and Parallel Query Processing
Key components: a Distributed Lock Manager and a Parallel Query Optimizer

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