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Oracle 11g New Features: The highly anticipated Oracle Database 11g is set for release within the next few months. Please click here to read some of the new features.

Oracle 10g ASM Features: With ASM, Oracle ventures into the goal of bringing as much of the Operating Systems housekeeping into the database as possible. Oracle 10g ASM features the following:

• Automatic load balancing
• Software Raid 1 with double or triple mirroring
• Elimination of File Management
• Elimination of Fragmentation

ASM's main purpose seems to be managing disk resources for RAC in a grid environment, but it will work on single instance installations as well. I have demonstrated ASM configurations on Windows environment in a PowerPoint Presentation. Click here to read or download PowerPoint Presentation.