Understanding SQL*Net

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SQL*Net's New Features

This release of SQL*Net provides a number of new features and enhancements over previous releases. These enhancements include features that

Performance Improvements

With SQL*Net release 2.3 you can choose to have multiple listeners for a single database and multiple listeners listening for more than one equivalent database. Listener load balancing enables you to distribute connection requests for a database among a number of listeners. With connections distributed among a number of listeners, no single listener is likely to be overburdened, and connection time will be faster. You can also have a many-to-many relationship between listeners and equivalent database instances. For more information about listener load balancing, see Chapter 2.

Ease of Use Enhancements

A number of new features make setting up and maintaining a SQL*Net release 2.3 network easier.

Troubleshooting Features

New diagnostic tools have been added to this release of SQL*Net.

Open API

The SQL*Net OPEN API enables developers to create non-database applications that make use of an existing SQL*Net network. Refer to Appendix D for further information.


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