Changes in This Release for Oracle OLAP DML Reference

This preface describes changes in Oracle OLAP DML Reference in this release. For information on changes in earlier releases, see Appendix D.

Changes in Oracle OLAP in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)

The following are changes in Oracle OLAP DML Reference for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1).

New Features

The following features are new in this release:

Increased maximum line length

The maximum line length of text has changed from 4,000 to 32,767.

See the descriptions of TEXT and NTEXT in Table 2-3, "OLAP DML Text Data Types", and the EXTCOLS, INSCOLS, JOINBYTES, JOINCOLS, REMCOLS, and REPLCOLS functions.

Other Changes

The following are additional changes in the release:

Performance enhancement

A new highly compact storage format for valuesets.

See the NOORDER keyword of DEFINE VALUESET.
Changes in statements

The following statements have been changed in the OLAP DML in Oracle Database 12c:

DEFINE VALUESET

EXTCOLS

INSCOLS

JOINBYTES

JOINCOLS

REMCOLS

REPLCOLS