Administration

• External Backups on RS Secondary Servers
• Dynamically Start, Stop, or Restart Listen Threads
• SQL Administration API Portal: Arguments by Functional Categories
• Connection Manager Proxy Support
• View Event Alarms in the Scheduler
• Improved Transaction Information
• Enhancements to the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
• Enhancements to the Schema Manager plug-in for the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS

Application Development

• Enhancements to Merging Information into a Target Table with the MERGE Statement
• An ALTER FRAGMENT Operation Can Now Force Out Transactions to Get Exclusive Access to Tables
• RETAINUPDATELOCKS Environment Option
• New Column Size Field Format for CDC Records

Enterprise Replication

• Enhancements to the Enterprise Replication plug-in for the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
• Enable or Disable Enterprise Replication Event Alarms

High-availability

• XA Transaction Support for Updatable Secondary Servers in a High-availability Cluster

Installation

• Deploying Instances with the Deployment Utility
• Installing IDS by Using an RPM package (Linux)

Migration

• Migrating or Upgrading High-availability Clusters
• Upgrading to a New Server or Fix pack
• Quickly Reverting to Your Source Server After a Failed Upgrade

Performance

• Light Scans on Tables
• Process Multiple Basic Text Search Queries Simultaneously

Warehousing

• Load and Unload Data with External Tables

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위와 같은 강화된 기능중에서
         - Listen Threads의 Dynamic하게 start/stop/restart 할수 있는 기능
         - Merge SQL구문에 대한 기능강화
         - Load and Unload Data with External Tables에 대한 기능

이 눈에 띄는군요..물론 나머진 Test 해봐야 하겠지만...목차만 보면 위의 3가지가 가장 눈에띄는 기능강화 내용인거 같네요..
궁금하신분은 직접 테스트하시는것두 좋을듯...^^