Sean McCown has a point system for determining whether a database upgrade is worth the time and money required. If the new iteration fails to change his life in five ways, then it’s not justified. “I expect most Oracle Database shops will find at least five of these life changers in Oracle Database 11g,” McCown writes. But there’s one feature, Real Application Testing, that’s so compelling, it’s almost enough reason to upgrade on its own, McCown adds, because every IT shop needs a solid was of reproducing production workloads to certify code changes without affecting the production environment. “Real Application Testing does the trick.”Read the full review: Torture tested: Oracle 11g. Databases