Oracle’s latest release says the company has extended support for its key database feature, Real Application Testing. The company says the enhancement should help companies switch to the latest version of its database, Oracle 11g, although, the feature is available in the earlier versions of Oracle database (10g and 9i Release 2) as well.

“The challenge every IT organization has — be it upgrading an operating system, a database, moving from single server to clustered or from non-partitioned to partitioned — is how do you rigorously test those changes you made,” said Willie Hardie, vice president of database product marketing for Oracle.

Oracle with its 230,000 database customers seems to be making an effort to please all of them by providing them with this feature. What’s more, Oracle is addressing some major issues by releasing 45 security fixes as part of its coming Critical Patch pdate.