This book provides an architectural and conceptual overview of the Oracle database server, which is an object-relational database management system. It describes how the Oracle database server functions, and it lays a conceptual foundation for much of the practical information contained in other manuals. Information in this book applies to the Oracle database server running on all operating systems.
- Introduction to Oracle Database
- Tables and Table Clusters
Indexes and Index-Organized Tables
Partitions, Views, and Other Schema Objects
- Data Integrity
Data Dictionary and Dynamic Performance Views
SQL
- Server-Side Programming: PL/SQL and Java
- Data Concurrency and Consistency
- Transactions
- Physical Storage Structures
- Logical Storage Structures
- Oracle Database Instance
- Memory Architecture
- Process Architecture
- Application and Networking Architecture
- Introduction to the Multitenant Architecture
- Overview of the Multitenant Architecture
- Topics for Database Administrators and Developers
- Concepts for Database Administrators
- Concepts for Database Developers