The objective of this book is to teach you by example how to use Oracle9i to create a complete application, beginning to end.
You will learn:
How to create GUI Forms-based programs
How to create GUI and Character-mode reports
How to use SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL*Plus
What is necessary to administrate Oracle9i
How to monitor and tune applications
How to build Oracle PL/SQL applications
How to build JAVA applications
How to build XML applications
How to create Web-based applications using Oracle developer 6i and Oracle Portal v3.0
In this chapter, you learned the different types of databases present in today's technology environment as well as what a relational database is and where it came from. You also learned some of the new key features of the new Oracle9i database.
The next chapter teaches you the basics of SQL, the basic language that all relational databases share. SQL is used extensively throughout the Oracle database and development tools.
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