This
manual describes all features of the Oracle database server, 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 manual
applies to the Oracle database server running on all operating systems. This
preface contains these topics: This note covers the following topics:
introduction to the oracle database, data blocks extents and segments,
tablespaces datafiles and control files, transaction management, schema objects,
dependencies among schema objects, the data dictionary, memory architecture,
process architecture, application architecture, oracle utilities, database and
instance startup and shutdown, data concurrency and consistency, manageability,
backup and recovery, business intelligence, high availability, partitioned
tables and indexes, content management, database security, data integrity,
triggers, information integration, sql plsql and java, overview of application
development languages, native datatypes, object datatypes and object views