... a programmer is still needed to design the report definition.
Oracle Discoverer empowers end users to develop reports themselves. Once Oracle
Discoverer, which runs on an Oracle Application ... work.
The Oracle Applications
The number of Oracle applications products has increased substantially in recent
years due to a large number of corporate acquisitions, but two applications remain ...
predominant. The Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications
based around an accounting engine and Oracle Collaboration Suite is a set of office
automation tools.
The Oracle E-Business...
... system. Only if it proves
inappropriate should one resort to nonrelational structures. Applications where the
relational model has proven highly effective include virtually all Online Transaction ... ported to non-IBM
platforms for many years. Microsoft’s SQL Server is another relational database that
has been limited by the platforms on which it runs. Oracle databases, by contrast,
have ... this
that gave Oracle the edge in the RDBMS market place.
A note on terminology: confusion can arise when discussing relational databases
with people used to working with Microsoft products. SQL...
...
one database, which may be a RAC clustered database. It consists of a Java process
running on the database server machine. Administrators connect to Database
Control from a browser, and Database ...
■
The Oracle Application Server
■
The Oracle Enterprise Manager
■
Various application development tools and languages
These products each have a position in the Oracle product set. The database ... Application Server’s contribution to the Grid.
It is important to note that Oracle s commitment to international standards is
very strong. Applications running in the Oracle Application Server environment...
... Installing OracleDatabase 11g
■
New features in database creation
■
Database upgrade new features
■
Real Application Testing
Please refer to the OracleDatabase11g documentation for complete ... Oracle Corporation. For more information about the Oracle certification
exams, requirements for certification, or recertification, please visit Oracle s certification web site
(http://www .oracle. com/education/certification).
This ... to the latest OracleDatabase 11g
OCP certification from the Oracle1 0g OCP certification. In order to take this exam,
Oracle Corporation must have already certified you as an Oracle1 0g OCP.
If...
... he was named Consultant of the Year by Oracle
Magazine in 2002. His best-selling books include OracleDatabase11g DBA
Handbook, Oracle Advanced Tuning and Administration, and Oracle SQL & ... the Oracle community and is the current web seminar
chair for the community-run Oracle Real Application Clusters Special Interest
Group (www.ORACLERACSIG.org).
Chapter 1: OracleDatabase11g ... Architectures and Options
Oracle provides a full array of tools for developing applications based onOracleDatabase 11g.
Many of the features introduced with OracleDatabase11g will be available...
... can use the Oracle 11.1
client to access an Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, OracleDatabase 10g, and OracleDatabase
11g (11.1) database.
Let’s first look at the manual upgrade process using Oracle- supplied ...
Oracle Database 11g. I summarize the main changes to the DBCA in the following
sections.
New Database Configuration Options
Oracle Database11g contains quite a few changes in configuring databases ... Edition installation
option.
■
Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) This is an optional component.
The OCM gathers software configuration information and uploads it to the
Oracle configuration...
... environment
and Oracle version. At the conclusion of the Oracle software installation, the Database Configuration
Assistant (DBCA) will launch and will begin the process of creating a new database ... whereas the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant verifies
your networking configuration. Connections to your database will use Oracle Net. You can
choose not to run the configuration assistants ... functionality, such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle OLAP,
Oracle Label Security, and Oracle Data Mining.
Standard Edition This edition provides a good subset of the features of the Enterprise
Edition, generally...
... in Oracle11g represents
unknown or missing data). Two vertical bars (
||
) are used as the concatenation operator.
Here are two examples:
Oracle1 1g’ || Database
results in
Oracle1 1gDatabase’
.
Oracle1 1g ... instructions in the Oracle document OracleDatabase Sample
Schemas 11g Release 1” at
http:/ /download .oracle. com/docs/cd/
B28359_01/server.111/b28328/toc.htm
.
Chapter 2 of the OracleDatabase ... in
Oracle1 1gDatabase’
.
Oracle1 1g ‘ || Database
results in
Oracle1 1g Database
.
Operator Precedence
If multiple operators are used in the same expression, Oracle evaluates them in the...
...
C: \ORACLE\ ORADATA\W11GR1\USERS01.DBF USERS01.DBF
C: \ORACLE\ ORADATA\W11GR1\UNDOTBS01.DBF UNDOTBS01.DBF
C: \ORACLE\ ORADATA\W11GR1\SYSAUX01.DBF SYSAUX01.DBF
C: \ORACLE\ ORADATA\W11GR1\SYSTEM01.DBF SYSTEM01.DBF
C: \ORACLE\ ORADATA\W11GR1\EXAMPLE01.DBF ... condition), and find out whether you see any difference in the result.
Using Single-Row Character Functions
Single-row character functions operate on character data. Most have one or more character ... Examples
Pattern Matches Does Not Match
%SONI_1 SONIC1
,
ULTRASONI21 SONICS1
,
SONI315
_IME TIME
,
LIME IME
,
CRIME
\%SONI_1 ESCAPE ‘\’ %SONIC1
,
%SONI91 SONIC1
,
ULTRASONIC1
%ME\_ _ _LE ESCAPE ‘\’...
... database
trigger executes in its own transaction space. See the
Database Interaction” section for more information on
this pragma.
Database Interaction
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lock_mode is one of the following: ROW SHARE, ... transaction. Those changes
committed in an autonomous transaction are visible to other
transactions as well. The database suspends the main trans-
action while the autonomous transaction executes:
PROCEDURE ... transaction begins here.
DELETE
at_proc; Call the autonomous transaction.
SELECT
INSERT
COMMIT; Main transaction ends here.
END;
PROCEDURE at_proc IS
PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;
BEGIN...
... life.
The OracleDatabase Family
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The OracleDatabase Family
Oracle Database11g is the most recent version of the Oracle Relational Database
Management System (RDBMS) family of products that ... versions,
Oracle issues point releases that also add features but are more typically focused on
improvements to earlier capabilities.
The terms Oracle, ” Oracle8 ,” Oracle8 i,” Oracle9 i,” Oracle ... also enables Oracle to
focus on implementing new features only once across its product set.
Oracle Essentials
Oracle Database 11g
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the conversion of some dates, such as 12 April 2000 (04/12/00 or 12/04/00). To avoid
problems with implicit conversions, Oracle provides explicit date/character-conversion
functions:
TO_DATE
, ... representations.
You can use the conversion functions to convert a numeric value to a character or a
character value to a numeric or datetime value. Character datatypes in Oracle11g are
CHAR, ... LOS_ANG LONDON SINGAPO
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Using Single-Row Conversion Functions
Single-row conversion functions operate on multiple datatypes. The
TO_CHAR
and
TO_NUMBER
functions have...
... zone. CURRENT_DATE and SYSDATE return nei-
ther fractional seconds nor a time zone; they both return the DATE datatype.
19. D. CONVERT is used to change from one character set to another. EXTRACT ... expression is a character datatype, it returns a VARCHAR2. For character
strings, the maximum is the one that sorts highest based on the database character set.
Although the inclusion of either ... expression is a character datatype, it returns a VARCHAR2. For character
strings, the minimum is the one that sorts lowest based on the database character set.
Although the inclusion of either...