Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

1 Introduction to Oracle Database

Part I Oracle Relational Data Structures

2 Tables and Table Clusters

3 Indexes and Index-Organized Tables

4 Partitions, Views, and Other Schema Objects

5 Data Integrity

6 The Data Dictionary and Dynamic Performance Views

Part II Oracle Data Access

7 SQL

8 Server-Side Programming: PL/SQL and Java

Part III Oracle Transaction Management

9 Transactions

10 Data Concurrency and Consistency

Part IV Oracle Database Storage Structures

11 Physical Storage Structures

12 Logical Storage Structures

Part V Oracle Instance Architecture

13 The Oracle Database Instance

14 Memory Architecture

15 Process Architecture

16 Application and Networking Architecture

Part VI Oracle Database Administration and Development

17 Topics for Database Administrators and Developers

18 Concepts for Database Administrators

19 Concepts for Database Developers

Glossary

Index