Friday, April 6, 2012

INTRODUCTION

A database is a collection of data that is used to store and retrieve related information. The Oracle database is the fourth generation relational database management system, which manages a large amount of data and provides multi-user environment. Thus, multiple users can concurrently access the same data in a database.


Oracle provides several useful features for database developers such as integrity constraints, transaction controls, stored procedures and packages, database triggers, cost-based optimizer, shared SQL, locking, and sequences. Basically, oracle database is divided into two structures: logical and physical. Both the structures are managed separately in Oracle.


The Oracle database is a relational database and is therefore called Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Any RDBMS must possess certain characteristics, which are as follows:
  • Constraints
  • Objects
  • Operations
  • Data Integrity
  • Database Normalization




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