Oracle Database Principles

This text describes the major components of Oracle such as SQL Plus, PL/SQL, indexing, security and integrity, and distributed databases. Underlying principles are also described in the book, and there are chapters on the objectives of database systems and on the relational model. Its broad coverage also includes database design techniques such as normalization and entity-relationship modelling. The Oracle application development tools: SQL Forms version 3 and SQL ReportWriter are covered, since these tools are still widely used in universities and in industry. In preparation for Oracle version 8, object-oriented concepts and the object-relational model are described.