... needed to design the report definition.
Oracle Discoverer empowers end users to develop reports themselves. Once Oracle
Discoverer, which runs on an Oracle Application Server middle tier, has ...
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 ... look like this:
BOOKS
ISBN Title Publisher
12345 Oracle11g SQL Fundamentals
1 Exam Guide
McGraw-Hill, Spear Street,
San Francisco, CA
67890 Oracle11g New Features
Exam Guide
McGraw-Hill, Spear...
... table will then look like this:
BOOKS
ISBN TITLE PUBLISHER
12345 Oracle11g OCP SQL Fundamentals 1 Exam Guide McGraw-Hill
67890 Oracle11g New Features Exam Guide McGraw-Hill
PUBLISHERS
PUBLISHER ... BOOKS table:
ISBN TITLE PUBLISHER
12345 Oracle11g OCP SQL Fundamentals
1 Exam Guide
McGraw-Hill, Spear Street,
San Francisco, California
67890 Oracle11g New Features Exam Guide McGraw-Hill, ... Authors Publisher
12345 Oracle11g OCP SQL
Fundamentals 1 Exam Guide
John Watson,
Roopesh Ramklass
McGraw-Hill, Spear
Street, San Francisco,
CA 94105
67890 Oracle11g New Features
Exam Guide
Sam...
... attaining.
There are several Oracle certification tracks—this book is concerned with the
Oracle DatabaseAdministration certification track, specifically for release 11g of the
database. There are three ... Technologies
There is a family of products that makes up the Oracle server technologies:
■
The OracleDatabase
■
The Oracle Application Server
■
The Oracle Enterprise Manager
■
Various application development ... Chapter 1: Oracle Server Technologies and the Relational Paradigm
Oracle Enterprise Manager comes in three forms:
■
Database Control
■
Application Server Control
■
Grid Control
Oracle Enterprise...
... your
OCP certification from OracleDatabase 10g to OracleDatabase 11g. (The complete
name of the test required for upgrading your certification is OracleDatabase
11g: New Features for Administrators ... chapter:
■
Installing OracleDatabase 11g
■
New features in database creation
■
Database upgrade new features
■
Real Application Testing
Please refer to the OracleDatabase11g documentation for ...
ix
xvi
INTRODUCTION
O
racle Database11g offers several highly powerful enhancements to the management
of Oracle databases. Oracle databases are the leading commercial databases in the
world...
... 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 ... I
Critical Database Concepts
1 OracleDatabase11g Architecture Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Installing OracleDatabase11g and Creating a Database ... Architectures and Options
Oracle provides a full array of tools for developing applications based on OracleDatabase 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 ... the OracleDatabase11g Release 1 (11.1) version. You can directly
upgrade to OracleDatabase Release 1 if your current database is based on an Oracle
9.2.0.4 or newer release. For Oracledatabase ... database to the new release. As
far as the Oracle clients are concerned, you can upgrade an Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, or
Oracle Database 10g client to the Oracle 11.1 release. You can use the Oracle...
... completion of the Oracle
software installation.
Chapter 2: Installing OracleDatabase11g and Creating a Database
17
After the Oracle software has been successfully installed, the Database Configuration ... version of the Oracle
database. It includes features such as Flashback Database and allows you to add
additional pieces of licensed functionality, such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle OLAP,
Oracle Label ... performance.
Chapter 2: Installing OracleDatabase11g and Creating a Database
13
Familiarity with a couple of key Web sites is a must. Oracle Technology Network (OTN), at
http://otn .oracle. com, has a wealth...
... 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 Sample ... 11g, please refer to the Oracle Technology Network
at
www .oracle. com/technology/obe/11gr1_db/install/dbinst/
windbinst2.htm
.
To install the sample schemas in an existing OracleDatabase 11g, ...
... dba_data_files;
FILE_NAME NAME
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 ... Character Functions
Single-row character functions operate on character data. Most have one or more character
arguments, and most return character values. Character functions take the character ... begin with AC_. Since
_
is a
pattern-matching character, you must qualify it with an escape character. Oracle does not
have a default escape character.
SELECT job_id, job_title
FROM jobs
WHERE...
... block, object method, or 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 ... multiple languages, the database
allows two character sets—the database character set and a
Unicode character set, sometimes called the national charac-
ter set (NLS).
The two NLS datatypes, NCHAR ... physical, or non -Oracle row identifier. Valid sizes are up to
4000 bytes.
Family Description
Database Interaction
|
35
COMMIT
COMMIT [WORK] [comment_text];
COMMIT makes the database changes permanent...
... terms Oracle, ” Oracle8 ,” Oracle8 i,” Oracle9 i,” OracleDatabase 10g,” and
OracleDatabase11g might appear to be used somewhat interchangeably in this
book because OracleDatabase11g includes ... accomplish-
ment in his life.
The OracleDatabase Family
|
7
The OracleDatabase Family
Oracle Database11g is the most recent version of the Oracle Relational Database
Management System (RDBMS) ... utilizing Oracle s two-phase commit with non -Oracle
databases and procedural services that call third-generation language routines on
non -Oracle systems. Users interact with the Oracle database...
... value to a character or a
character value to a numeric or datetime value. Character datatypes in Oracle11g are
CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, and CLOB. Numeric datatypes in Oracle
95127c02.indd ... you to internationalize
your Oracledatabase system. NLS internationalizations include date representations, char-
acter sets, alphabets, and alphabetical ordering.
Oracle will implicitly or automatically ... will tell
Oracle what format the input given in the first argument should be. The third argument
may be to specify an NLS string. You can use NLS parameters to tell Oracle what character
set...
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Chapter
3
Using Group
Functions
ORACLE DATABASE 11g:
SQL FUNDAMENTALS I EXAM OBJECTIVES
COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
Reporting Aggregated ... number.
If the 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 ... number.
If the 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...
... execute a join of three or more tables, Oracle takes these steps:
1.
Oracle joins two of the tables based on the join conditions, comparing their columns.
2.
Oracle joins the result to another table, ... Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
Chapter
4
Using Joins and
Subqueries
ORACLE DATABASE 11g:
SQL FUNDAMENTALS I EXAM OBJECTIVES
COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER
Displaying data from multiple ...
can nest any number of such queries; Oracle does not have a limit. Using the inline view, you
can write queries to find top-n values. This is possible because Oracle allows an
ORDER BY
clause...