Oracle Quick Guides: Part 1 - Oracle Basics: Database and Tools
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This is Part 1 of a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers. It introduces completely new entrants to the Oracle environment: Relational principles, history, background of Oracle, the products, database architecture, installation, Oracle and 3rd party database and design tools and includes a glossary of basic Oracle terms and explanations of their meaning.
These guides are designed to rapidly deliver key information about Oracle to the following audience groups:
- Project Managers, Team Leaders, Testers who are new to Oracle and need rapid access to strategic information about the Oracle development environment.
- Business Analysts, Designers, Developers who are new to Oracle and need to make first steps in gaining a detailed understanding of the design and development issues involved in Oracle.
Part 1 assumes that the reader has no knowledge of Oracle. The contents of Part 1 include the following:
1. Oracle - A Brief History.
2. Relational databases: An introduction.
3. How relational databases impact software development.
4. Basic descriptions of Oracle products.
5. The Oracle database architecture.
6. Tools: Oracle's own design / development tools.
7. Implementing Oracle DB and Oracle tools - Overview.
8. Various 3rd Party Tools: Quick review.
9. Glossary
Malcolm Coxall
Malcolm Coxall is a management consultant, systems analyst, organic farmer and author, with more than 30 years experience working for many of the world's largest corporate and institutional organisations, starting in the field of dispute arbitration for the ILO. These experiences have provided him a ringside view of the management methodologies used by medium and large businesses in areas as diverse as banking, oil, defence, telecoms, insurance, manufacturing, mining, food, agriculture, aerospace, textiles, and heavy engineering. Malcolm has published articles on political science, sociology, human design, sustainable agriculture, organic food production, technology in organic farming, biodiversity, forest management, environmental protection and environmental economics. He is active in European environmental politics and was a successful private complainant in the European Court of Justice in several cases of national breaches of European environmental law. He now lives in Southern Spain from where he continues his IT and system consultancy work, writing and managing the family's organic olive farm.
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Oracle Quick Guides - Malcolm Coxall
Oracle Quick Guides - Part 1 Oracle Basics Database & Tools
Malcolm Coxall
Edited by Guy Caswell
Published by M.Coxall - Cornelio Books
Copyright 2013 Malcolm Coxall
First Published in Spain , United Kingdom 2013
ISBN: 978-84-940853-4-5
"Space does not exist unless there are objects in it
Nor does time exist without events."
Contents
Preface and Audience
1. Oracle - A Brief History.
2. Relational databases: An introduction.
3. How relational databases impact software development.
4. Basic descriptions of Oracle products.
5. The Oracle database architecture .
6. Tools: Oracle's own design / development tools.
7. Implementing Oracle DB and Oracle tools - Overview.
8. Various 3rd Party Tools: Quick review.
9. Glossary of Terms
10. Other useful sources of information.
About the Author
Preface and Audience
Oracle Quick Guides: Welcome to Oracle Quick Guides, a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers.
Guide Audience: These guides are designed to rapidly deliver key information about Oracle to the following audience groups :
- Project Managers, Team Leaders and Testers who are new to Oracle and need rapid access to strategic information about the Oracle development environment .
- Business Analysts, Designers and Software D evelopers who are new to Oracle and need to make a first step in gaining a detailed understanding of the d esign and development issues involved in Oracle .
Guide Content s : These guides have been divided by subject matter . They become increasingly complex and more specific the later the volume . Thus, volume 1 is quite general but later volumes are very technical and specific.
Our Objective: There are plenty of Oracle textbooks on the market. Most of them are huge and only part l y relevant to a particular group of readers . Therefore, w e decided to divide the subject into smaller, more targeted volumes in order that you only get the information YOU need .
For example, a Project M anager doesn't need to know some of the more esoteric programming tips but will need to know some of the strategic issues affecting design an d testing. In a similar way, a P rogrammer is much more interested in the syntactic details than in the strategic issues affecting the choice of an Oracle upgrade path.
And so we target these guides at particular groups, with specific interests and we try to avoid overloading the reader with too much detail or extraneous material.
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1. Oracle - A Brief History
Here are some nuggets from Oracle's history:
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood , California , United States .
Founder: Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history. On August 22, 2008, the Associa ted Press ranked Ellison as the highest pai d chief executive in the world.
Products: Oracle specialis es in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products - particularly its own brands of database management systems and tools . Oracle also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, such as E nterprise Resource P lanning software (ERP), C ustomer R elation ship M anagement software (CRM) and S upply Chain M anagement (SCM) software , to name just a small part of the Oracle applications portfolio.
Global Size: At the time of writing (2013) Oracle is the third-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
Timeline of Oracle's History
1970 : Paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.
This paper provides inspiration to Larry Ellison in his interest in large database design.
1977 : Larry Ellison co-founds Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).
1978: Oracle version 1, written in assembly language, runs in 128K of memory.
1979 : SDL ch anges its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI) .
1979: Oracle version 2 is released - the first commercial SQL RDBMS
1982: RSI renames itself Oracle Systems Corporation to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database.
1983: Oracle Database is rewritten in C for portability. Oracle is offered as VAX-mode database
1983: Oracle version 3 is released.
1984: Oracle version 4 is release d as first database to offer read consistency.
1984: Oracle database software is ported to the PC platform.
1986: Oracle for MSDOS version 5 is released. Oracle version 5 is one of the first RDBMS to operate in client-server mode.
1986: Oracle version 5.1 is released with support for distributed queries. Investigations into clustering begin. Oracle goes public.
1987: Oracle founds its Applications division, building business-management software closely integrated with its dat abase software, in UNIX environment.
1988: Oracle version 6 is released. This has support for row-level locking and hot backups. The developers embed the PL/SQL procedural language into the database. Users could submit PL/SQL blocks for immediate execution in the server from an environment such as SQL*Plus, or via SQL statements embedded in a host program. Oracle included separate PL/SQL engines in various client tools (such as SQL*Forms and Reports).
1992: Oracle 7 is released with performance enhancements, administrative utilities, application-development tools, security features, the ability to persist PL/SQL program units in the database as stored procedures and triggers, and support for declarative referential integrity.
1993: Oracle releases its Cooperative Development Environment
(CDE), which bundles Oracle Forms, Reports, Graphics, and Book.
1995: Oracle Corporation announces new data-warehousing facilities, including parallel queries and offers the first 64-bit RDBMS.
1996: Oracle releases Web Browser of the Oracle Power Browser and moves towards an open standards-based, web-enabled architecture.
1997: Oracle releases the first version of Discoverer.
1997: Oracle 8 is released with SQL object technology, Internet technology and support for terabytes of data.
1997: Oracle Corporation announces a commitment to the Java platform, and introduces Oracle's Java inte grated development environment JDeveloper.
1998: Oracle releases Oracle Applications 10.7 Network Computing Architecture (NCA). All the applications in the business software now run across the web in a standard web browser.
1998: Oracle Corporation releases Oracle Applications 11.
1998: Oracle 8 i is released (the ' i ' stands for Internet).
1998: Oracle 8