Database Systems

FACULTY OF CS & IT
UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT
Contents
 Oracle introduction
 Oracle History
 Oracle Usage
 Oracle Versions
 Oracle family
 Oracle features
 RDBMS

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 Project
 All students are required to complete a
course project
 The details will be announced.
 You need to start forming project teams
◦ Talk to your classmates

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Topic #1:
A Brief Introduction to Oracle:

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Oracle
 One of the largest vendors in the
enterprise IT market, made a multiuser
relational database management system
(RDBMS) that's formally called Oracle
Database.

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Oracle History
 Larry Ellison and his two friends and former co-
workers, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started a
Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in
1977.
 SDL developed the original version of the
Oracle software.

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Oracle Usage
 An Oracle database is a collection of data
treated as a unit.
 The purpose of a database is to store and
retrieve related information.
 A database server is the key to solving the
problems of information management.

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Oracle Version
 Oracle release the first version ‘Oracle v2’ in
1979.
 In 1998 Oracle introduce the ‘I’ series, like
Oracle8i Database.
 In 2003 Oracle introduce the ‘g’ series, like
Oracle Database 10g.
 In 2013 Oracle introduce the ‘c’ series, like
Oracle Database 12c.

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Meaning of i, g & c in Oracle
Database
 The ‘I’ in oracle 8i and 9i stands for INTERNET
 The g in 10g and 11g stands for GRID, because
from 10g onwards oracle supports grid
architecture.
 The c in 12c stands for ClOUD, this is the first
database designed for the cloud.

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Oracle Family
 Oracle Personal Edition- for single users. Used
to develop systems
 Oracle Standard Edition- (Entry level
Workgroup server)
 Oracle Enterprise edition- (Extended
functionality )

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Features
 SQL based RDBMS
 Parallel SQL execution
 Online backup and recovery
 Automated Database Management
 Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
 Grid architecture
 Active Data Guard
 Database Cloud Service

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Now:
A Brief Introduction to RDBMS:

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Database Management System
 Specialized software
 Buy, install, set up for particular application
 Available for PC’s, workstations, mainframes,
supercomputers
 Is expected to:
◦ Allow users to create new databases (schema)
◦ Give users the ability to query/modify the data
◦ Support the storage of very large amounts of data
◦ Control access to data from many users at once

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 Database Management System
(cont’d)
 Major vendors/products:
◦ Oracle
◦ IBM (DB2)
◦ Microsoft (SQL Server, Access)
 Powerful tool for providing efficient, convenient,
and safe multi-user storage of and access to
massive amounts of persistent data

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 Example: Banking System
 Data = information on accounts,
customers, balances, current interest
rates, transaction histories, etc

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