Oracle Essentials [Electronic resources] : Oracle Database 10g, 3rd Edition نسخه متنی

About the Third Edition (Oracle Database 10g)

We were pleased that the first two editions of this book, covering
the Oracle database up to the Oracle9i version,
were well received and that O'Reilly &
Associates agreed to publish this third edition. In this update to
the book, we have added information about the latest release of
Oracle, Oracle Database 10g.

For the most part our task was fairly clear-cut, because the
10g release is primarily incrementalthe
new features in the release extend existing features of the database.
We've added the information about these extensions
to each of the chapters, wherever this information was most relevant
and appropriate.

Note that this third edition cannot possibly cover everything that is
new in Oracle Database 10g. In general, we
followed the same guidelines for this edition that we did for the
first two editions. If a new feature did not seem to be broadly
important, we did not necessarily delve into it; similarly, in the
first two editions we did not try to produce a laundry list of every
characteristic of the Oracle database. In addition, if a feature fell
into an area outside the scope of the earlier editions, we did not
attempt to cover it in this edition. An example is the set of
detailed changes to the SQL language used in Oracle
Database 10g; we expect that those features will
be amply covered in Oracle documentation and in SQL-specific books.

Appendix A includes a chapter-by-chapter summary of the new features
of Oracle Database 10g that are described in
this book.