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If a new feature does not seem to be broadly
important, we have not necessarily delved into it. As with earlier editions we have
not tried to produce a laundry list of every characteristic of the Oracle database. In
addition, if a feature falls into an area outside the scope of the earlier editions, we
have not attempted to cover it in this edition unless it has assumed new importance.
Structure of This Book
This book is divided into 15 chapters and 2 appendixes, as follows:
Chapter 1, Introducing Oracle, describes the range of Oracle products and features
and provides a brief history of Oracle and relational databases.
Chapter 2, Oracle Architecture, describes the core concepts and structures (e.g., files,
processes, and so on) that are the architectural basis of Oracle.
Chapter 3, Installing and Running Oracle, briefly describes how to install Oracle and
how to configure, start up, and shut down the database and Oracle Net.
Chapter 4, Oracle Data Structures, summarizes the various datatypes supported by
Oracle and introduces the Oracle objects (e.


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