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This first chapter lays the groundwork for the rest of the book. Of all the chapters, it
covers the broadest range of topics. Most of these topics are discussed later in more
depth, but some of the basics??”for example, the brief history of Oracle and the contents
of the different ???flavors??? of the Oracle database products??”are unique to this
chapter.
Over the past 30 years, Oracle grew from being one of many vendors that developed
and sold a database product to being widely recognized as the database market
leader. Although early products were typical of a startup company, the Oracle database
quality and depth grew such that its technical capabilities are now often viewed
as the most advanced in the industry. With each database release, Oracle has
improved the scalability, functionality, and manageability of the database.
2 | Chapter 1: Introducing Oracle
This book is now in its fourth edition. This edition, like the second and third editions,
required many changes since the database has changed a great deal over this
time.


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