Re: ORACLE

From: Ed Prochak <prochak_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:57:43 GMT
Message-ID: <7v4q2l$ce5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

ORACLE, in the context of this discussion group, is a Relational Database Management System (R DBMS).

A relational database stores and organizes data in Tables. The columns ar the attributes of the data. Tables of data are related by common attributes. For example a table of voters can be related to a table of car owners by the name attributes in both tables.

One of the advantages of a relational model database is that the connections among data are logical connections. This contrasts with the prior dominant models, the Hierarchical and Network models. Those models maintained connections, (file pointers and other links) among the data items. Maintaining the connections require higher overhead and they must be repaired on occasion (if corrupted).

There is a standard language used for accessing and manipulating the data in the database called SQL, or Structured Query Language.

ORACLE supports other means of accessing the data also, function libraries, network connections, loading or exporting text data.

The DBMS handles all of the mundane task of the database, such as allocating storage space for each table, maintaining the integrity and security of the data, and controlling access.

Come back with some more specific questions and we can answer more.

In article <s1a4hv9sgbb25_at_corp.supernews.com>, Madhu Mohan <nadikotam_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1. What is ORACLE
> 2. What are the Advantages of using ORACLE
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