Oracle9i

SQL Reference

Release 1 (9.0.1)

June 2001

Part No. A90125-01

Oracle9i SQL Reference, Release 1 (9.0.1)

Part No. A90125-01

Primary Author: Diana Lorentz

Contributors: Nipun Agarwal, David Alpern, Patrick Amor, Rick Anderson, Geeta Arora, Nimar Arora, Lance Ashdown, Cathy Baird, Sandeepan Banerjee, Cailein Barclay, Subrhansu Basu, Mark Bauer, Ruth Baylis, Harmeek Bedi, Barbara Benton, Paula Bingham, Steve Bobrowski, Tolga Bozkaya, Allen Brumm, Bridget Burke, Ted Burroughs, Greg Casbolt, Sivasankaran Chandrasekar, Thomas Chang, Eugene Chong, Greg Cook, Michele Cyran, Ravindra Dani, Dinesh Das, Mary Ann Davidson , Norbert Debes, Connie Dialeris, Alan Downing, Amit Ganesh, Bill Gietz, Govind Govindarajan, Ray Guzman, John Haydu, Shelley Higgins, Thuvan Hoang, Wei Hu, Jiansheng Huang, Alexander Hunold, Bob Jenkins, Mark Johnson, Nitin Karkhanis, Vishy Karra, Jonathan Klein, Susan Kotsovolos, Vishu Krishnamurthy, Ramkumar Krishnan, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Paul Lane, Simon Law, Shilpa Lawande, Seong Yong Albert Lee, Bill Lee, Yunrui Li, Li-Sen Liu, Shih-Hao Liu, Jing Liu, Phil Locke, Lenore Luscher, Kevin MacDowell, Steve McGee, Colin McGregor, Jack Melnick, Ben Meng, Magdi Morsi, Ari Mozes, Sreedhar Mukkamalla, Subramanian Muralidhar, Ravi Murthy, Sujatha Muthulingam, Gary Ngai, Ron Obermarck, Jeffrey Olkin, Kevin Osinski, Ananth Raghavan, Jack Raitto, Den Raphaely, Siva Ravada, John Russell, Vivian Schupmann, Ajay Sethi, Lei Sheng, Wayne Smith, Ekrem Soylemez, Jagannathan Srinivasan, Jim Stenoish, Mike Stewart, Seema Sundara, Ashish Thusoo, Rosanne Park Toohey, Anh-Tuan Tran, Kothanda Umamageswaran, Randy Urbano, Sandy Venning, Andre Vergison, Steve Vivian, Eric Voss, Rick Wessman, Daniel Wong, Aravind Yalamanchi, Adiel Yoaz, Qin Yu, Mohamed Zait, Fred Zemke, Mohamed Ziauddin, and many many others.

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