Oracle9i

Database Reference

Release 2 (9.2)

March 2002

Part No. A96536-01

Oracle9i Database Reference, Release 2 (9.2)

Part No. A96536-01

Primary Author: Tony Morales

Contributing Author: Diana Lorentz

Contributors: Nipun Agarwal, Angela Amor, Rick Anderson, Lance Ashdown, Mark Bauer, Ruth Baylis, Neerja Bhatt, Tudor Bosman, George Candea, Wilson Chan, Sumanta Chatterjee, Eugene Chong, Michele Cyran, Mary Ann Davidson, Connie Dialeris Green, Harvey Eneman, Bruce Ernst, Ira Greenberg, Steve Harris, Thuvan Hoang, Lilian Hobbs, Namit Jain, Hakkan Jakobsson, Bob Jenkins, Mark Johnson, Jonathan Klein, Sushil Kumar, Tirthankar Lahiri, Bill Lee, Nina Lewis, Yunrui Li, Juan Loaiza, Neil MacNaughton, Kant Patel, Shankar Raman, Ari Mozes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Ravi Murthy, Karuna Muthiah, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Ronald Obermarck, Cetin Ozbutun, Christopher Racicot, Mark Ramacher, Suvendu Ray, Ann Rhee, Vivian Schupmann, Harlan Sexton, Helen Slattery, Ekrem Soylemez, Debbie Steiner, Seema Sundara, Juan Tellez, Alex Tsukerman, Kothanda Umamageswaran, Randy Urbano, Steve Vivian, Eric Voss, Tak Wang, Steve Wertheimer, Andy Witkowski, Daniel Wong, Graham Wood, Brian Wright, Aravind Yalamanchi, Qin Yu, Mohamed Ziauddin

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