Oracle9i

Database Concepts

Release 1 (9.0.1)

July 2001

Part No. A88856-02

Oracle9i Database Concepts, Release 1 (9.0.1)

Part No. A88856-02

Primary Author: Lenore McGee Luscher

Contributors: Patrick Amor, Lance Ashdown, Cathy Baird, Lee Barton, Mehul Bastawala, Mark Bauer, Ruth Baylis, Neerja Bhatt, Allen Brumm, Ted Burroughs, Chandra Chandrasekar, Gary Chen, Eugene Chong, Michele Cyran, Amit Ganesh, John Haydu, Brian Hirano, Thuvan Hoang, Bob Jenkins, Vishy Karra, Ravikanth Kasamsetty, Susan Kotsovolos, Julie Laffrenzen, Tirthankar Lahiri, Paul Lane, Simon Law, Yunrui Li, Diana Lorentz, Karen McKeen, Ben Meng, Magdi Morsi, Ari Mozes, Sreedhar Mukkamalla, Subramanian Muralidhar, Ravi Murthy, Sujatha Muthulingam, Bhagat Nainani, Gary Ngai, Jeffrey Olkin, Kant Patel, Ananth Raghavan, Jack Raitto, Beck Reitmeyer, Ann Rhee, John Russell, Vivian Schupmann, Ravi Shankar, Lei Sheng, Mark Smith, Richard Smith, Ekrem Soylemez, Marie St. Gelais, James Stenoish, Debbie Steiner, Sankar Subramanian, Seema Sundara, Bob Thome, Ashish Thusoo, Anh-Tuan Tran, Stephen J. Vivian, Daniel Wong, Adiel Yoaz, Qin Yu

Graphic Designer: Valarie Moore

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