Part I Conceptual and Usage Information

This document has three parts:

• Part I provides conceptual and usage information about Workspace Manager.

• Reference Information provides reference information about the Workspace Manager PL/SQL API (DBMS_WM package) and static data dictionary views.

• Supplementary Information provides supplementary information (appendixes and a glossary).

Part I is organized for efficient learning about Workspace Manager. It covers basic concepts and techniques first, and proceeds to more advanced material (such as Workspace Manager events and valid time support). Part I contains the following chapters:

• Introduction to Workspace Manager
  Oracle Workspace Manager, often referred to as Workspace Manager, provides an infrastructure that enables applications to create workspaces and group different versions of table row values in different workspaces.
• Workspace Manager Events
  Certain applications may be interested in knowing what Workspace Manager operations are being performed and may want to take some actions based on that. Several types of Workspace Manager operations can be captured as events.
• Workspace Manager Valid Time Support
  This chapter describes the support for valid time, also known as effective dating, with version-enabled tables.