Oracle8 Getting to Know Oracle8 and the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition
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Preface

How Getting to Know Oracle8 and the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition Is Organized

1 Overview

Introducing Oracle8 and the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition
Oracle8
Oracle8 Enterprise Edition

2 New Features and Options

Partitioned Tables and Indexes
What is Partitioning?
Greater Control Over Data
Easy-To-Use Administration
Improved Data Warehouse Performance
Enhanced Star-Query Processing
New Parallel Operations
Increased Database Size
Improvements for OLTP Applications
Extended Backup/Recovery Subsystem
Very Large User Populations
Advanced Queuing
Parallel Server Improvements
Transparent Application Failover
Improved TP Monitor Support
Better Security Administration
Replication
Object-Relational Technology
Object Types and Views
Calling External Procedures from within the Database
Client-Side Support for Objects
Evolution of Relational Environments
Development Tools for Object Modeling
Multimedia Data
Java
Extensibility
Migration and Interoperability
Other Enhancements
Index-Organized Tables
Reverse Key Indexes
Improved Constraint Processing
Two Character Sets in One Database
Miscellaneous Improvements

3 Differences between Oracle8 and the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition

Feature Factoring
The V$OPTION Table
Factoring-Related Error Message

4 How to Use Oracle8 Documentation

Documentation Structure
Online Documentation
Printed Documentation

5 Deprecated and Desupported Features

Deprecated and Desupported Features
Strings of Zero Length are not equivalent to a NULL
The SELECT Privilege
Date Format Strings are Stricter
SERIALIZABLE=TRUE is no longer supported
Non-Deferred Linking
Single-Task Linking
CONNECT INTERNAL
Partition Views
V6 Compatibility Behavior


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