Oracle8 Getting to Know Oracle8 and the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition
Release 8.0
A58228-01

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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 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

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

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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