Oracle 8i

Concepts

Release 2 (8.1.6)

December 1999

Part No. A76965-01

Concepts, Release 2 (8.1.6)

Part No. A76965-01

Primary Authors: Lefty Leverenz, Diana Rehfield, Cathy Baird

Contributing Authors: Lance Ashdown, Steve Bobrowski, Cynthia Chin-Lee, Cindy Closkey, Bill Creekbaum, Jason Durbin, John Frazzini, Richard Mateosian, Denis Raphaely, John Russell, Danny Sokolsky, Randy Urbano

Contributors: Richard Allen, David Anderson, Andre Bakker, Mark Bauer, Ruth Baylis, Bill Bridge, Atif Chaudry, Jeff Cohen, Michele Cyran, Benoit Dageville, Mary Ann Davidson, Sandy Dreskin, Ahmed Ezzat, Jim Finnerty, Diana Lorentz, Anurag Gupta, Gary Hallmark, Michael Hartstein, Terry Hayes, Alex Ho, Chin Hong, Ken Jacobs, Sandeep Jain, Amit Jasuja, Hakan Jakobsson, Bob Jenkins, Ashok Joshi, Mohan Kamath, Jonathan Klein, R. Kleinro, Robert Kooi, Vishu Krishnamurthy, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Andre Kruglikov, Tirthankar Lahiri, Juan Loaiza, Brom Mahbod, William Maimone, Andrew Mendelsohn, Reza Monajjemi, Mark Moore, Rita Moran, Bhagat Nainani, Denise Oertel, Bruce Olsen, Robert Pang, Mark Porter, Maria Pratt, Tuomas Pystynen, Ann Rhee, Patrick Ritto, Hasan Rizvi, Sriram Samu, Hari Sankar, Gordon Smith, Mark Smith, Leng Leng Tan, Lynne Thieme, Alvin To, Alex Tsukerman, William Waddington, Joyo Wijaya, Linda Willis, Andrew Witkowski, Mohamed Zait

Graphic Designer: Valarie Moore

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