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16 unusual facts about Oracle Database


Database trigger

In addition to triggers that fire when data is modified, Oracle 9i supports triggers that fire when schema level objects (that is, tables) are modified and when user logon or logoff events occur.

Desert Pines High School

Students enrolled in the academy learn about hardware (CyberCore, tech support, and computer forensics), software (programming, web development, and ORACLE), as well as networks (Cisco, Novell, etc.).

École des technologies numériques appliquées

Students of ETNA can prepare major certifications (Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle).

Joint Operational Support Airlift Center

Schedulers receive requests from travel validators via the JALIS database (Joint Air Logistics System), which is an Oracle-based system developed by the US Navy.

Landau Forte Academy, Amington

Other highlights include drama and recording studios, a whole-school IT network (the school houses a Cisco Systems Oracle Database academy), design and technology centre, a suite of three art studios, a 32-seat language laboratory (French and German were traditionally taught, Spanish has been added in recent years) and nine science laboratories.

Oracle C++ Call Interface

The Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), as defined by the database company Oracle Corporation, offers C++ programmers a comfortable interface to access Oracle databases.

Oracle Clusterware

Oracle Clusterware is the cross platform cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle Database.

Oracle Data Guard

The software which Oracle Corporation markets as Oracle Data Guard forms an extension to the Oracle RDBMS.

Oracle Database

In addition to storage, the database consists of online redo logs (or logs), which hold transactional history.

Oracle Discoverer

Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment.

PL/I

Application subsystems for database and transaction processing (CICS and IMS and Oracle on System 370) and application generators became the focus of mainframe users' application development.

Programming Language for Business

It has a database capability built-in with ISAM and Associative Hashed Indexes, as well as ODBC, SQL, Oracle, sequential, random access, and XML files.

System Global Area

From Oracle Database version 10g, Automatic Memory Management (AMM) allows simplified and dynamic configuration of the SGA.

Tablespace

Oracle stores data logically in tablespaces and physically in datafiles associated with the corresponding tablespace.

Trading room

Born during the same period, they share many technical features, such as a three-tier architecture, whose back-end runs on a Unix platform, a relational database on either Sybase or Oracle, and a graphical user interface written in English, since their clients are anywhere in the world.

Virtual column

Oracle has supported virtual columns since the first release of version 11g .


Advanced Query Tool

Data Base Management Systems of which AQT is aware of the catalog structure include IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix.

Brian Aker

He then moved to work on Slashdot, where his initial task was to rewrite the database back-end to use Oracle.

Flash Recovery Area

Flash Recovery Area (FRA) is a feature provided by Oracle Corporation within the Oracle Database from release Oracle 10g onwards.

Forte 4GL

Being an enterprise application development system, Forté 4GL supported close linkage to a number of different relational database systems, including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, and DB2.

Infodata

A full decade before Oracle, Access, Alpha Five, dBASE, DB2, and other DBMS programs were available, Infodata had a working database solution.

NetBackup

NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units, and supports, amongst many others, hot backups for major database products like Oracle, can natively backup and restore the virtual machines of major virtualization products like VMware Infrastructure, can use Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), and has tape vaulting.

NetVault Backup

An enterprise solution, it supports many server, application platforms and protocols such as UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, NDMP, Oracle ACSLS, IBM DAS/ACI, Microsoft Exchange Server, DB2, Informix, MySQL, Lotus Domino, and Teradata.

OCILIB

OCILIB is an open source and cross platform Oracle C library that delivers fast and reliable access to Oracle databases.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator and Sun's Java).

Oracle LogMiner

Oracle LogMiner, a utility provided by Oracle Corporation to purchasers of its Oracle database, provides methods of querying logged changes made to an Oracle database, principally though SQL commands referencing data in Oracle redo logs.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.

PhpCodeGenie

It can communicate with multiple databases such as: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MaxDB, Visual FoxPro, FrontBase, InterBase, Firebird, Informix, LDAP, Netezza, SAP DB, Sybase, and generate code from them.

Stratford University

Certification Courses including Oracle, MSCE, .Net Framework, Cisco, Linux, and computer security-related topics for students and IT professionals.

Thomas Kurian

He is responsible for development and delivery of Oracle’s software product portfolio including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and ERP, CRM, and supply chain management applications.

Virtual lab automation

For instance, a configuration could consist of multiple Windows Vista client machines, an Oracle database server and a WebSphere application server.

Whittman-Hart

In 1999 the company acquired Fulcrum Solutions Ltd, a UK-based Oracle technology specialist and, shortly afterwards US Web/CKS, a California-based web consulting firm, after which Bob Bernard decided to rename the business marchFIRST, inc., the business was re-corporated on March 1, 2000.