Master all the powerful features of Oracle9i using the exclusive information inside this indispensable resource. Written by best-selling Oracle Press authors Kevin Loney and George Koch, this volume explains how to implement all the components of Oracle9i. This is a must-have reference for all Oracle professionals.Table of Contents: PART I: Critical Database Concepts 1: Sharing Knowledge and Success 2: The Dangers in a Relational Database 3: The Basic Parts of Speech in SQL 4: The Basics of Object-Relational Databases 5: Introduction to Web-Enabled Databases PART II: SQL and SQL*PLUS 6: Basic SQL*PLUS Reports and Commands 7: Getting Text Information and Changing It 8: Playing the Numbers 9: Dates: Then, Now, and the Difference 10: Conversion and Transformation Functions 11: Grouping Things Together 12: When One Query Depends upon Another 13: Some Complex Possibilities 14: Building a Report in SQL*PLUS 15: Changing Data: insert, update, merge, and delete 16: Advanced Use of Functions and Variables 17: DECODE and CASE: if, then, and else in SQL 18: Creating, Dropping, and Altering Tables and Views 19: By What Authority? 20: Changing the Oracle Surroundings 21: Using SQL*Loader to Load Data 22: Accessing Remote Data 23: Using Materialized Views 24: Using Oracle Text for Text Searches 25: Using External Tables 26: Using Flashback Queries PART III: PL/SQL 27: An Introduction to PL/SQL 28: Triggers 29: Procedures, Functions, and Packages PART IV: Object-Relational Databases 30: Implementing Types, Object Views, and Methods 31: Collectors (Nested Tables and Varying Arrays) 32: Using Large Objects 33: Advanced Object-Oriented Concepts PART V: Java in Oracle 34: An Introduction to Java 35: JDBC and SQLJ Programming 36: Java Stored Procedures PART VI: Hitchhiker?s Guides 37: The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Oracle9i Data Dictionary 38: The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Oracle Optimizer 39: The Hitchhiker?s Guide to Oracle9iAS 40: The Hitchhiker?s Guide to Database Administration 41: The Hitchhiker?s Guide to XML in Oracle PART VII: Alphabetical Reference